Mission: Manifest Destiny; take Mexican territory, specifically California, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Nevada. Mission accomplished.
US Grant served in the Mexican War. His position was in the Quartermaster Corps. As an aside, Grant wrote later that he was against that war and saw it as a "land grab" by the US.
the rio grande was what divided the us land from the mexican and it symbolized a border
Yes it was a major part of the Mexican American War, the Indian Wars and the 1913 Mexican Revolution as well as a minor role in the US Civil War.
The Mexican war bombed fort Sumter, which led to the begging of the Civil War!
It gave us the Mexican Cession.
It is called the Mexican American war for a reason. The US fought Mexico.
James Knox Polk was the US president during the Mexican War.
The US-Mexican war.
The Mexican Spy Company was formed under the guidance of Ethan Allen Hitchcock during the Mexican-American war.
The Mexican, or its other name, the Mexican-US War, was in 1846. There is no direct connection to the US Civil War, other then that many of the generals of the Civil War, fought together and came to know each other.
JFK fought in the Mexican American war
The US won the Mexican American War against Mexico.