I Am America. Hear Me Roar.

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Term Paper Title	I Am America. Hear Me Roar.
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I Am America. Hear Me Roar.
Flexing our muscles at Mexico!

     With the annexation of Texas by the government of the United States
of America, war with Mexico seemed to be inevitable. Yet was it really?
Historians then and today question Polk’s motives on declaring war, and
whether or not blood had to be shed at all for us to get what we wanted. True,
the war was one of aggression and territorial glorification between two
relatively new nations who had fought and won their freedom from respective
foreign nations and were perhaps equaled in pride and determination.
However, I do not believe that the U.S. entered into the ordeal entirely
unprovoked, and anything provoked is likewise justifiable.  Right from the
start, the President of the United States, James K. Polk, took the stand that
“all of the U.S.’s military and naval movements shall be strictly defensive,
and that we will not be the aggressor upon Mexico; but if her army shall
cross the Rio Grande and invade Texas . . .surely we are bound to giver her
(Texas) aid in her own defense.” 1 Polk hoped desperately to settle matters
peacefully, but was determined to have his way by war if necessary.
     And indeed it was Mexico, in open defiance towards the hated
American government and army, that insighted the rebuke by U.S. forces.  At
the time, boundary rights were bitterly disputed between the United States
and Mexico. As a country, our goal was to “adjust a permanent boundary
between Mexico and the United States.”2
It appeared that whether or not the border was the Rio Grande or the Rio
Nueces was the question most often fought over, and also that how could you
tell if one party had invaded or killed on your land if they don’t even
recognize the same border as you do? Extremist militant Mexican leaders
pushed the buttons of the U.S., until Polk had no chioce but to send in the
troops and make a stand.
     This all started following Texas’ break-away from Mexican rule.  For
nearly ten years the Republic of Texas was an independant country, and was
recognized by many foreign nations. However, Mexico refused to acceptthe
loss of Texas, considering it to still be Mexican territory that was simply
under the  temporary rule of a rebel government. So of course they wouldn’e
accept the terms offered by the United States in the annexation of Texas in
1845. “Congress doth consent that the . . . Republic of Texas may be erected
into a new state, to be called the State of Texas, with a republican form of
government, to be...

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