President of Mexico

States and Mexico. Going to war differentiated between the people, but in the end a great deal of people paid the price for going to war; Mexico was described as a prize to the United States. There were significant events that led up to the rivalry between the U.S. and Mexico. There was the annexation of Texas that started the controversy with Mexico’s government. The river that divided Texas and the U.S. was the Rio Grande, which was the proper border between them; although Mexico thought…

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is a trade agreement between the states of Canada, Mexico, and the United States. The document was signed in 1992 by the President of the United States George Bush, the President of Mexico, Salinas and the Prime Minister of Canada Mulroney. The United States didn’t sign NAFTA into law until 1993, when Bill Clinton signed the treaty into law. The treaty passed the US House of Representatives by a 234 to 200 and the US Senate by a margin of 60 to 38…

residents attempt to enter America in hopes of getting a job or better place to live. The question to why the numbers of illegal immigrants have been growing exponentially can be answered with a simple explanation: a financially struggling and violent Mexico that has to turned to corporations and the United States for help. However, this comes with a cost. So, why don’t these people immigrate to the United States legally? Because they can’t afford to wait that long. Thousands of other…

inaugurated as President in 1845, he immediately set his sights on extending the U.S.’s borders to Mexico. In 1845 when Texas was annexed into the U.S. there was much debate on its border with Texas claiming it was the Rio Grande while Mexico believed it was the Nueces River. Polk saw that war with Mexico could acquire California and Mexico and sent American troops to the Rio Grande to provoke the Mexicans.In the end, Polk got what he wanted, we gained California, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah.…

war with Mexico. The US was in the leadership of James K. Polk during the Mexican-American War. The United States was not justified in going to war with Mexico because, the US invaded California and Texas, the agreed border of Texas and Mexico after the Texan Revolution was the Nueces river, and the US was being rude and provoking Mexico into going to war. The US's war with Mexico had an interesting background. James K. Polk, the current president, believed in Manifest destiny. Mexico won…

while establishing themselves. America was now no different, and looked to gain greater dominance over their own land. To do this, America took advantage of some world events to secure one piece, but an important piece of their expansion. In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson knowing what was going on the global scale, was able to purchase the single greatest chunk of North America in a single swoop. This purchase was the Louisiana Purchase. The Louisiana Purchase has often been described as the…

Drugs and Crime in Mexico Drugs and crime in Mexico has been risen very quickly. Mexico has become the focus of a great attention due to the concern of violence related to drug trafficking. Since the mexican president Felipe Calderon declared “war” on drug traffickers, an estimated of 22,000 people have died in drug-related violence. In the early twenty-first century, the mexican government attempt to stop the activity of drug cartels, but the result has been an uncontrolled violence. The…

MEXICO GEOGRAPHY & TOPOGRAPHY Located at the border of the USA and south east to Gutemala is Mexico. Mexico is the 13th largest country in the world. Mexico is over 700 thousand square miles. With it being at least one fifth the size of the USA, Mexico has a population of 120 million people. Mexico can be partitioned into nine topographic locales: the Mexican Plateau, the Sierra Madre Oriental, the Sierra Madre Occidental, the Cordillera Neo-Volcánica, the Gulf Coastal Plain, the Pacific…

though it was not time wise part of this war, it can definitely be seen as an event that helped build momentum and fuel towards the confrontations what were to come between Mexico and the United States. The Spanish-American War, on the other hand came many decades after the Mexican-American War. This war did not involved Mexico at the least but instead it was a dispute between the United States and Spain. The Mexican-American War began in April 25th, 1846. This was the date in which both armies…

The United states and Mexico were two states had very different sentiments. The United States was mostly Protestant, pro-slavery, and greatly ignored Mexican jurisdiction. Mexico was the total opposite, being Catholic, anti-slavery, and wanted to keep Texans under their control. Theses differences played part in what made the tensions between these two states so great. The topic of document A is “Annexation.” It is an article from “The United States Magazine and Democratic Review” written in…