Many Americans, both US and Mexican citizens, opposed the war. These included Abraham Lincoln, John Quincy Adams, and Henry David Thoreau.
Some in the North opposed the Mexican-American war because they were against slavery, and saw the war as adding territory to the South, creating more potential slavery states.
The Mexican American War had its supporters and people opposed to the war such as Abraham Lincoln. Many people opposed the war as being unnecessary. Or, based on the annexation of Texas, opposed it because Texas had every chance to be a slave state. For this exact reason, the new Secretary of State Calhoun wanted Texas and the sure way to acquire it was to beat the Mexicans in a war.
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"there were no Mexicans in the civil war. but there were blacks in the civil war." Actually i just got out of my U.S history class and learned that there were Mexicans in the civil war my friend. please research your facts before hand. Im sorry i dont have an exact number for your question.
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He opposed it because it would expand slavery.Opposition to the Mexican-American War was mostly among abolitionists, who felt that the war was being fought to expand the area under which slavery could be legal and that the war had no legitimate cause. Notable among those who opposed the war were Abraham Lincoln, who in his only senate term sponsored resolutions asking whether the Mexicans fired on US soldiers on their soil or on US soil (or in the region disputed between Mexico and the US at the time), and Stephen Douglas who called the war the "rape of Mexico."
A word that means "opposed to war " is "Pacifism".
The American Invasion. The War of '47.
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