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Why the Mexican and American war began
The Mexican and American war began because In 1845 a argument over whether Texas ended at the Nueces River which was a Mexican claim or the Rio Grande which was U.S. claim. The war in which U.S. forces were consistently winning resulted in the United States gaining position of more than 500,000 square miles of Mexican territory extending westward from the Rio Grande to the Pacific Ocean. -
John Slidell on his secret mission
Mexico severed relations with the United States in March 1845, shortly after the U.S. annexation of Texas. In September U.S. Pres. James K. Polk sent John Slidell on a secret mission to Mexico City to negotiate the doubt Texas border, settle U.S. claims against Mexico, and purchase New Mexico and California for up to $30 million. -
War message
On May 9, 1846, Polk began to prepare a war message to Congress. To justify unfriendliness on the grounds of Mexican refusal to pay U.S. claims and refusal. To negotiate with Slidell. -
aproving the declaration of war
On May 13, 1846 Congress overwhelmingly approved a declaration of war but the United States entered the war divided. Democrats, especially those in the Southwest, strongly favoured the problem. Most people viewed Polk’s motives as the inner sense of what is right or wrong land grabbing. -
doubters of dishonesty.
In December 1846 Polk accused his moving fastly doubters of dishonesty. In January 1847 the moving fastly people controlled house voted 85 to 81 to censure Polk. For having “unnecessarily and wrongful war with Mexico. -
challenging challinges
In December 1847 among the most challenging challenges to the law of Polk’s cause was that offered by future president Abraham Lincoln, then a first term member of the House of Representatives from Illinois. Then Lincoln introduced eight “Spot Resolutions,” which placed the the separating of the material of Polk’s claim in a carefully laid out historical context that sought. -
The war
When war broke out in 1847, former Mexican president and general Antonio López de Santa Anna (the vanquisher of the Texan forces at the Alamo in 1836) contacted Polk. The U.S. president arranged for a ship to take Santa Anna from his native land in Cuba to Mexico for the purpose of working for peace. Instead of acting for peace, but, on his return, Santa Anna took charge of the Mexican forces. -
united states sending an army
On February 1847 Following its original plan for the war, the United States sent its army from the Rio Grande, under Taylor, to invade the heart of Mexico while a second force, under Col. Stephen Kearney, was to occupy New Mexico and California. Kearny’s campaign into New Mexico and California encountered little resistance, and the residents of both provinces appeared to accept U.S. activity with a minimum of resistance. Meanwhile, Taylor’s army fought several battles south of the Rio Grande, ca -
polk assigned Nicholas Trist
On February 2, 1848 Polk had assigned Nicholas trist, chief clerk in the State Department, to accompany Scott’s forces and to negotiate a peace treaty. But after a long delay in the formation of a new Mexican government capable of negotiations, Polk grew impatient and recalled Trist. Trist, however, disobeyed his instructions and signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. -
Zachary Taylor a notional hero
in 1849 Zachary Taylor emerged as a national hero and succeeded Polk as president . The war reopened the slavery extension issue. Which had been largely lying asleep since the Missouri settled of differences.
