Question

1. What were the arguments that the news media used to support a war with Mexico?

2. What role did race play in both the promotion and opposition to the war?
3. Who were the opponents of the war?
4. How did they manifest their opposition to the war?
5. What evidence does Zinn provide to determine how widespread desertion was among American soldiers?

Answer 1

1.- They wanted the American people to believe that it was their right or their destiny to inhabit the Mexican territory

2.- The people who opposed believed that the South was more worth expanding, and those who supported it believed that those lands belonged to them.

3.- It was common people, some writers that opposed the war with their words.

4.- Some people protested against the war, but with it was useless.

5.- Zinn used evidence of some of the articles of newspapers written during the time of the war.