MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
THE MEXICAN AMERICAN WAR
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Texas had to give up land to Mexico in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
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Texas exchanged land with the U.S. for the amount of $10, 000, 000 to pay its public debt as part of the Compromise of 1850.
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Texas made land concessions to the U.S. in repayment for its help in the Texas Revolution.
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Texas lost land as a part of negotiations between the U.S. and Mexico after the U.S. Mexican War.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The compromise set Texas’ modern-day border and ceded its western and northernmost territory to the U.S. in exchange for $10 million. Austin, TX, November 25, 2021-This Thanksgiving marks the 171st anniversary of the compromise that shaped the boundary between Texas and its neighbor, New Mexico.
Detailed explanation-2: -California was admitted to the Union as the 16th free state. In exchange, the south was guaranteed that no federal restrictions on slavery would be placed on Utah or New Mexico. Texas lost its boundary claims in New Mexico, but the Congress compensated Texas with $10 million.
Detailed explanation-3: -Under the compromise, Texas surrendered its claims to present-day New Mexico and other states in return for federal assumption of Texas’s public debt. California was admitted as a free state, while the remaining portions of the Mexican Cession were organized into New Mexico Territory and Utah Territory.
Detailed explanation-4: -In return, Texas received an immediate 5 million dollars in U.S. bonds and another 5 million dollars to settle debts that were a direct result of annexation by the United States. Texas used the money to settle debts incurred during its years as a republic and then had 3 million dollars leftover.