MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
THE MEXICAN AMERICAN WAR
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Mexicans, unhappy with the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, will come back to seek revenge against America.
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The vast territories acquired after the war will be difficult to control and offer little or no reward for the nation.
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The issue of slavery in the new territories will once again threaten to tear the nation apart.
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Newly conquered peoples in the Mexican Cession will demand equal rights and liberty; thereby, leading to rebellion in the area.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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-3: -Therefore, in a Mexican view point, the war was not a result of greed or arrogance but a consequence to defend Mexico’s territory from U.S invasion. And thus, the Mexicans would call this war as “The U.S War against Mexico”. During the 1840s, many Americans had the idea of a “manifest destiny” craved into their heads.
Detailed explanation-4: -On May 12, 1846, the United States Senate voted 40 to 2 to go to war with Mexico. President James K. Polk had accused Mexican troops of having attacked Americans on U.S. soil, north of the Rio Grande. But Mexico claimed this land as its own territory and accused the American military of having invaded.