MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
THE MEXICAN AMERICAN WAR
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Brazos
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Nueces
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Colorado
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Guadalupe
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Rio Grande is the fifth longest river in the United States and among the top twenty in the world. It extends from the San Juan Mountains of Colorado to the Gulf of Mexico (1, 901 miles) and forms a 1, 255 mile segment of the border between the United States and Mexico.
Detailed explanation-2: -Texas claimed the Rio Grande as its southern border. Mexico said the Nueces River, to the north, should be the border.
Detailed explanation-3: -Upon the conclusion of the TEXAS REVOLUTION, the Republic of Texas contended that the Rio Grande marked its border with Mexico, while Mexico argued that the Nueces River was the boundary. Consequently, both countries laid claim to the area between the two rivers, known as the Nueces Strip.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Boundary Act of 1836 established the entire length of the Rio Grande as the southern and western boundary of the Republic of Texas, even though colonization was confined principally to the territory between the Nueces and the Sabine.