MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
TEXAS ANNEXATION PROBLEM
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designated as the Rio Grande.
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disputed for many more years.
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established at the Nueces River.
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marked with the building of a fence.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The two nations signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, agreeing that the Rio Grande as the southern border of Texas.
Detailed explanation-2: -Mexico also relinquished all claims to Texas, and recognized the Rio Grande as the southern boundary with the United States.
Detailed explanation-3: -Mexico ceded nearly all the territory now included in the U.S. states of New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, California, Texas, and western Colorado for $15 million and U.S. assumption of its citizens’ claims against Mexico.
Detailed explanation-4: -Mexico, who refused to formally recognize Texas’ independence in the first place, pushed back against Texas’ desire to set their Republic’s border at the Río Grande. Mexico contested that Texas had to move the line back to the Nueces River, which runs through modern day Corpus Christi.
Detailed explanation-5: -The war officially ended with the February 2, 1848, signing in Mexico of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. 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.