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A 5 page paper discussing the Mexican-American war. The war that Americans refer to as the Mexican-American war is referred to even today in Mexico as "the Mutilation." It played a significant role in leading the United States into civil war, and also gave new US commanders real battle experience to take into that war. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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File: CC6_KShistMexAmW.rtf
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of the Mexican government, settlers had been moving into Texas in large numbers in the early 19th century. The number of immigrants into Texas eventually became quite alarming to
the Mexican government, leading it to limit further immigration from the United States. This action was in 1830; Santa Ana handed American rebels a sound defeat at the Alamo
in 1836. Rather than allowing this defeat to be the end of the issue, Texans rose once again to defeat the Mexican army and win Texas independence later that
same year. Texas statehood in 1845 incensed the Mexicans, and skirmishes along the protested border led to war. Events elsewhere in the
United States were leading the country inexorably to civil war, and the territory gained as a result of the Mexican-American war was inflammatory on several fronts. Americas first war
as an established nation and the first outside the country gained relatively little attention in the shadow of the events leading to the Civil War. Politics
Mexicos government was a revolving door of various dictators, and except for Santa Anna, none of them could hold power for very long at a time.
Santa Anna had been dictator prior to the war, but was forced into exile with the Gadsden Purchase. The military was fairly permanent, as well as being well practiced
as a result of the political instability within Mexico. As stated, the US was embroiled in the slavery issue and at the same
time was wrestling with the "manifest destiny" concept in which those subscribing to the idea believed it was Americas destiny to stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific.1 Santa
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