How Did Mexican War Wrong In America

Title After the American invasion of Mexico 25,000 people died, lives were overwhelmingly changed, and New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, California, Texas, and western Colorado were taken away from Mexico. Half of what used to be Mexico's land is now America's most valuable land. However the process of getting it was completely inappropriate and beyond unjust. The disrespectful actions taken by American settlers once they moved to Mexico, The beliefs of manifest destiny and feeling of superiority, and pure motivation to expand slavery are all reasons that America had no right in declaring war. Nevertheless, the clash between the two countries was wrong in itself. The tension in Texas was a huge
Some of these rules included learning Spanish, converting to Catholicism and absolutely no slavery since Mexico has long since abolished slavery. According to a letter written by Rafeal Antonio Manchola, a Tejano that was witnessing the horrid acts done by the American settlers in 1826, he states, “They have been using their own colonist as judges and practicing their own laws, forgetting that they swore to obey the laws of Mexico.” Before the Americans were allowed to step foot on Mexican territory they had to promise to the guidelines presented to them and once they moved in they decided to disobey the laws and create conflict. The expectations of the Americans once they moved in were clear and reasonable considering the land's value was very cheap to worth nothing as long as they followed the requirements, which they did not. The new settlers then go on to claim they were treated poorly by Mexico's government and felt unsafe due to the enforcement of putting soldiers in each establishment. As previously stated, Rafael Antonio Manchola wrote a letter addressing the issues in Texas once the 30,000 americans voluntarily moved to Mexico under some
As previously stated mexico wanted nothing to do with slavery as she had already abolished slavery. On the other hand, slavery in america was completely normal and very common. In a pamphlet “ The war in texas in 1836” written by Benjamin Lundy, an anti slavery activist, it states, “ The immideate cause and main goal of this war… has been to grab the large and valuable territory of texas from the mexican republic, in order to re establish the SYSTEM OF SLAVERY…” Not only did america want to spread across northe america but they also had hopes of using that new land to build a bigger slave market. The slave market is a cruel way of demanding labor on a human being and to go to war with a country just to gain more land to exauhst innocent people is insane and beyong unjust. Many people including Joshua Gidding felt that the war was unasked for and wrong. Joshua was a us representative at the time and voted agianst the war; in his explanation why he states, “This war is waged agianst an unoffending people, with out just or aduquate cause, for the purposes of conquest; with the design to extend slavery…” Joshua makes it clear that america wanted to make sure the new land would thrive off of slavery but in all, slavery was the reason the war happened. The reason america was so determind to create war would be