Your paper should get at least to the middle of page three and should not go beyond the bottom of page three. Your paper should answer the following question: How did the United States come to fight a war against Mexico and what consequences did the war have for both countries.? Your paper should explore a number of issues: Who in the United States favored going to war against Mexico? Who opposed doing so? What role did the question of slavery play here? What reason did the United States give for going to war against Mexico? What do you think of the reason the US put forth? What conflict over territory did the United States have with Britain around this time that was resolved very differently from how conflict over territory was resolved between the United States and Mexico? Why do you think the United States dealt with the British Empire in a very different way than how it treated Mexico? What was Ulysses S. Grant’s role in this war and what did he think of Mexico? Your paper must be based on a close reading of the pages assigned. Papers written on the basis of clicking around on the internet will be rewarded with a low grade. Some background: The chapter opens with Sam Houston rushing in 1845 to the bedside of an old and dying Andrew Jackson, who expired before Houston arrives. Sam Houston was the leader of the rebellion that brought de-facto independence from Mexico to Texas in 1836 and had twice served as President of the Republic of Texas. The government of Mexico had welcomed immigrants from the United States into the north of their country. Although Mexico outlawed slavery, the new arrivals brought their slaves with them into Mexico and refused to give them up. Once they were numerous and prosperous, the newcomers rebelled and declared themselves independent. The famous 1836 battle of the Alamo was an attempt by Mexico to put down a rebellion of immigrants set on carving out a part of Mexico for themselves. When the chapter opens, Texas has been independent for about a decade. The United States had recognized Texas as an independent country in 1837. Mexico refused to recognize Texas’ independence, considering it a province in continued rebellion. Many in Texas and in the United States wanted to see it become a part of the US. The Mexican-American War of 1846-48 was a further chapter in the expansion of the United States across the continent. In 1803, Thomas Jefferson was able to purchase for the country an immense area to the west of the Mississippi River from Napoléon, who sought to wash his hands of hard-to-defend territories in the New World after slaves in Haiti had carried out a successful revolution. Thomas Jefferson’s doubling of the size of the United States by purchasing the Louisiana Territory from Napoléon was in no small way a “geopolitical benefit that the United States reaped from the black freedom fighters who resisted the French invasion of Saint-Domingue” (Taylor, p. 429). Jefferson, a slave holder, showed no gratefulness to the Haitians, and did everything he could to isolate them economically. Andrew Jackson, who was elected President in 1828 and served two terms, was instrumental in clearing American Indians from land destined for cotton cultivation. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 made possible the forced migration of most Native Americans from land they occupied east of the Mississippi River, dumping those that survived the long trek to the West onto inhospitable territory. The demand for cotton had skyrocketed since the Industrial Revolution had taken off in Britain in the 1780s. The War of 1812, which made shipping dangerous, had redirected Northeastern merchants’ energy and investments into developing America’s own textile industry, with important beginnings in Lowell, Massachusetts. Supplying factories throughout the world with cotton became the main use of slaves, supplanting the preeminence of sugar production in employing slave labor. all of the reading in attached https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=1KK6Msa3E-Fat64O-9fgxV--KahTNOt9j