Do you know why Mexicans call Americans Gringos??
I know what it means I just wanted to see how many ppl knew. PPl think its a racist term. I get called gringo when I go to Mexico just cause I was born in the US. We use it in Mexico just to describe someone white, we mean no harm. A lot of Mexican light skinned ppl are nicknamed Gringo. Its just for fun. But it does have to do with the uniform.
In what way did the Mexican-American War lead to the Civil War?
The Mexcan American war led to Mexco having to give what is now the SouthWest to the USA.That meant that a number of new states were going to be admitted in the coming years.The issue of whether new states were to be admiited as slave states or free states loomed so large, that it very definitely added to the build up to the Civil War.
Why did some americans oppose the war with Mexico around 1846?
Rather than cutting and pasting an answer like someone above me did I will give you an answer that is worthwhile: 1. The reasons for the war itself were questionable. General Zachary Taylor claimed that American "blood had been spilled on American soil." Hence we had a moral obligation to fight. But the location of the spilling of American blood was in dispute. There was an ongoing debate over the land between Nueces River and the Rio Grande River, both Mexico and America claiming it as theirs. The person killed was killed on that disputed land, therefore it was not accurate to say that the blood was spilled on "American" soil. In fact a young Abraham Lincoln entered into the House of Representatives docket of resolutions one that came to be known as the "Spot Resolutions" in which he demanded to know WHERE the blood (the exact "spot") was spilled so that we knew if it was on American or Mexican soil. 2. Others felt that American tax dollars should not be spent in blatantly acquiring new territory. Henry David Throeau refused to pay his taxes during this time period and spent some time in jail where he wrote one of the most famous pieces in American literary history--Civil Disobedience. When he was visited in jail by friend and fellow transcendentalist writer Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson allegedly asked Thoreau, "Why are you in jail?'' To which Thoreau responded, "Why AREN'T you?" 3. Many Americans did not buy into the notion of Manifest Destiny which claimed that it was America's manifest (clear) destiny to take over all of North America. Even though Spain and later Mexico hadn't done anything with the land for 200 years, it did not justify America taking it from them. And there you have it. Ta-Da!
Mexican War leading to Civil War?
The Mexican/American confrontation was never a real war, it was a series of skirmishes, deadly of course, but neither country could have waged or sustained a real war at the time. And the statement that those confrontations, bloody as some of them were, led to the American civil war is about as accurate as saying the charge up San Juan hill led to WWI. And slavery although certainly a factor, was not the only factor and arguably not the most major one leading to the civil war, because keep in mind that institutionalized slavery was already dieing a well deserved death, and the vast majority of Americans had no connection whatsoever to slavery in any form. The hottest issue (contrary to what we've been taught) was the determination of one group of people to force their notions of nationality onto another group, and slavery was ultimately used as the shortest of several fuses. The civil war was in fact about "states rights" vs Federal consolidation more than the several various issues used as "reasons". A little research into both sides of the run-up easily illustrates that. President Lincoln also made that clear in more than a few speeches, opining at times that repatriation of blacks to Africa would be a valid consideration if it would make any difference. He concluded it would not. Very telling.