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1 day ago · Ex-slave and prominent anti-slavery advocate Frederick Douglass opposed the Mexican–American War. In the United States, increasingly divided by sectional rivalry, the war was a partisan issue and an essential element in the origins of the American Civil War.
2 days ago · In any event, the Mexican Cession “is one of the great monetary bargains of all time,” Nichols says of the 529,000 square miles (not counting Texas) the United States acquired 176 years ago for just under 5 cents an acre. Had it never happened, “The state of Deseret might have continued,” the professor says.
4 days ago · Whigs were less in favor of expansionism than their Democratic counterparts, and Whigs tended to oppose the Mexican–American War and the acquisition of new territories like Cuba.
2 days ago · Mexican Revolution, (1910–20), a long and bloody struggle among several factions in constantly shifting alliances which resulted ultimately in the end of the 30-year dictatorship in Mexico and the establishment of a constitutional republic.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
4 days ago · Some Democrats were also opposed; the Democrats of Louisiana opposed annexation of Mexico, while those in Mississippi supported it. These events related to the Mexican–American War and had an effect on the American people living in the Southern Plains at the time.
3 days ago · During the period from 1910 until 1939, Mexican Americans remained largely unassimilated, rural, and poor. They were for the most part forgotten Americans amid the crises of the Depression and World War II (1939–45).
5 days ago · A reactionary ideologue as well as ambitious bureaucrat, Hoover hyped the danger of communism in order to increase the power and prestige of his agency. Not only did the FBI design the political ...
