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Crisis in the Southwest - The United States, Mexico, and the Struggle over Texas (Paperback)
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Crisis in the Southwest - The United States, Mexico, and the Struggle over Texas (Paperback)
Series: The American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era
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The war between the United States and Mexico was decades in the
making. Although Texas was an independent republic from 1836 to
1845, Texans retained an affiliation with the United States that
virtually assured annexation at some point. Mexico's reluctance to
give up Texas put it on a collision course with the United States.
The Mexican War receives scant treatment in books. Most historians
approach the conflict as if it were a mere prelude to the Civil
War. The Mexican cession of 1848, however, rivaled the Louisiana
Purchase in importance for the sheer amount of territory acquired
by the United States. The dispute over slavery-which had been
rendered largely academic by the Missouri Compromise-burst forth
anew as Americans now faced the realization that they must make a
decision over the institution's future. The political battle over
the status of slavery in these new territories was the direct cause
of the Crisis of 1850 and ignited sectional differences in the
decade that followed. In Crisis in the Southwest: The United
States, Mexico, and the Struggle over Texas, Richard Bruce Winders
provides a concise, accessible overview of the Mexican War and
argues that the Mexican War led directly to the Civil War by
creating a political and societal crisis that drove a wedge between
the North and the South. While on the surface the enemy was Mexico,
in reality Americans were at odds with one another over the future
of the nation, as the issue of annexation threatened to upset the
balance between free and slave states. Winders also explains the
military connections between the Mexican War and Civil War, since
virtually every important commander in the Civil War-including Lee,
Stonewall Jackson, Grant, McClellan, and Longstreet-gained his
introduction to combat in Mexico. These connections are enormously
significant to the way in which these generals waged war, since it
was in the Mexican War that they learned their trade. Crisis in the
Southwest provides readers with a clear understandin
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