MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
MANIFEST DESTINY
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the territories between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains
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Texas and Oregon as new states
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territories in the Southwest, including California and New Mexico
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$15 million from Mexico
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Detailed explanation-1: -This treaty, signed on February 2, 1848, ended the war between the United States and Mexico. By its terms, Mexico ceded 55 percent of its territory, including the present-day states California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, most of Arizona and Colorado, and parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Wyoming.
Detailed explanation-2: -The treaty added an additional 525, 000 square miles to United States territory, including the land that makes up all or parts of present-day Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. Mexico also gave up all claims to Texas and recognized the Rio Grande as America’s southern boundary.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed in 1848, the treaty allowed the United States to purchase California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado for fifteen million dollars, doubling the size of the United States, but also displacing millions of Mexican citizens in new American territory.
Detailed explanation-4: -Terms in this set (8) What did the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo do? It ended the U.S.-Mexican War and transferred 500, 000 square miles of land from Mexico to United States ownership.