The Mexican American War

1. Why did many Northern Americans like Lincoln oppose the war with Mexico (before the War)?

2. What was the well-known new social-political-religious myth/idea/revelation used by President James Polk to keep expanding Westward?

3. What did American generals (like Scott, Taylor, and Grant) accuse other American combatants of doing in Mexico?

North Americans oppose the war with Mexico because they were suffering an earthquake. Texas was not the reason for the war, they tried to recover texas.

President James Polk

American blood was shed on American Soil

Andrew Jackson said they will always find a opprtunity to defend our country

The bandit was from a novel that a cherokee native wrote when he moved to California. They were bandits because they were trying to recover the land. They were different from an organized court. Zorro was a manipulation of the real story

1.North Americans opposed war with mexico because they feared that the aquisition of southwest territories would encourage the exapnsion of territories

2.The Manifest Destiny was the belif that the United States was destine to expand westward.

3.They accused each other of not properly adhering to military conduct, violence against civilians, and excessive looting.