Mexican-American War

By: Sanzida Hossain and Bella Eckman

Period 7
 Main Goal of Mexican-American War

Fulfill America’s “Manifest

Destiny” to expand its territory
across the entire North
American continent

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 When & Where of Mexican-American War
When: April 25th, 1846-
February 2,1848
Where: Texas, New Mexico,
Northern California & Mexico
City

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 Key Episodes or Events
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How and why did the outcomes of the war with
Mexico 1846-48 add to sectional difficulties?
The Mexican American war in 1846-48 added to sectional
difficulties because the territory gained from Mexico ignited debate
over the expansion of slavery.
The gain of more slaves increased the demand for them in other
areas.

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 On what issues did the North & South
disagree, and why did they disagree?
But
 from the war's very beginning, a small but highly visible group of intellectuals,
clergymen, pacifists, abolitionists, and Whig and Democratic politicians denounced the war as
brutal aggression against a "poor, feeble, distracted country."
Congregationalist minister Theodore Parker declared that if the "war be right then Christianity

is wrong, a falsehood, a lie."
Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison's militant newspaper, the Liberator, expressed open

support for the Mexican people.
A freshman Congressman Abraham Lincoln lashed out against the war, calling it immoral,
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proslavery, and a threat to the nation's republican values
The more territory gained would lead to the debate over whether slavery would spread to

those areas
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To what problems did these disagreements
lead?
The additional territory brought to the forefront again the question
of extending slavery in the United States and the application of the
Missouri Compromise to the new lands.
The proposed Wilmot Proviso banning slaver from any territory
acquired from Mexico was never passed in Congress that led to
acrimonious debate.