Mexican War

noun

the war between the U.S. and Mexico, 1846–48.

Mexican War

noun

the war fought between the US and Mexico (1846–48), through which the US acquired the present-day Southwest

Mexican War

A war fought between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848. The United States won the war, encouraged by the feelings of many Americans that the country was accomplishing its manifest destiny of expansion. Mexico renounced all claims to Texas north of the Rio Grande and yielded a vast territory that embraces the present states of California, Nevada, and Utah, and parts of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Wyoming.

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Many generals of the Civil War, including Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee, gained experience in battle during the Mexican War. The Mexican War was opposed by many Americans, notably by the author Henry David Thoreau, who was put in jail for refusing to pay a tax to support the war. His essay “Civil Disobedience” explains the principles of his action.

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Trump admires not just McKinley, but he also has, apparently, a portrait of James Polk, who was responsible for the Mexican War and the annexation of large amounts of lands from Mexico.

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We provoked the Mexican War, but found an excuse to say it was the Mexicans – then took about a third of their country away.

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The Mexican War brought in Protestant Americans, civilians and soldiers.

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Mexican War hero Zachary Taylor is elected president.

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America’s territorial conquests in the Mexican War put a border line right through an established, cohesive, Spanish-speaking cultural region.

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