MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
THE MEXICAN AMERICAN WAR
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Proponent
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Opponent
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Mexico will poison us.” He was openly against the war and thought that the spectacle of it all had sucked the country into a dangerous state of delirium.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Mexican-American War was a conflict between the United States and Mexico, fought from April 1846 to February 1848.
Detailed explanation-3: -Ralph Waldo Emerson, an outspoken critic, predicted ominously at the beginning of the conflict, “We will conquer Mexico, but it will be as the man who swallows the arsenic which will bring him down in turn.
Detailed explanation-4: -On January 13, 1846, Polk ordered American forces into deeply disputed territory. In April, an army of approximately 4, 000 men lead by General Zachary Taylor entered the Nueces Strip, a contested territory that Mexico and many Americans regarded as never having been a part of Texas.