MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
MANIFEST DESTINY
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President Polk provoked the war.
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The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the war.
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California was given to the U.S. without a fight.
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U.S. gained California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and other current states.
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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: -However, the boundary between Texas and Mexico was disputed, with the Republic of Texas and the U.S. asserting it to be the Rio Grande and Mexico claiming it to be the more-northern Nueces River.
Detailed explanation-3: -The immediate cause of the Mexican-American War was a disputed boundary between the United States and Texas on the Nueces Strip.
Detailed explanation-4: -The United States received the disputed Texan territory, as well as New Mexico territory and California. The Mexican government was paid $15 million-the same sum issued to France for the Louisiana Territory. The United States Army won a grand victory.