I. The Power of History:
If we look at the United States history archives, it would be deeply written that the so founder of North America became known as Christopher Columbus. How Columbus set foot in soon the be named “The New World.” He became cherish by many and hated by others. As Trouillot claims, a professor of Anthropology and social sciences at the University of Chicago, history is a form of power and mostly a story of those who won. In this instance, Columbus expansion became a story of bravery that brought forward a New World that will eventually bring freedom and a pursuit of happiness. This story illustrates a main point in Trouillot main thinking, to what happened to what is said to have happened is not usually cleared. To expand …show more content…
For this reason, the U.S and Mexican War is the perfect example of contrasting history facts told by those who won. Moreover, the United States began their expansion into the Mexican land in order to cultivate additional acres of land in order to supply the demand for sugar. While bringing slaves were legal in the that time period, Mexico was mostly more concentrated on their independence against Spain. Settlers later claimed, that the Mexican Government after becoming independence began to summit rules of their religion, and rules that they should follow under the dictatorship of the Mexican president. The Mexican government eventually law an anti- slavery settlement that will outraged settlers. On the other hand, Mexico history describes the war as being an essential battle in order to domain their land from further settlers. The government in 1830 prohibited further American immigration into Mexican territory. They began forcing settlers to convert into Catholicism and sign an oath of allegiance to Mexico in order to them stay on their land. The Mexican government became economically unstable after their independence making them extremely vulnerable against other countries. Their poor government structure became the tipping point that proved once more the significance of the Manifest Destiny and the idea that God given them the right and destiny to expand their freedom westward. In consequence Mexico lost half of its land, and their population suffer substantially. The war added one million acres into the U.S while costing them million of dollars and thousands of lives in the process (Olson). Even though, it became an unpopular battle in both countries, it became a grounding point on pro and anti slavery that will push the United States into a Civil