The US-Mexican War (1846–48) in School Textbooks: Mexico and the United States in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century: Historical and Multinational PerspectivesRoldán Vera offers an analysis of representations of the US–Mexican War in nineteenth-century Mexican and US history textbooks. ...
In the US war with Mexico(1846–1848), decades of indigenous empire-building in the south-western bor-derlands weakened Mexico’s military and economic ability to defend its terri-tory against the United States. The American Empire drew on these borderlandstruggles to legitimize its invasion and...
Expansionistic fervor propelled the United States to war against Mexico in 1846. The United States had long argued that the Rio Grande was the border between Mexico and the United States, and at the end of the Texas war for independence Santa Anna had been pressured to agree. Mexico, however...
Civil war John J. PershingBrig. Gen. John J. Pershing (center) inspecting a camp during the U.S. Army expedition into Mexico in search of Mexican revolutionary leader Pancho Villa, 1916.(more) In the spring and summer of 1914, the loosely allied rebel forces converged on Mexico City. ...
It didn't take long before Congress and the president would clash over war powers. In 1846, PresidentJames Polkordered the U.S. army to occupy territory in the newly annexed state ofTexas. Congress recognized Polk’s move as a de facto declaration ofwar with Mexico, which claimed the terri...
In 1846, transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau was arrested for refusing to pay the poll tax because of his opposition to slavery and the war with Mexico. In 1849, Thoreau published his essay, "Resistance to Civil Government," in which he advocated for the use of civil disobedience to...
Winfield Scott was an American army officer who held the rank of general in three wars and was the unsuccessful Whig candidate for president in 1852. He was the foremost American military figure between the Revolution and the Civil War. Scott was commiss
The war with the Seminole Indians in Florida continued until the summer of 1842; in 1846 war was declared with Mexico, and the forces of the United States were not withdrawn from that country until July, 1848. Since that time the greater portion of the army has been almost constantly ...
Texas attempted several times to negotiate annexation to the United States and was finally admitted in 1845, which sparked the Mexican-American War in 1846. Mexico ultimately ceded its claim over Texas in 1848, drawing the border at the Rio Grande. Texas followed other Southern states in seceding...
Polk’s policy on the starting of the war with Mexico. He states in a speech before Congress that the war is based on “the sheerest deception…. He [Polk] is deeply conscious of being in the wrong… he feels the blood of this war, like the blood of Abel, is crying to Heaven ...