MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
THE MEXICAN AMERICAN WAR
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3, 000 lives and $5 million
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5, 000 lives and $3 million
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15, 000 lives and $17 million
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17, 000 lives and $15 million
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Detailed explanation-1: -Mexican-American War Fought between 1846 and the start of 1848, the Mexican-American War cost the United States $2.72 billion, the 11th-most expensive war in U.S. history.
Detailed explanation-2: -The U.S. government paid Mexico $15 million “in consideration of the extension acquired by the boundaries of the United States” and agreed to pay American citizens debts owed to them by the Mexican government.
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. Read more about the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
Detailed explanation-4: -Its provisions called for Mexico to cede 55% of its territory (present-day Arizona, California, New Mexico, and parts of Colorado, Nevada and Utah) in exchange for fifteen million dollars in compensation for war-related damage to Mexican property.