After reading Miguel and Valencia’s “From the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo to Hopwood,” I was shocked to find how Mexican Americans were treated in American students. I was expect poor treatment from our discussions in class as well as other readings, but after reading what the authors reported, including schools failing to address learning issues and pushing kids instead into economic mobility, I am deeply troubled I was not made aware of this sooner. Along with segregation on race basis, I would argue the struggles of Mexican American students was the greatest struggle for education equality in the 20th century, though the struggles gone through by other minorities surely should be discounted or overlooked. I found the role of religious institutions
Insert Name: Taylor Insert Teacher Names :Mrs. Taigen, Mrs. Keithley Insert Subjects Social Studies and language Insert Date: The Mexican American War “Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government.” (Polk 1795) In the year of 1821, Mexico gained its independence from Spain. It was a rough time period because wars were raging, in every country.
With presidents Martin Van Buren and William Henry Harrison both during these time periods we would see diplomatic ties with the US by Sir Andrew Jackson. This motive will later lead to a war with Mexico if political individuals proceed to try to achieve power of Texas. Which in result from the text we learn that Mexico tries to take over Texas and the US would respond with aggressive actions forcing the US and Mexico to declare war at the time for the annex of Texas. When the United States pushed to purchase Texas and Mexican California, we see that their attempt did not prevail whilst Mexico views this as an insult. Polk would act and ordered men to “take a bold, firm course towards Mexico.”
He maintained these benefits to be the paramount goal of westward expansion, and affirmed they would be acquired regardless of the state’s political stance. So, it can be discernibly surmised that the Mexican-American war expedited the American’s notion of conquering Texas and growing as a nation; that the bulk of this geographical growth was attained from the South; in which they hoped to earn a large sum of lands in order to utilize as farms that would be soon packed with slave labor. Most notably, the war indeed fabricated a social and geographical divide between the North and South because there was a raging debate over the land’s political status, and whether new lands are to be admitted as free or slave states. The Missouri Compromise originally settled this dispute by having all land from the Louisiana Purchase above Missouri free states and everything below it to be slave states. But new land from the Mexican-American war compelled the question again, free or slave?
The current war being held between the United States and Mexico is not only unjust, but it is also another example of the Anglo Saxon need for possessions, and love of sovereignty. I as a former slave know all too well of this American love of supremacy, I was once shackled myself by the tyranny of slavery. I believe now Mexico may be America’s next victim of oppression, I fear that they may suffer the same fate as the slaves in America, when Mexico indisputably loses this war against America’s insatiable ambition for land. It can not be denied that President Polk has enticed Mexico into this War, with his unnecessary acts of aggression, such as his release of troops to the Mexican Border. It can be concluded that President Polk's and the
“Come! Come! Come over it is good here,” was the gospel from Mexicans who had crossed the border who were spreading the word of opportunity to those back in their homeland. (312) In Chapter 12, Takaki shines a light on the Mexicans once again, this time focusing on the post-Mexican Revolution and post-treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
The American, Mexican, and French revolutions were similar and different in their own ways. There was a common cause, goal, and effect of each of these three revolutions in addition to the unique causes, goals, and effects. All of these revolutions were caused by political instability, had the common goal of political reformation that was met through revolutionary events, that resulted in the formation and adoption of a new constitution and form of government. There were many causes that led up to these three revolutions, some are shared by all three, some only by two, and some are unique causes. All three of these revolutions were caused by political instability in the country these revolutions took place in.
The video The Mexican-American War was interesting to watch. I understand that any country would like to extend its territories, but I think President Polk should not have gone to the extreme of war. I really like how in the video, the U.S. was portrayed as a bully, who technically forced Mexico to give up its territory, something that was, in my opinion, not fair at all. Besides this, I absolutely agreed with the idea of none of the countries winning due to the amount of casualties. It is true that the U.S. “won” the war and got the territory it wanted, but at what cost though?
Since its establishment and even in the present, the United States’, specifically (and it is not secret), white population has been a fraction of society drenched with a feeling of superiority over its foreign or unfamiliar counterparts. Situations such as the first British citizens that sailed to the colonies insisting that the Native Americans’ way of life was “wrong” and “savage-like” or the literal proclamation that Africans were inferior to the white man served as justification for the allowance of the U.S. to be able to did what it had done and been doing for years. The Mexican-American war was no different as once again Americans (whom at this time only referred to white men essentially) demonstrated their entitlement to take what they felt was not being put to good use.
The first half of the nineteenth century was a period of successful expansion for the United States. American hunger for westward expansion resulted in several and political disputes between the United States and Mexico. Americans believed in the Manifest Destiny as an act to spread across from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean to seek for wealth and land . Tensions sparked when the American settlers encountered an obstacle with the indigenous tribes against the annexation of Texas along with various frontier states in Mexico. Primary causes of the Mexican-American War were the Louisiana Purchase, the Manifest Destiny, and the Texas Annexation.
Although the Mexican Government did not declare war on the U.S, on May 13, 1846 the U.S declares war on the Mexican Government with expensive aftermath. The Mexican War became the first war to to be fought outside of its borders. It added half a million square miles of territory to the U.S, it all started because of northern political interests of a new slave state, Texas. Texas gained its independence from Mexico in 1836, though the Mexican Government encouraged border raids and any type of takeover meant war. 1844, President Polk was not only for re-annexing Texas, but had set his eye on New Mexico, Oregon, and California.
INTRODUCTION Throughout the 1840s and 1850s a major war happened called the Mexican American War which drastically changed the U.S. and Mexico and lead to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo to be signed and which established the Rio Grande and not the Nueces River as the U.S Border. This also lead to the U.S. annexation of Texas and lead to the Mexico agreeing to sell California and the rest of the territory for 15 million. So you 're probably wondering why the war was fought but you 'll find that out later.
Between 1830 and 1860, Manifest Destiny and territorial expansion did more to divide America than it did to unite. While it was not the main for the divide of America that was shown in the South’s secession from the United States, it brought up many issues that ultimately led to the Civil War. These issues are shown in the annexation of Texas, the Mexican-American War that resulted from that, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Until 1836, the area of Texas was controlled by the Republic of Mexico and was a distant and irrelevant piece of land in most American’s minds. A few Americans had emigrated there from the South at the invitation of the Mexican government, but not many.
The Mexican-American War changed the Unites States of America in a monumental way. This war changed The U.S.A.’s relationship with foreign powers and the economic standpoint of the nation. The Mexican- American war, and its strong ties to manifest destiny, shaped the nation in a country bordered by two seas with a chance for common folk and foreigners to have a sustainable life due to the gold rush. The war can also be accounted for the downfall leading to the Civil War over the conflict of slavery due to the land purchased in the wars treaty. Conflict between Mexico and the United States began when Texas, previously part of Mexico, became part of the United States.
The United States war with Mexico continues to be a divisive topic among many people because of its background. The Mexican-American war was a fight between Mexico and America for land. America’s belief at the time was Manifest Destiny, which meant that they believed that America should extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific ocean. In the end, America benefited from the war and got the land. The United States expanded its size, achieving their dream of Manifest Destiny.
