essay question

1-Imagine you are a historian, and the only existing sources of evidence

regarding the conquest are documents from Indigenous sources. What can we

conclude by analyzing the Florentine Codex, the Annals of Tlatelolco, as well

as the excerpts from Oaxaca and Yucatan that best describes the conquest

from the perspective of the Indigenous population?

2-In 1844, U. S. President James K. Polk ran on a Democratic platform that

supported manifest destiny. Manifest Destiny is the idea that Americans were

predestined to occupy the entire North American continent. The last act of

Polk's predecessor, John Tyler, had been to annex the Republic of Texas in

1845. Polk wanted to lay claim to California, New Mexico, and land near the

disputed southern border of Texas. Mexico, however, was not so eager to let

go of these territories. What ensued later is referred in the historical records as

the Mexican American War. Examine the causes that precipitated the

Mexican American War, as well as the end result of this conflict.