What are the reasons James Polk went to war with mexico?
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to get to the other side
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I'm not sure with the dates, but there are some ones:\n\n1) Independence war from Spain (1810-1821) WON!\n2) Spanish attempt to reconquer Mexico (1829) WON!\n3) Mexico-Texas war (independence) (1835)Betrayed... lost :(\n4) "Cake's war": Mexico v.s. Spain, England and France... lost!!! That was mostly a financial war, so we had to pay a lot of debts... (1838)\n6) USA Intervention (1846) ... LOST (what did americans really wanted???!!! Gezz!!!)\n5) French Intervention (1864) WON!!!Whoa!!! Napoleon III, the ruler of the world, sure learned his lesson!!! Plus, we're the first (and perhaps only) american country who killed an Emperor (Maximilian of Habsburg).\n6) Mexican revolution (1910-1920). WON? LOST?... who knows??? Yeah, the civil war. We had a dictatorship... so we're still arguing if the revolution was favorable or not.\n7) USA's invasion to Veracruz Port (1914). LOST!!! What??? Mexican polices arrest an american officer for carrying a weapon without permission and uncle sam's answer is to blow up an entire city??? Gezzz!!! (Well, I guess the Empire was really worried Mexico had excellent relationships with Germany and Japan and awesome military technology before 1st. World War started ;))\n8) Second world war (1942). WON!!! Yup. Mexico, humbly but firmly collaborated with the north american armies. Because of collaborating with winner's wing, we had economical growth after the war ended.
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USA.. Mexican-American War.\n\nFrance....funny.
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His behavior cannot be justified as it is based in greed. Not much is made of the memo here in the states by the so called liberal press. He was looking to go to war with Iraq any way he could but his decision is immersed in the oil fields not the people. He don't care about our people, why would he care about them.
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I assume you mean the Mexican American War?\n\nThe primary cause of the Mexican American War was the US's admission of Texas as a State.  This is the main reason why Texas remained independent for nine years.  Texas won its independence from Mexico in 1836, but was not admitted to the Union until 1845.\n\nAfter Texas' independence, Mexico threatened war with United States if the US made it a state.  Between 1936 and 1845, the growing Manifest Destiny movement, culminating with the election of James K. Polk, wanted war with Mexico to expand the boarders of the United States to the Pacific Ocean.\n\nSome of the results of the Mexican American War we are still feeling today.  Mexico lost 2/3 of its land to the US, but there is misinterpreted clause in the Treaty of Guadalupe that illegal immigrants claim allows them to live and work in the United States.  Basically, the treaty guarantees the right of Mexicans that lived in Mexico's territories ceded to the US to live and work in the new US territories, and after a year become US Citizens.  Today, many illegal immigrants mistakenly claim that gives them the right to enter, live, and work in the US.  However, this right was only given to Mexicans who lived in the ceded territories at the time the treaty was signed.\n\nMany people may feel that this grave injustice done to Mexico justifies allowing waves of illegal immigrates to stay in the US.  However, what most people fail to realize is that you cannot look at a treaty signed over 150 years ago and apply today's standards to it.  The world has changed dramatically since than; furthermore, in the land purchased from Mexico by the US, a condition of the treaty, there were very few Mexicans actually living in that territory.  The vast major of the population of those territories were indigenous Indians, who did not speak Spanish and had little or no contact or loyalty to Mexico.
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There are multiple reasons why the US went to war in Iraq, let me try to detail as many as I can:\n\n1.  Saddam Hussein's regime was genocidal, killing up to a million of it's own people.  Who can forget the photos of dead Kurds (mothers with their babies for instance) seemingly sleeping, but actually dead for resisting Saddam.\n\n2.  The very real possibility of active production of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs);  WMDs have been found, although they seem to have been produced pre war.  This does not reduce the threat of these weapons, because in the case of mustard gas, it can remain deadly for decades.  The very presence of these substances were a violation of muliple UN resolutions, as they were said that all of these must be turned over.\n\n3.  Constant ongoing disregard (breaking) of multiple UN resolutions, any of which was supposed to result in the resumption of military force against Iraq.  For example, the Jets patrolling the "no-fly" zone were guaranteed safe passage under the UN resolutions, however they were fired upon daily by the Iraqi military.\n\n4.  The Oil for food scandal:  Saddam was actually bribing his way out of any further UN action by bribing multiple members of it's Security council.  This is why there was so much resistance to ANY action to enforce the UN resolutions.   Khoffi Annon's own son, Kojo, was entangled in this and the billions in oil dollars funneled from Saddam.   The UN was and is completely corrupt.  Only by going around the UN could this chain be broken.\n\n5.  Saddam using his country for terrorist training.  Iraq was being used for terrorist training under the direct supervision of Saddam Hussein.  In one situation he sheltered Abu Nidal on the condition he train terrorists for Saddam.   Nidal, who was pretty sick physically, and on the run, refused.  The official report of Abu Nidal's death was that he "committed suicide" by several bullet shots to the head.  hmmm\nSaddam's govt was also directly paying suicide bombers in Israel.\n\nI hope this helps you understand what your parent's are fighting for, and what great people they are.  If not for people like them, our country would not be protected.  They perform one of the hardest, but most heroic duties to ours, the greatest country in the world.
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mexician and american war 158 years ago.  only i am not so sure you can invade, mexician troops were riding across the rio grande into texas, which had won its independence.\n\nat the same time, the folks in CA declared indpendence from mexico as well.
