Part one of term paper
The Mexican War was a war that lasted from 1846 to 1848. The two major issues behind the war were the inability of the Mexican government to establish political and economic control over its vast northern frontier, including the Mexican state of Tejas y Coahuila, and the westward movement and dynamic expansionism of the United States during ...

Part two of term paper
... Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah, as well as portions of the states of Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Wyoming. As the first conflict in which U.S. military forces fought almost exclusively outside of the country, the Mexican War marked the beginning of the rise of the United States as a global military power. The Mexicans, although viewed their loss of the territory in the North as, “an unnecessary war that had been thrust upon Mexico by a land-hungry United States.” The Mexica ...