Mexico-U.S.Relations and the Formation of the Modern Mexico
Relations between Mexico and the United States from 1808 to 1867 can be described in both territorial and ideological terms.In territorial terms,US expansionist movements repeatedly reshaped the border between the two countries.After the Texas War and the Mexican-American War,the U.S.occupied more than half of Mexico's territory,seriously damaging Mexico's territorial integrity.In terms of political ideology,the first U.S.minister to Mexico,Joel Poinsett,supported the York Rite in Mexico and used ideological tools to influence Mexican liberals.During the three-year civil war in Mexico and the French invasion,in defence of the federal republic of the New World against the invasion of the monarchies of the Old World,the United States supported the Judrez government with military aid and diplomatic solidarity,so that the Mexican liberals eventually overcame the conservatives and overthrew the Maximilian Empire,and liberalism has since become the mainstream ideology of Mexico.In general,the relationship between Mexico and the United States before 1867 included not only the practical aspects of benefit exchange,such as the"exchange of territory for protection",but also the cultural and ideological aspects,such as the conquest of the Anglo-Puritan civilization over the Spanish-Catholic civilization and the new"American model"over the old European monarchy.However,the ideological export of the United States to Mexico during this period was not an end in itself,but served primarily the US'realist goal of territorial expansion.Meanwhile,the liberal ideas of the Mexican liberals naturally emphasized independence and protection of national sovereignty against interference by external powers,which contradicted the expansionism of the United States under the guise of universal liberalism.Thus the cooperation between the Mexican liberals and the United States government in terms of real interests had been negatively affected.
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