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The US–Mexican War was a military conflict fought between the United States and Mexico in the years 1846 to 1848, in the wake of the U.S. annexation of Texas in 1845. Mexico had always refused to recognize the loss of Texas in 1836 and announced its intention to take back what it considered a rebel province. In the United States, the war was a partisan issue, supported by most Democrats and opposed by most Whigs. Popular belief in the Manifest Destiny of the United States ultimately translated into public support for the war. In Mexico, the war was considered a matter of national pride.\n\nThe most important consequence of the war was the Mexican Cession, in which the Mexican territories of California and New Mexico were ceded to the United States. The question of extending slavery to these new territories was a catalyst that helped bring on the American Civil War just 15 years later. In Mexico, the enormous loss of territory which resulted from the war encouraged the central government to enact policies to colonize its northern territories as a hedge against further losses.\n\nIn the U.S., the war is sometimes called the Mexican War. In Mexico, it is called la intervención norteamericana (the North American Intervention) or la guerra del 47 (the War of '47).
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He bargianed for his life with Sam Houston. He said that the Mexican government would give Tejas (Texas) to the Americans that settled there (He said that Tejas won the war).
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_revolution#Causes\nthis might help check it out
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MMMMM... Here in Mexico, USA enter in two points in the history classes:\n- The 13 colonies, what was it, and what they decided to revolt.\n- the mexican-american war... here teachs that all the texas stuff was a stratagem of the USA's gov to get the northen states of México 'cause they needed it for build the trnascontinental railroad. \n-the IIWW, being "the good ones".\n\nalso something about the pancho villa's raid in columbus, but with reason (american army was attacking the revolutionaries in the north of mexico, crossing the border.)
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Sure, Sam Houston beat the Mexican Army back in 1836, then the US military had beaten them again 1848. There is plenty of oil there to help out with growth not to mention the labor pool that has improved their skill in the past 30 years.  Mexico being added to the US would do wonders for the economy, then 70% of the poorest of the population would increase their standard of living into the modern world. But we would have to sink in tons of money in Federal programs to break up all the corruption, that in itself makes it not worth it.
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Cause: Mexican government corruption keeping people poor while they live like fat cats, Mexicans see opportunity for better wage and ability to support families, Big money corporations exploiting people on both sides,  Federal government lax in enforcing immigration and customs laws,\n \nEffect: driving down wages and creating a larger separation between rich and poor. Racism and fear on the rise, lack of faith in the government, despair, poverty, hunger and resentment.
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Actually, you are misunderstanding the relevance of the Zimmerman Telegram, an attempt at wartime diplomacy between Germany and Mexico in 1916 during the First World War. Germany had suggested that, if the United States entered the First World War in Europe, the American army would be sent to Europe and the Rio Grande would be almost completely unguarded. Germany felt that if Mexico could be enticed into joining the Central Powers, it would act as a 'force in being' and that the United States would then have to retain large military forces to watch their southern flank.\n\nGermany did not, in fact, offer to send substantial military forces to Mexico and thus eventually assume power, as you are implying. Germany was not able to send reinforcements to any of their existing colonies in Africa or China or the Pacific because of British naval superiority and the German squadron at Singapore had been destroyed at Port Stanley in 1915.\n\nSorry to rain on your parade, but your statement really is without merit.
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In Congress, Polk was a firm supporter of Jacksonian democracy; he opposed the Second Bank of the United States, favored gold and silver over paper money; distrusted banks; and preferred agricultural interests over industrial ones. This behavior earned him the nickname "Young Hickory," an allusion to Andrew Jackson's sobriquet, "Old Hickory." After Jackson defeated Adams in the presidential election of 1828, Polk rose in prominence, becoming the leader of the pro-Administration faction in Congress. As chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee, he lent his support to the President in the conflict over the National Bank.
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I hope this helps! From a fellow TEXAN\n\nIn the Texas Revolution of 1835-36, American colonists in Texas secured the independence of that area from Mexico and subsequently established a republic. Since the 1820s many settlers from the United States had colonized Texas; by the 1830s they far outnumbered the Texas Mexicans. Mexican dictator Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna attempted to reverse this trend by such measures as abolishing slavery and enforcing the collection of customs duties. The settlers rebelled (originally as part of a general federalist resistance to Santa Anna's Centralist government, which had overthrown the Mexican Constitution of 1824). Hostilities began at Gonzales on Oct. 2, 1835; the Texans repelled a Mexican force sent to disarm them and won subsequent victories. \n\nIn February 1836, Santa Anna, undiscouraged, led a large army across the Rio Grande; he was delayed, however, by the unexpectedly determined defense of the Alamo. Meanwhile, the Texans declared their independence from Mexico on Mar. 2, 1836, and organized a provisional government. Sam Houston led a successful retreat, but other insurgents were defeated and massacred in late March. Santa Anna pursued the rebels, overstretching his supply line and thus isolating his forces on San Jacinto Prairie. There, on April 21, he was routed by Houston and taken prisoner. Mexican troops then withdrew from Texas. The Republic of Texas (with its Lone Star flag) remained independent until 1845, when it became part of the United States.
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Because he's in bed with Vicente Fox,  the corporations need cheap labor and Fox wants to get rid of his poor and uneducated no assets people, he even encourages them to leave. The Mexican government dose not want to fix or care for their people if you have no assets they don't want you. To be a citizen in Mexico you have to have money before they let you in, you cannot come in poor. Bush is selling us out.