- 01/12/2012
- Posted by: essay
- Category: Free essays
The United States of America today is one of the great powers of the modern world. Its power was formed more than one century ago. However, let’s leave politics and economics aside and look at the vast territories of the country. They stretch nearly from the equator to the arctic circle. From East to West – they are in the area of six time zones. In what way formed such immense territory in less than three hundred years? It is an interesting question and we cannot answer that it was an easy way for the country.
The U.S. relationships with its southern neighbor Mexico have been always complicated. Once in the middle of the XIX century, the U.S. captured the Mexican lands in the territory that later emerged California, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada, in those times Mexico was in the interests of the White House. At the beginning of XX century, American troops on several occasions crossed the southern border of states to protect the public interest of the United States. It allows us to look through the history and discuss in details the Mexican War.
Thinking about the Mexican War it is necessary to mention that it was the war between the U.S. and Mexico in the northern Mexican states, in which the Americans acted as aggressors. The cause of the war served the annexation by the United States of a Free State Texas, formed by American settlers in the place of the Mexican state in December 1845.
Plunging into the problem with more details, we should mention that in 1835 the American planters who settled in Mexican Texas, raised in support of the U.S. ruling circles rebellion, announced the secession of Texas from Mexico and in 1836 declared it as “an independent state”. In 1845, Texas was annexed to the United States, despite the fact that the Mexican government had warned in 1843 that it would consider its annexation as a declaration of war against Mexico. In January 1846, the U.S. sent troops to the Mexican territory from the south Texas. The Mexican army has resisted the invaders. Then the U.S. in May 13, 1846 declared war against Mexico. Despite the technical superiority of the U.S. forces, Mexican troops provided them with strong resistance, captured by Americans in the areas of guerrilla war. However, in response to the Mexican government’s attempt to seize on the military part of the wealth of the clergy, clerical property owners reaction organized in February – March 1847 riots in the capital and other cities by providing direct assistance to the invading enemy. The U.S. troops occupied in 1846 and in early 1847 California and much of northern Mexico. In March 1847, Americans landed in the port and began an offensive on the capital of Mexico, which they managed to take in mid-September 1847. Despite the loss of capital and some other cities, the Mexican people continued a guerrilla war, but the rulers were quick to conclude on February 2, 1848 with the U.S. Peace, under which Mexico lost over half of its territory.
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