Mexican American War Essays

The assignment was to watch the first episode of the series “Latino Americans” and of course, write about what it was about and how I felt about it. The first episode included a period in time when the Spanish were running their own things to becoming “Foreigners in their own …

Emmett Vidaurri 01/29/19 History of Wyatt Earp Wyatt Earp was a monumental American frontiersman that lived from March 19, 1848, to January 13, 1929. He was born in Monmouth Texas. (Thesis)…(purpose of report) Wyatt Earp’s mother, Virginia Ann Cooksey, was Nicholas Earp’s second wife. Nicholas Earp was a stubborn man …

In the mid-19th century, America began to aspire towards acquiring territorial possessions in the region today known as Latin America. The Mexican American War was fought from 1846 to 1848 and ended with Mexico being forced to sell all its territory north of the Rio Grande to the United States …

The Kansas-Nebraska Act was introduced by Stephen A Douglas with the aim of mandating popular sovereignty in territories and allowing the settlers of a new state to either accept or reject slavery at will. The Kansas-Nebraska Act was a pro-slavery bill which gave Nebraska and Kansas the power to open …

Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson was considered to be one of the South’s most successful Confederate Army generals in the American Civil War, he was General Lee’s right hand man, and a war hero. He lived from 1824 until 1863 when he died from pneumonia after being injured from friendly fire in …

1.How did American life during the period of the Age of the Common Man reflect both the influence of the frontier and the impact of newer rationalistic concepts? (Think inventions, religion, peace, prosperity, literature, art, education, etc) 2.Briefly define (no more than 1 paragraph each, some are a sentence or …

In 1836, after a deadly war,  the Texans successfully gained independence from  Mexico and formed the Lone Star Republic.  Initially the Texans approached the Union  with the hopes of being admitted as a slave state, but the delicate balance in congress  between slave and free states would be disturbed by …

One can argue that the Mexican-American was an unprovoked and unjustifiable war of aggression and territorial aggrandizement. It could also be argued that the war was not unprovoked nor was it territorial aggrandizement. Realistically the war provoked, justifiable, and not territorial aggrandizement. This notion is exemplified through the document provided. …