need help I am studying the mexico and u.s. history for a project
Probably not. Mexico didn't threaten the US. We just wanted the land. We believed God wanted us to have the land.
In the early days of our country, our biggest cash crop was cotton. Cotton was grown in the South under the plantation system, and they used land very wastefully and inefficiently. Plantation owners would acquire a piece of land, and send slaves out to 'girdle' all the trees--cut a ring around the tree in the bark so the trees would die. Then, with the foliage gone from the trees, they'd plant cotton between them. After several years of growing one single crop, the nutrients in the soil would be exhausted and the plantation owners would go off in search of new land.
So the richest and most powerful people in the country were land speculators--one of the richest and most powerful being George Washington himself!
And we had almost this religious idea that God wanted us to expand westward to find new land, to fill the width of the continent. This was called Manifest Destiny. Thomas Jefferson bought the Louisiana Purchase, about the middle third of the continent, and then we coveted the rest of the land to the west, so 40 years later we took that too. More than half of what used to be Mexico--and it was the better half! We forced Spain to sell us Florida, and we even tried to take Cuba and Haiti but weren't successful.
Texas was once a part of Mexico. How do you think that changed?
No we shouldn't have declared war on MX...I agree with senior "Smartypants" - we stole their land.
No, it would take decades to ethnically cleanse a country as large as Mexico.
Should the United States have declared war with Mexico?
need help I am studying the mexico and u.s. history for a project
