The Mexican-American War

                                                           The Mexican-American War

The Mexican-American war lasted in between 1846-1848. The Mexican-American war was caused by 3 main things. One of them was Manifest Destiny. Manifest Destiny is the belief of the Americans that it was fate and God’s choice to expand west to the Pacific Coast. They felt obligated to expand. They thought they justified it seeing as they won the war. 

Another motivation to war was because of Texas Annexation by the United States. In 1845 the congress had approved and the U.S. annexed Texas, it was acknowledged as the 28^th state in December. They hoped by the incorporation that the republic’s financial and military problems will be resolved. Mexico detested and was furious by this and responded by eliminating all political connections with the U.S. 

The last reason of why the war started was because of Boundary Dispute. Texas and U.S. believed that the Rio Grande symbolizes the southern border of Texas but the Mexican government believed that the real southern border is the Nueces River. They disagreed with each other.
The Mexican-American war is important to west ward expansion because it was a huge part of it. They expanded a lot and grew larger.