MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
THE MEXICAN AMERICAN WAR
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Question
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America had to pay 15 million dollars to Mexico.
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All Mexicans living in the Mexican Cession could either stay and become US citizens or go to Mexico.
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America had pay Mexico 40 million to Mexico.
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Mexico had give up all claim to Texas.
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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 effectively halved the size of Mexico and doubled the territory of the United States. This territorial exchange had long-term effects on both nations. The war and treaty extended the United States to the Pacific Ocean, and provided a bounty of ports, minerals, and natural resources for a growing country.
Detailed explanation-3: -The treaty provided that the property rights of former Mexican subjects would be kept inviolate. The early Californians felt compelled to continue the community property system regarding the earnings and accumulation of property during a marriage-a concept enshrined to this day in the California constitution.