Was The U.S. Justified? Did you know that after the annexation of Texas, The United States was going to continue its path of Manifest Destiny and take over California? Leading up to the Mexican-American War, the war was between the United States and Mexico in 1844. The war started when the United States tried to invade Texas from Mexico. The United States was not justified in going to war with Mexico because Mexico claims that the annexation of Texas was illegal and violated security reasons, the United States straight up attacked Mexico, and the United States broke Mexico’s law by bringing slaves into Mexican land. The United States was not justified because Mexico says that the annexation of Texas was illegal and violated security reasons. Doc C shows that the United States was not justified. …show more content…
The next reason The United States was not justified is that the United States straight-up attacked Mexico. Doc C shows that The United States was not justified. This shows that Mexico was attacked by the United States document C says, “In the eyes of the Mexican government, the mobilization of the US army was an outright attack on Mexico… As a consequence, the Mexican government reaffirmed the instruction to protect the border” This tells us that it wasn’t justified as it says that Mexico was attacked by the United States when Mexico was trying to protect the Texas