Gisselle Islas Period 8 October 27, 2015 Was the US Justified in Going to War with Mexico? When one starts a fight with you, what’s your response to it? Do you just stand there? No you have to fight back and defend yourself and that is what U.S. did with Mexico when they had attacked our troops for going into disputed land, not the Mexican’s but disputed land. The United States was Justified in Going to War with Mexico because of Manifest Destiny, Expansion of the US economy, and By the Mexican Attack on the US army. The US was Justified in going to war with Mexico because of Manifest Destiny. Manifest Destiny was a doctrine or a belief during the 19th century and it was a destiny for the Americans to expand the United States and bring their traditions, the Americans said that it was “Our God’s given right” to do that. To start the expansion, the congress had decided to vote to Annex Texas. What the Annexation of Texas is …show more content…
When Polk had decided to send our American troops to the disputed land, the Mexicans went and attacked us. In Document B, President Polk wrote to the Senate and House of Representatives. “...dispatched from the American camp up the Rio del Norte, on its (North) bank, to ascertain whether the Mexican troops had crossed, or were preparing to cross, the river...” so right here he’s saying that they are trying to figure out if they were going to cross the territory that was annexed to the US but according to Mexico that was not the boarder and they were “crossing” so then they went and attacked and this is what Polk said about the attack “(They) became engaged with a large body of these (Mexican) troops, and, after a short affair, in which some sixteen (Americans) were killed and wounded, appear to have been surrounded and compelled to surrender...” so right here he explains that the troops were attacked by the mexicans. America had the right to go and