Question

USA anexxed land of Mexico why

Answer 1

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Now that’s one great big land grab, especially compared to the much smaller land grab involving Crimea.

Moreover, at least Crimea had once been part of Russia. The same can’t be said of the northern half of Mexico. That gigantic land grab was an out-and-out stealing of another country’s territory.

The U.S. government had tried to take the Mexican land peacefully and legally by offering to buy it from Mexico. The response of the Mexican government was: No, thank you. Our country is not for sale.

So, the U.S. government decided to simply steal the land — that is, take it away from Mexico by force. Since the United States was a much more powerful country militarily, the forcible annexation of the Mexican land would be no more a problem than the annexation of Crimea was to Russia.

However, the U.S. government decided that it wouldn’t look too good if it did what Russia recently did with Crimea — that is, send U.S. troops to invade Mexico and simply declare that the northern half of the country now belonged to the United States.

So, U.S. officials concocted a nefarious scheme to make their annexation of Mexico appear more palatable. The scheme called for making it look like the Mexican government had started a war with the United States. Then U.S. officials could innocently exclaim, “We’ve been attacked! We’re innocent! We were just minding our own business! We must now, reluctantly, go to war to defend ourselves from this dastardly attack.”

Then, once the war was won, the United States could claim the lands that Mexico had refused to voluntarily sell as a prize of war.

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Answer 2

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Reasons :
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1)The primary causes of the Mexican-American War were mainfest destiny, westward expansion, economics, and slavery.
2) Throughout the nineteenth century, Americans believed in manifest destiny, asserting that it was the United States' right to expand westward and conquer territory despite the rights of the indigenous people already residing on the land.
3) In the election of 1844, presidential nominee James K. Polk promised to re-annex Texas if he was elected President. Following the campaign, newly elected President Polk adopted the same policy of his predecessor, John Tyler, and aimed to annex Texas and other territories in the West.
4)In addition, several American citizens previously settled in Texas since they believed the United States would eventually annex the territory.
5)By settling in Texas, these individuals planned to sell their land at higher prices to Americans once the territory became part of the United States.
6) Additionly, the settlers were able to profit from trade opportunities in the West. Another cause of the war was slavery.
7)American citizens in the south wished to gain more "slave states" in order to increase their political power.
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