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This 4 page paper discusses the causes and effects of the Mexican-American War. It argues that the basic causes were the Westward expansion of the United States and the annexation of Texas; effects include a huge increase in size, but unfortunately, increased tension between the two countries. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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the first war fought mainly for ideological reasons; and it added a great deal of territory to the United States. Discussion Thomas Jefferson and others believed strongly in a doctrine
they called "Manifest Destiny," the idea that "America had a God-given right, or destiny, to expand the countrys borders from sea to shining sea" (Lee, 2008). This desire of the
U.S. to expand "across the North American continent to the Pacific Ocean" is one of the two basic causes of the Mexican-American War (Lee, 2008). After the Louisiana Purchase in
1803, which almost literally doubled the size of the United States overnight, Americans began to move West, "often into lands not belonging to the United States (Lee, 2008). Thus the
idea of "Manifest Destiny" that Jefferson championed also found an advocate in President James K. Polk, who was President at the time of the Mexican-American War. The other main cause
of the war was the "Texas War of Independence and the subsequent annexation of that area to the United States" (Lee, 2008). In the 1820s and 1830s, because its northern
territories were underpopulated, Mexico invited people "who would take an oath of allegiance to Mexico and convert to Catholicism" to settle in the north (Lee, 2008). Many Americans agreed and
moved to what was then the "Mexican province of Texas" (Lee, 2008). Furthermore, they often brought their slaves with them (Lee, 2008). However, these settlers, known variously as "Texicans" or
"Texians," became dissatisfied with the way the Mexican government was running the province, and in 1835, "Texas revolted, and after several bloody battles, the Mexican President, Santa Anna, was forced
to sign the Treaty of Velasco in 1836" (Lee, 2008). (The battle of the Alamo was fought in 1835 in the struggle for independence.) The Velasco treaty made Texas independent
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