Mexican and Civil War-Final

The Mexican-American War of 1846-1848, like all wars, occurred because of various historical and political conditions preceding it. One of the biggest concepts leading to the first major conflict between the U.S. and Mexico was the idea of Manifest Destiny. Incorporated within the concept of Manifest Destiny was the ideas that Americans and America had a God-given right to push the borders of the nation from sea to shining sea. This concept would empower Americans and their government with the notion that they could extend their presence and jurisdiction from coast to coast regardless of the sentiments or land-rights of their neighbors to the North or South. After President Jefferson acquired the Louisiana Territory in the early nineteenth century, Americans had continued to migrate west in ever greater numbers. Often this migration saw Americans occupy lands that did not legally belong to the United States. The War of 1812 had sent America on a path of expansion based on an evangelical fervor, “The War of 1812 hastened the growth of a nationalism which warped the American view of her role into a divine mission to evangelize the rest of the world with her one true way…From the beginning of the nation American leaders had cultivated the myth of democratic egalitarianism, and naturally this concept became the cornerstone of the new national religion…America, Americans b

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poses for which it is made…[it has] no reference to slavery; else, how happened it that among the items of arraignment made against George II was that he endeavored to do just what the North has been endeavoring of late to do-to stir up insurrection among our slaves?” (Ruttan 1). Lincoln also admitted that the Founding Fathers seemed to protect the institution of slavery, but his real disagreement with Davis was over the right of states to secede from the Union. He argued that no state existed with rights if it were not a member of the Union, “If one defines a sovereign state as a political community, without a political superior then no one of our States, except Texas ever was a sovereignty and even Texas gave up the character on coming into the Union…Because of this, Lincoln concluded that the states have their status IN the Union, and they have no other legal status” (Ruttan 7). Thus, there were many different issues that helped the North and South move towards Civil War. Different social, political and economic views all compounded to make war between the two inevitable. Slavery and the secession of the States were the final emotional issues that boiled over into all out war. THE MEXICAN WAR – STRATEGY AND WEAPONRY The
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Approximate Word count = 4920
Approximate Pages = 20 (250 words per page)