MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
THE MEXICAN AMERICAN WAR
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the Oregon Territory.
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the Louisiana Purchase.
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Coahuila y Tejas
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the Mexican Cession.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Under the terms of the treaty negotiated by Trist, Mexico ceded to the United States Upper California and New Mexico. This was known as the Mexican Cession and included present-day Arizona and New Mexico and parts of Utah, Nevada, and Colorado (see Article V of the treaty).
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -The United States claimed that if it did not annex California the territory might come under French or British rule. To this must be added the racial and cultural tensions that developed between these mid-nineteenth century descendants of Spanish and English colonization.