Mexican American War Analysis

Zinn talks about how Polk wants to go to war with Mexico so that we can take their land. Many people oppose this, including Thomas Parker. Parker wants the land, but doesn’t want to gain it by war but rather by better ideas and a welcoming society that would make the Americas desirable. People back home thought this war was unnecessary, they wanted the Americans to be captured and held hostage; with no harm done to their bodies. How the majority of the Americans felt about this war is a social factor because it changed the way neighbors saw and treated each other. It separated many relationships during this war. With this negative mindset of the war, the volunteer rates dropped tremendously; the army had to do something to get the numbers back up to where they need them. They started to force Americans to volunteer to serve in the army. This is also a social factor because by forcing young men to participate it caused even more people to oppose it. When there are
When he sees this he cannot help but to adopt the child; he renames him and tells Rachel that the boy must be taken good care of. For empathy and moral judgement, they saw the boy the same way I believe we would see him today; scared, hopeless, and a possible bright future. Jackson decides to adopt him, but I believe that when we are at war with someone we would not adopt a young boy from there. I’m no military expert but I know that they don’t bring the child home to live with them, no matter how hard that might be. Having Jackson as a great leader was also a political factor. He lead the army into victory and became quite popular, even though there were still many who hated him. With his popularity growing, he was able to successfully run for president. Without him as a leader we might not of won some battles and he most likely wouldn’t of become