POLK DECLARES WAR ON MEXICO TO GAIN LAND
With Manifest Destiny as his rationale, Polk declared war on Mexico to gain land, as the people of his nation mired in bitter argument over his decisions.
"The United States will conquer Mexico, but it will be as the man swallows the arsenic, which brings him down in turn. Mexico will poison us!"
-Ralph Waldo Emerson on the consequences of war with Mexico
Battle scene from the Mexican War, won easily by the Americans whose military showed its true might on foreign land.
-President Polk shared the view of many fellow countrymen: Mexicans were an "imbecile, pusillanimous race of men, unfit to control...unfit to control the destines of that beautiful country" (Herring 198).
-The Mexican-American War: pivotal and under-appreciated war in U.S. history
-Fought over claims to Texas, but really was the first of a series of imperialist ventures by America
-War aroused many anti-imperialist reactions and questions about the future and slave territories
-The Mexican-American War: pivotal and under-appreciated war in U.S. history
-Fought over claims to Texas, but really was the first of a series of imperialist ventures by America
-War aroused many anti-imperialist reactions and questions about the future and slave territories
