Question

Who deserves more blame for the Mexican-American war Mexico or the United States?

Answer 1

The United States. As the main cause of this war was the westward expansion of the United States. That American ideal of “Manifest Destiny.” That it was their god given right to expand westward. At the time before the period of the Mexican-American war, people believed they could conquer people already living on the land and take it for the United States.