american history?

Question

when did the mexican war start? this crap is so hard to find!

Answer 1

It started in 1846 and it ended in 1848. We fought it because the mexicans wanted TX for them.

This is the conclusion to the war by Wikipedia:
Mexico lost more than 500,000 square miles (1,300,000 square km) of land, almost half of its territory. The war also elicited a sense of national unity in Mexico, which had been lacking since the end of the independence movement in 1821.

The war also led to the emergence of a new class of politicians in Mexico who managed to break Santa Anna's grip over Mexico and eventually proclaimed a liberal republic in 1857. One of the first acts of the republic was the enactment of several laws that facilitated and propelled the colonization of the vast and sparsely populated northern Mexican states, so as to avoid further territorial losses.

The annexed territories contained about 1,000 Mexican families in California and 7,000 in New Mexico. A few moved back to Mexico; the great majority remained and became U.S. citizens.

A month before the end of the war, Polk was criticized in a House of Representatives amendment to a bill praising Maj. General Zachary Taylor for "a war unnecessarily and unconstitutionally begun by the President of the United States." This criticism, in which Congressman Abraham Lincoln played an important role, followed congressional scrutiny of the war's beginnings, including factual challenges to claims made by President Polk[3] [4]. The vote followed party lines, with all Whigs supporting the amendment. Lincoln's attack damaged his political career in Illinois, where the war was popular, and he did not run for re-election.

In much of the United States, victory and the acquisition of new land brought a surge of patriotism (the country had also acquired the southern half of the Oregon Country in 1846 through a treaty with Great Britain). Victory seemed to fulfill citizens' belief in their country's Manifest Destiny. While Whig Ralph Waldo Emerson rejected war "as a means of achieving America's destiny," he accepted that "most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means." Although the Whigs had opposed the war, they made Zachary Taylor their presidential candidate in the election of 1848, praising his military performance while muting their criticism of the war itself.

The war had been widely supported by Democrats, and opposed by Whigs. Many Northern abolitionists attacked the war as an attempt by slave-owners to expand slavery and assure their continued influence in the Federal government. Henry David Thoreau wrote his essay Civil Disobedience and refused to pay taxes to support the war. Former president John Quincy Adams also expressed his belief that the war was an effort to expand slavery. In 1846, Democratic Congressman David Wilmot introduced the Wilmot Proviso to prohibit slavery in any new territory acquired from Mexico. Wilmot's proposal did not pass, but it sparked further hostility between the factions.

In the 1880s, Ulysses S. Grant, who had served under Scott's command, called the conflict an evil war that had brought God's punishment on the United States in the form of the American Civil War:

The Southern rebellion was largely the outgrowth of the Mexican war. Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. We got our punishment in the most sanguinary and expensive war of modern times. [3]

Many of the generals of the latter war had fought in the former, including Grant, George B. McClellan, Ambrose Burnside, Stonewall Jackson, James Longstreet, George Meade, and Robert E. Lee, as well as the future Confederate president, Jefferson Davis.

In Mexico City's Chapultepec Park, the Monument to the Heroic Cadets commemorates the heroic sacrifice of six teenage military cadets who fought to their deaths rather than surrender to American invaders during the Battle of Chapultepec Castle on September 18, 1847. The monument is an important patriotic site in Mexico. On March 5, 1947, nearly a hundred years after the battle, U.S. President Harry S. Truman placed a wreath at the monument and stood for a moment of silence.

Answer 2

Texas separated from Mexico by force in 1836, and established the Republic of Texas. Although General Santa Anna agreed to the loss - after all he was captured at the Battle of San Jancinto - Mexico never accepted that Texas was lost. Difficulties arose about where the southern border was between Texas and Mexico. After TX became a state, the border issue really heated up and diplomacy failed to reach an agreement. After the war, the border between TX and Mexico was established as the Rio Grande River and current border of what is now southern New Mexico and Arizona. All this should be in your American History book

Answer 3

The war arose from the competing claims to Texas by Mexico and the United States in the wake of the U.S. annexation of Texas in 1845. Mexico had always refused to recognize the loss of Texas in 1836 and announced its intention to take back what it considered a rebel province. In the United States, the war was a partisan issue, supported by most Democrats and opposed by most Whigs. In Mexico, the war was considered a matter of national pride.

Answer 4

1846-1848 territory expansion plan texas already accepted 'annexed' mexican leader didnt want there to be furthur land claim fighting ensued google it darling much much more information

Answer 5

1846-1848

Answer 6

May 13th, 1846