'The Mexican-American War, Were We Justified\r'

'The Mexican-American state of war was a contend between the unite States and Mexico which lasted from April 1846 to February 1848. It stemmed from the United States annexation of Texas in 1845 and from a battle oer whether Texas ended at the Nueces River (Mexican claim) or the Rio Grande (U. S. claim). The fight was the most devastating resultant in Mexican history, where Mexico lost the in advance(p) day areas of California, Arizona, tonic Mexico, Nevada, Colorado and Montana. The Mexican-American spawned issue of land lust. The idea of Manifest good deal and the promising lands of California, which were coveted by many an(prenominal) European nations, led to a fight of greed.Even Abraham Lincoln, then a young Congressman, and Ulysses S. Grant, the future(a) Civil contend victorious commandant and U. S. President, believed that the invasion of Mexico was not justified. Mexico had rejected a $15 million cash-for-land deal offered by the US. The area included what now covers the states of California, Arizona, New Mexico and parts of Colorado and Utah. This territory was Mexican, only when only nominally; control over the area was slight, and open to intrusion. Irritated at the rebuff, the US struck back in1845 by annexing Texas, a territory long gainsay and fought over by both countries.Mexico responded by severing diplomatic relations. U. S. President Polk just provoked Mexico by moving troop south to the Rio Grande, a river that historically was considered puff up within Mexico. U. S. and Mexican troops skirmished across the river, leading Polk to declare to Congress on May 11, 1846, that â€Å"…the cup of forbearance has been exhausted,” and that â€Å"American blood has been spilled on American soil. ” (Source: Eisenhower’s So Far From God, pages 49-55) The U. S. -Mexican fight is the important chapter in the history of North America.It is the war that sealed the fates of its two participants. For the United States, the War garnered huge amounts of territory and wealth, bootstrapping the fledgling majority rule onto the world stage. For Mexico, the War sent the emerge nation into a tailspin that it is cool off reckoning with today, one hundred cubic decimeter years later. In the United States the US-Mexican War is virtually forgotten, and for good reason, as it is the clearest mannequin of American greed and undiplomatic actions. The Mexican-American War was waged upon Mexico out of pure greed and hack for international liberty.In conclusion, the United States was unjust in its declaration of war on Mexico in 1846. The U. S. was clouded with dreams of Manifest Destiny. It had a hot seat that was obsessed with fulfilling campaign promises and greed for naked land. Polk was looking for revenge for the denial of the scheme for buying California as was unpatterned in his original reasons for declaring war on Mexico. Also the U. S. provoked this border junk into the two-year war t hat it became by on purpose inciting the Mexicans into a fight. All these reasons are the order that the US was not justified in declaring war on Mexico.\r\n'