Also the book gives us another perspective about what really happen during the whole Mexican Independence and also how the United States considered itself superior in many ways to Mexico and other Latin American countries. Henderson examines several factors that explain why Mexicans permitted that the United States took its land, apparently he make us think that it was because the United States ambitions to become a powerful nation. I think that this book explains very well the reason why Mexico went to war with the United States and we can conclude that it was because Mexico was suffering very political troubles, also because Mexicans didn’t have the economical resources to success, in other words they were very weak. Finally we can see that even thought there has passed a lot of time since the Mexican and American war happened some struggles still going on in Mexico while the United States ambition still
They believed that Christians had the right to take control over the Non-Christians, since belief was a big control in THEIR life and later on, known as the source of the crime and a war was allowable against the Native Americans because they believed Satan was active in the New World. They believed that they were afraid of evil spirit and worshipped them due to to fear. This thought lead the Europeans to create an image of wildness and savageness onto the natives, and ultimately conveyed “a war against men who are like beast” (The War on Indigenous People,
In 1846 the United States declared war against Mexico. The U.S wanted to spread west and follow Manifest Destiny but in doing that they took Texas away from Mexico. After annexing Texas, slavery was brought into the U.S. The United States under the leadership of President Polk clearly provoked Mexico into attacking US troops on the disputed border. These are all reasons that the U.S had no business starting a war with Mexico for territory that was legally theirs.
During the mid 1800’s many Americans began to have mix feelings over the issue of slavery. Many northern Americans believed that slavery was morally wrong and that it was an evil. Southerners on the other hand believed it was a good for the economy as well as for commerce. This great split of attitudes between the north and the south eventually led to threat of the civil war. The North saw the issue of slavery as an evil.
But do they ever thank us for giving them new land? I am proud to be a patriot; it is the mere notion that we believe in our birth liberties that catalyzes this pursuit for independence. A coup shall rise if we are not given our ultimate freedom. They are hypocrites! Telling us to pledge allegiance to a country which takes “care” of us?
He argued that social development studies showed changes in their social behaviors and their interactions once in their new environment. Thus, he concluded that the new society was uniquely America. He has a very valid argument, but I believe he could have maintained the strength of his argument while also including the fact that the American people coming from British roots, the Puritans, the Royalist elites, the North Midlanders of England and the North British and Irish were still unique as a sub-culture melded together by the choice for religious and economic freedom. The pursuit to own land and accumulate wealth, and not be under the rule of the crown was first and foremost in the early colonists minds. Fisher rests his entire point of view based on the roots of the four British folkways that separated the settlers in America.
As a nation, America should be proud of the first people that lived there, and should embrace Native Americans as a part of our history. However, this has not always been the way that America looks at Native Americans, as this country went through a time in the late 19th century when we wanted to eradicate their entire population, and take all their land for ourselves and our westward expansion. Because of these selfish, inhumane ideas, terrible things like The Trail of Tears happened, and if Indian tribes were not being killed, they were being converted by force. One of the things that suffered along with the Native American cultures and tribes, was their languages. These beautiful, sophisticated
Josephe believed that they had been oppressed as human beings by getting exploited of land, life, and liberty instead of being treated as one of their own. He also drew upon the hypocrisy that lingered in Spanish Catholicism as they began to perform “other superstitious rites, giving the children to understand that they must all do this in the future” to question whether the true motive of the Spanish in converting them was to either changed them into civilized Catholics or simply into resources. Pontiac, the leader of Pontiac’s Rebellion, gave a different look by stating that the Native Americans were not slaves of the white people and had the same needs of white people in which they “could not live without bread and pork and beef!” He concluded that the Native Americans were just like them, only to be manipulated by economic pressures of “guns, knives, kettles, and blankets” that had made them less independent. Despite all of this, the Founding Fathers decided to not include the Native Americans. One reason was that they were portrayed more as unfit animals in which Bartolome de Las Casas noted how “the Spaniards” had “pitilessly called them lazy
Essay 7 Manifest Destiny is something that is incredible to think about and even more incredible to actually learn about. It was a time in the United States when we truly began to see ourselves as a powerful nation. It was to the point where we had gone beyond seeing ourselves as a nation of just people looking for a better way of life; the United States began to see itself as those who were chosen by a higher power to do something great. In the eyes of the people they were chosen to expand and grow. They believed they had a destiny.
/Conversely, imperialistic nations were in a race to advance in power to be able to be stronger than their neighbors. They would go to another nation, set up camp, harvest raw resources, and treat the people of those nations like second class citizens. If they rose up, they put down the uprising with violence. Some used religion as a reason to expand, but ultimately they were out for the same things. They wanted land and resources.