MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
MANIFEST DESTINY
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Question
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Americans invaded the area believing it their right to do so
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Mexico invited Americans in to keep their claim on the area, with the stipulation they conform to Mexican culture
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Americans slowly pushed into Mexico and Mexico never noticed
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Mexico refused to let Americans in, but they came in anyway
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Detailed explanation-1: -Why did so many Americans end up in Mexico’s state known as Texas? Mexico invited Americans in to keep their claim on the area.
Detailed explanation-2: -When Mexico founded the province of Texas in 1821, the land was very sparsely populated, so Texans actively recruited settlers from the United States to help grow the region’s population.
Detailed explanation-3: -Under the terms of the treaty negotiated by Trist, Mexico ceded to the United States Upper California and New Mexico. This was known as the Mexican Cession and included present-day Arizona and New Mexico and parts of Utah, Nevada, and Colorado (see Article V of the treaty).
Detailed explanation-4: -The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which brought an official end to the Mexican-American War (1846-48), was signed on February 2, 1848, at Guadalupe Hidalgo, a city to which the Mexican government had fled with the advance of U.S. forces.