The end result of the Texas-Mexico War was The Republic of Texas for about 10 years Texas was an independent country.…
Jose Doroteo Arango Arambula better known as Pancho Villa was a Mexican Revolutionary general. He was born June 5, 1878, in Durango, Mexico. When Villa was only sixteen his father passed away and so he became the head and protector of the household. Villa spent most of his life in Durango, Mexico until he killed a man who was harassing his sister. Due to that event, Villa fled and hid in the mountains for several years and changed his birth name to Francisco Villa to evade authorities.…
He was a hard, smart, and commanding general for the Confederates. He was a very tough man and lost his arm, from a cannonball, and still went to the war.…
Stephen F. Austin’s father (Moses Austin) was the original person to pursue a settlement in Texas (which was part of Mexico). In 1821, he had been granted a significant amount of land in the territory, but died shortly after. That was when Stephen F. Austin became the one to move forward with the settlement. It originally attracted 297 US families and continued to grow. By 1830, the Mexican government was greatly concerned with the large population of US citizens moving to Texas, so they closed the border. When this happened, Austin took action to convince Mexico’s President to reopen the border, because many Texan settlers still had families in America who wanted to settle there. The President of Mexico listened to him and did as he asked.…
After being orphaned he was raised by an uncle and studied law. During the early 19th century he was among other things a : lawyer,landowner,commander of the militia in TN. It was during the battle…
Anson Jones was born January 20, 1798 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. In 1820, Jones was licensed as a doctor by the Oneida, New York, Medical Society, and began practicing. However, his practice didn't suceed, and he moved several more times before finally being arrested in Philadelphia by a creditor. He stayed in Philadelphia for a few more years, teaching and practicing medicine, until in 1824 he decided to go to Venezuela.…
His autobiography oddly starts off not in the humble beginnings of a poor sharecropper from Hunt County, Texas. Rather it starts where he was most suited, on the battlefield. Having spent months in Third Infantry Division in N. Africa (Casablanca, Morocco) training for his big break into the war, he finally got it in the form of orders for his Division to participate in the assault on Sicily on July 10, 1943 and eventually into Italy to drive German forces further to the rear. He expressed every emotion of excitement that a young proud warrior would express entering into battle, but soon these emotions would be replaced with coldness and fear. Nevertheless he rose above every emotion to rise to every occasion and do what was needed. During his assault on Sicily and the main Italian peninsula he made his first kill. As two Italian officers attempted to escape on horseback he let off two deadly shots, killing both of them. Having carved great marksmanship skills hunting as a young child and building great work ethic from picking cotton, plowing, and garage work, he had been molded for this specific purpose. Throughout the beginning of this book he has several flashbacks alluding to the foundation of his…
The Spanish American War is simply an abomination of American morals and ideals. Spain and the United States are currently in conflict, as a result of American intervention in Cuba. America has yet again impressed its indomitable will upon fledgling nations, and in this case, one that did not even need “help” especially since it was already under Spanish control, regardless of how relaxed or ineffective that role may have been.…
Hernan Cortes sailed the vast, deep, blue ocean throughout his life, searching for land, money and power. The astonishing leader born in Spain in 1485 developed many armies and navigated through rough terrain. To many people he was respected, although feared a good leader. Hernan Cortes was an accomplished conquistador who improvised leadership by overpowering the Aztecs, which affected the country of Mexico for their language and religion by spreading the culture of Spain to Mexico.…
It was not that long ago the United States went to war with their neighboring country, Mexico. With James K. Polk being elected president of the United States in 1844, things were about to change for Mexico. A war was about to emerge that would make the United States a bigger and better country. Without the economic growth, Mexico lacked a strong Army to defeat the American Army and Navy to keep their land. Mexico would not give up their land without a fight. People believe that the United States had no right to start a war with Mexico and take a huge part of their land. With that being said, President Polk had other plans up his sleeve, a plan to take Mexican land from Texas to California.…
The Spanish American War had a huge impact on American history because of the strength Theodore Roosevelt led with. America was slowly changing from isolationism to imperialism and expansionism. Before his presidency he was a war hero and after his career, he was known for his fairness and intelligent thinking. During President Roosevelt’s career he was beneficial before and after his presidency because of his leadership skills because he stood up for his beliefs.…
The Mexican-American War served as catalyst that channeled the divisions between the North and South and the division within the political parties. The war was fought over American expansion near Mexican territory, which created major tensions that resulted in full blown war in 1846. The war was very controversial because it raised sectional tensions between the different regions within the United States. Many in the North were opposed to the war because they believed it was being fought to expand slavery. Further, some viewed it as unconstitutional; one of the most famous protests was when Henry David Thoreau refused to pay taxes to show his opposition. When the war was finished, there was further division as to what the Unites States should…
James Polk who was president at the time pushed for us to get land from the Mexicans. When Polk sent someone to offer 25 million max to buy it they refused, so he later sent troops under Zachary Taylor to the disputed border of Texas and Mexico. The Mexicans were angered by this and fighting broke out which led Polk to declare war on Mexico. All of the fighting could have been prevented had James Polk and his need of Manifest Destiny taken over. Most Americans supported the war but some in the north thought the south was going to try and make it a slave state and didn’t want that. Many Whigs question if the Mexicans had actually hurt anyone on American soil like Polk said they did. In the end the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo confirmed the annexation…
Over the past hundred years Chicanos had fought bravely for their country. But if you try to look for books or articles about Chicanos in books about Vietnam they are, for the most part, almost absent. They fail to recognize how important Mexican Americans were in this war. They fail to mention that Mexican American soldiers are the most decorated ethnic group in the America. In the bestseller Everything We Had by Al Santoli, though it discusses soldiers in the Vietnam War, not one Chicano is interviewed .…
Webster argued that the war with Mexico and the admission of new states would be horrible. This was his own opinion, but many individuals during this time period felt the way that he did. Webster talks of what the president has his mind set on and how that mindset cannot be changed. This is viewed as a problem that Webster can not get over, he feels that the president should listen to the people and not be caught up in his own mindset. The mindset of the president was one that was given to him by many of the people of the United States, but was it the majority of the people? Webster never discusses this with his readers. This may be for certain reasons; maybe the majority did feel the need for expansion. Webster would have hurt his own argument for him to put that in this article.…