MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
THE MEXICAN AMERICAN WAR
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War of 1812
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War of the Roses
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Civil War
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Their transfer to the United States’ control also cut the territorial size of Mexico in half. On the surface, the war’s outcome seemed like a bonanza for the United States. But the acquisition of so much territory with the issue of slavery unresolved lit the fuse that eventually set off the Civil War in 1861.
Detailed explanation-2: -Many prominent Civil War generals first experienced military combat during the Mexican-American War, including Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson, George Gordon Meade, George McClellan, George Pickett, Joseph E. Johnston, Braxton Bragg, Henry Heth, Winfield Scott Hancock, and most famously Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S.
Detailed explanation-3: -It paved the way for so many other important events, from the expansion and dispossession of indigenous people, the California Gold Rush, and American Civil War. It added the states of California, Texas, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, and parts of Colorado and Wyoming to the United States.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Mexican-American War was a conflict between the United States and Mexico, fought from April 1846 to February 1848.