destiny.” James K. Polk (the president at the time) wanted to expand America’s western border to the pacific. After the annexation of Texas‚ Mexico became furious and threatened to take Texas back in a powerful way. Polk had about 4000 soldiers guarding Texas while he sent John Slidell to consult with Mexicans to sell both California and New Mexico for $30‚000‚000. Soon Mexico’s president found out about the deal Slidell had in mind and refused to see him. Soon‚ on May 9‚ 1846‚ Polk decided to
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reason to go to war. America was unjustified going to war with mexico because of manifest destiny‚ border dispute and not following the laws of Mexico. Forcing the idea of one religion onto another is unjust‚ but that’s exactly what President James K. Polk did. He believed that it was “God’s plan” for Americans to move west and to pursue the idea of manifest destiny‚ but since most Americans are Christian Lutherans and most mexicans are Catholic he was forcing an idea from his religion onto the
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Texas‚ as well as the rest of the land to the Pacific Ocean. This total expanse attained nearly half of Mexico. Fighting over slavery expansion also occurred on the floors of Congress. In 1846‚ shortly after the violence in Mexico startred‚ James K. Polk requested two million dollars to be appropriated to expand land. Representative David Wilmot of Pennsylvania‚ fearful of the southern “slavocracy”‚ introduced an amendment‚ stipulating that slavery should never exist in any of the territory acquired
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Texas Independence Texans were feeling ok living with Mexicans ruling until some events. Mexico put an end to slavery in 1829. This upset us Texans which hurt the cotton economy. Then General Santa Anna came into power and ruined the constitution of the country. This was said in the Texas Declaration of Independence‚ “General Santa Anna has overturned the constitution of his country...” He executed all the prisoners that he captured from the Siege of The Alamo. Then all the Texans started think
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Was America justified in the Mexican-American war The Mexican-American war stared in 1821 after Mexico won its independence from Spain‚ thus allowing American settlers to move into the newly unoccupied territory. The Victorians of the war‚ were the Americans. After the war came to an end‚ Mexico signed the treaty of Guadalupe hidalgo. In the treaty Mexico agreed to give 500‚000mi to the U.S.‚ while the united states paid Mexico $15 million. There are many different point of views towards the Mexican-American
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Marvels in Manufacturing * War of 1812 prompted a boom of American factories and the use of American products as opposed to British imports. * The surplus in American manufacturing dropped following the Treaty of Ghent in 1815. * The British manufacturers sold their products to Americans at very low prices. * Congress passed the Tariff of 1816 in order to protect the American manufacturers. * 1798-Eli Whitney came up with the idea of machines making each part of the musket
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Document A President Polk (1846) The grievous wrong perpetrated by Mexico upon our citizens throughout a long period of years remain undressed‚ and solemn [claims] treaties pledging her public faith for his redress have been disregarded. A government either unable or unwilling to inforce the execution of such treaties fails to perform one of its plainest duties. Instead of this‚ however‚ we have been exerting our best efforts to propitiate her good will. Upon the pretext that Texas‚ a nation
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EXPLORING THE WEST * No stop to the expansion to the west * 1840‚ Americans occupied all East of the Mississippi River * Less than 60 years after independence‚ most of population lived west THE FUR TRADE * Fur trade boosted exploration on America * Traders & trappers depended on the goodwill of Natives * Oregon Country was the trading place for Natives and Americans * Not until 1820 were Americans be able to challenge British dominance of the trans-Mississippi fur trade
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During the 1830s and 1840s‚ American nationalism and westward expansion had merged into the widespread belief in manifest destiny. Proud of their victories and independence‚ many Americans thought of themselves as the forbearers of freedom. Americans took this idea and ran with it‚ making it their new profound slogan. Manifest Destiny asserted that expansion of the United States throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable; it not only influenced the idea of expanding land
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James K. Polk‚ the president during the Mexican-American War‚ was a strong supporter of Manifest Destiny. “[President Polk] believed it was God’s plan that America extend its territory all the way to the Pacific Ocean” (Roden 317). Manifest Destiny was a popular belief at the time. It is the idea that it was God’s
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