The Mexican war was mainly a war that President Polk wanted in effort to obtain more land for the United States. The people who wanted the war were mostly Democrats and Southerners. Southerners supported the war because they were in hope that more land would be acquired meaning more states would be admitted into the union as slave states. For this same reason the Whig Party opposed the war because they were abolitionists. Abolitionists opposed slavery so with the addition of new slave states‚
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got away from England because they had come for many reasons. Their goal is the freedom of religion or whether economic opportunity was the need to target a certain amount of independence from the king. They had all intents and purposes related to some 3‚000 miles away. They had not only willing to owe commitment to the king‚ but also they wanted to pay their fair share of taxes. The result was the spirit of democracy does not exist in the England (Democracy in the colonies‚ n.d). The American colonies
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The war aftermath in South: the former Confederacy presented a sharp contrast to the victorious north. Throughout the south‚ people where emotionally exhausted: many lives had been sharttered.in 1866‚ the state of Mississippi spent a fifth of its annual budget on artificial limbs for confederate soldiers. Property value had collapsed. In the year after the war ended‚ eighty-one plantations in Mississippi where sold for less than a tenth of what they had been worth in 1860. Confederate money was
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Was the Vietnam “War” justified? In 1965‚ 3‚500 United States Marines put boots on the ground in South Vietnam. The Marines being the first United States battle ready troops on the field in a skirmish that had been brewing for years. The comnie government of North Vietnam supported by the Soviet Union and the Chinese was confined in a battle with South Vietnam reinforced with the US in a Cold War proxy fight. The U S had been offering help as well as consultants to the South ever since the beginning
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Waging a living Waging a living is based on four people’s lives on achieving the American Dream and leaving the poor to become a better person financially and overall. The four people in the video are Jean R‚ Jerry L‚ Mary V‚ and Barbara B. All four have interesting stories and many hardships to overcome. The two most interesting moments that struck me in the video were about Jerry. Jerry was homeless at one point and lives paycheck to paycheck. I could not imagine my life depending on my next paycheck
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The colonists of early America wanted to break away from English rule for many reasons. The colonists came to the Americas in the first place to escape religious prosecution‚ but the British government wanted the colonists to realize that they could not depart from their rule. This caused a series of laws to be passed that put the colonials into a difficult situation. The first of the main reasons that the colonists want to separate from the English rule would be the acts that Britain put on the
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War can never be justified. Discuss War. One of the most destructive and futile thing on our planet‚ yet the ambition of war is usually to find peace is it not? Battle tends to start over the love of power; William Gladstone once said "We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace." So therefore is it not correctly speaking by saying that war is needed in order to destroy the love of power that creates such emotions
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Isabel Kliethermes Prof. Paton HIS101/United States History to 1877 6/16/2024 Were the Coercive Acts Tolerable? The Coercive Acts‚ also known as the Intolerable Acts‚ were a series of disciplinary laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774. The Intolerable Acts triggered outrage in the Thirteen Colonies‚ leading to the First Continental Congress and eventually the Revolutionary War. Many argue that rebellion was justified‚ however. Due to the Quartering Act‚ the Administration of Justice Act‚ and
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people were like mules. The colonists that slaughtered hundreds and thousands of Native Americans (oops!) were complaining about their ex girlfriend Britain all the time. They thought they were the victim in every scenario‚ when in reality‚ they were just being ignorant and only cared about themselves! Now‚ there has been a debate (not really) if the colonies were justified in going to several wars with Britain or not‚ and my answer is no. The three main reasons I think that the American colonies
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What if… What if American colonists lost the American Revolution and Great Britain won? If American colonists lost I believe more people would die or put on trial for defying the king. I think the king will send more soldiers to fight for him and to kill the leaders and anyone who defied him. We would have the country that we have today. If Great Britain won we might still be under the rule of a monarch. Although the American colonists lost the American Revolution I believe they would try again
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