MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
THE MEXICAN AMERICAN WAR
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Texas and Mexico border was at the Rio Grande.
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There was no change to the southern border
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Texas and Mexico border was at the Rio Grande. Mexico gave up claims to Texas, California, and New Mexico
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New Mexico and Mexico border was at the Rio Grande
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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: -Mexico also relinquished all claims to Texas, and recognized the Rio Grande as the southern boundary with the United States.
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: -What did the United States accomplish with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo? How was this different than what was accomplished with the Gadsden Purchase? The United States forced Mexico to give them the Northern third of their land. The Gadsden purchase bought a land strip to help extend railroads across the continent.