Reasons Against the War with Mexico
Three reasons not to fight the war with Mexico, and why they were wrong
1. The idea of taking the territory from Mexico espoused by Daniel Webster, and why it was flawed.
2. The use of the word aggrandizement and how it is not entirely accurate, and how his argument needed to focus on prior US mistakes, especially with the Native American people.
3. Daniel Webster, along with other people also objected to Texas joining the Union due to its’ status as a slave state, but this was not due to slavery being evil, so much as it was a socio-economic issue for the North.
4. How the argument against the war was used in conjunction with the belief of “Manifest Destiny”, and how that argument is used as a racial motivation against acquiring the state of Texas.
5. Why the issue of slavery was used as propaganda against the war, and why that argument is more centered on economics, not the idea that slavery was inherently evil.
6. How all these issues relate, and how all of them taken in together gives a totally different perspective of the individuals opposed to The Annexation of Texas.
Thesis Statement The Mexican American war had many arguments espoused both for and against the Annexation of Texas. The reasons against the war are very well articulated and deserve and attention. After a thorough examination of the numerous pros and cons of the war, three of these arguments stand out in particular. These deserve further scrutiny in order to determine their validity.
The issue of slavery, aggrandizement of the United States towards Mexico, and the use of manifest destiny as an ideological form of racism will be addressed in full, along with the rationalizations behind them as viewed in arguments against the war.
Three reasons against the war with Mexico, and why they are wrong
The Mexican American war had numerous argument espoused both for and against the Annexation of Texas. The reasons against the war are very well articulated and deserve attention. However,
1. The idea of taking the territory from Mexico espoused by Daniel Webster, and why it was flawed.
2. The use of the word aggrandizement and how it is not entirely accurate, and how his argument needed to focus on prior US mistakes, especially with the Native American people.
3. Daniel Webster, along with other people also objected to Texas joining the Union due to its’ status as a slave state, but this was not due to slavery being evil, so much as it was a socio-economic issue for the North.
4. How the argument against the war was used in conjunction with the belief of “Manifest Destiny”, and how that argument is used as a racial motivation against acquiring the state of Texas.
5. Why the issue of slavery was used as propaganda against the war, and why that argument is more centered on economics, not the idea that slavery was inherently evil.
6. How all these issues relate, and how all of them taken in together gives a totally different perspective of the individuals opposed to The Annexation of Texas.
Thesis Statement The Mexican American war had many arguments espoused both for and against the Annexation of Texas. The reasons against the war are very well articulated and deserve and attention. After a thorough examination of the numerous pros and cons of the war, three of these arguments stand out in particular. These deserve further scrutiny in order to determine their validity.
The issue of slavery, aggrandizement of the United States towards Mexico, and the use of manifest destiny as an ideological form of racism will be addressed in full, along with the rationalizations behind them as viewed in arguments against the war.
Three reasons against the war with Mexico, and why they are wrong
The Mexican American war had numerous argument espoused both for and against the Annexation of Texas. The reasons against the war are very well articulated and deserve attention. However,
Bibliography: Webster, Daniel. The admission of Texas, December 22, 1845. In The U.S. War with Mexico. Edited by Ernesto Chavez. New York: Bedford/St. Martins, 2008. Ellen DuBois and Lynn Dumenil. Through women’s eyes, an American History. New York: Bedford/St. Martins, 2009. Chavez, Ernesto. The U.S. War with Mexico. New York: Beford/St. Martins, 2008.