MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
COMPROMISE OF 1850
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New Mexico and Texas
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Texas and Oklahoma
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New Mexico and California
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South and North Carolina
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Detailed explanation-1: -The boundary line between New Mexico and Texas is the middle of the channel of the Rio Grande as it was located in 1850.
Detailed explanation-2: -Texas claimed the Rio Grande as its southern border. Mexico said the Nueces River, to the north, should be the border. The dispute simmered until Dec. 29, 1845, when the U.S. annexed the Lone Star State, and sent troops to the Rio Grande a month later.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Rio Grande frequently meanders along the Texas–Mexico border. As a result, the United States and Mexico have a treaty by which the Rio Grande is maintained as the border, with new cut-offs and islands being transferred to the other nation as necessary.
Detailed explanation-4: -While the Texas-New Mexico border officially was established by the Compromise of 1850, its precise boundaries were subject to interpretation, the whims of Mother Nature, and – whoops!