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🗓️ 8 May 2022
⏱️ 71 minutes
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0:00.0 | This week, a lecture about the Mexican-American War during the late 1840s. |
0:07.8 | Professor John Pignaro of Aquinas College examined the political causes of the war and its impact on the following 20 years. |
0:15.2 | So the Americans start looking at these sparsely populated lands and see the potential for agriculture and mining. |
0:23.2 | And that's going to figure into the manifest destiny sentiment that these lands ought to just become |
0:27.5 | U.S. territory. |
0:29.3 | That the Americans would use the land better than the Mexicans were using it. |
0:32.9 | And not only that, they were ordained by divine providence to do so. |
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1:13.0 | We're going to cover the Mexican-American War today. |
1:16.6 | This is a war a lot of Americans. |
1:18.9 | I think they know very little about it. |
1:20.7 | It's considered one of the more embarrassing wars in American history, |
1:23.3 | and there's reasons sometimes Americans don't like to talk about it. |
1:26.7 | My own mother, even though I've lectured on the Mexican-American War for years and written |
1:30.5 | a couple books about it, still thinks I study the Spanish-American War sometimes. |
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