Mexican causes of the civil war The American-Mexican war preceded the Civil war by not more than 13 years. However, the consequence of the war really abetted to the already heated and virtually hostile relation between the North and the South. The American-Mexican war offered a lot of reasons in regard to the accelerated coming of the war that really threaten the existence of the still fragile republic of the United States of America.
The best thing we can offer here is the additional land that the U.S. of A. acquired as result of the humiliating defeat of Mexico.
At the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, both parties had agreed that aside from Texas, America was entitled to absorb into its territory the land of California, Arizona, Utah, Mexico, Parts of Colorado and Wyoming and Nevada.The combined area of this land is approximately 500,000 square miles. With this huge addition of lands, it can be deduce that both the North and the South were on the race in utilizing the vast potentials and opportunities that these newly acquired land possessed. The South needed additional lands for its vast cotton plantation and the North was in dire need also for more lands in order to satisfy the need for its ever growing industry and capital.
We must recall that on the year 1820 a certain compromise was observed by those who were still adhering to the concept of slavery and to those who utilized every means in ending this time immemorial stigma of human cruelty toward his fellow human. This compromise became famous in History, as the Missouri Compromise. This compromise was framed when the state of Missouri decided to join the union in the year 1817, since during these days the federal government was quite inutile in enforcing a certain stipulation of the constitution that endeared and preserved the inherent equality and freedom of man.It acceded for a while to the demand of the south that as states and part of the Federal Government of the United States of America.
They should be given the chance to manufacture their own statues. Under this compromise, Missouri was allowed to join the Union and was eventually declared a slave state.However, along with this line it was resolved by congress that all northern land along the southern border of Missouri must be declared a free state. The lull of the storm lasted only for a few years because, the problem that was not rightly addressed in the Missouri compromise had resurfaced again a few years after the Mexican war.
Foremost of this was the notorious compromise which was became famous in history as the compromise of 1850. This compromise was indeed the aftermath of the U.S.- Mexican war, born out of the greed of the acquisition of more lands.
A few years later, the war that would led to the death of hundreds of thousands of American soldiers exploded without mercy. REFERENCE:Davis, Kenneth C. “Chapter IV.” Don’t Know Much About History.
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