Mexico_War

Mexico War U.S. Mexico War This paper will examine the United States-Mexico War by analyzing the economic and ideological factors, as well as taking into consideration the international events that occurred during that period. These three elements and their implications are key to not only understanding the event, but also its aftermath. After a large period of economic growth the United States was in a position to take advantage of Mexico’s struggling economy after years of battle for independence against Spain. The United States was also in a position where it felt it had a right to the land. The applied ideals of manifest destiny, the struggling economy in Mexico after the collapse of the Spanish Empire, and the British colonization of countries around the world all marked the events leading into the U.S.-Mexico War. The United States felt it was their divine right and their destiny to expand from ocean to ocean. They justified their conquest through the ideology that those of mixed blood were impure or had no soul. These factors attributed to the belief that the indigenous were savages and “Hispanics” were inferior to those of pure and noble descent. With this notion mexico, united, states, war, spanish, after, great, economy, spain, large, economic, colonies, years, through, metals, land, expand, britain, americas, able, world, resources, position, ports, new, mexico’s, independence, factors, empire, destiny, british, time, ten, take, shipping