MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
THE MEXICAN AMERICAN WAR
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Expansion to the Pacific Ocean
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Provided a boundary of ports
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minerals & Natural Resources of, a growing country
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All of the Above
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Detailed explanation-1: -With the annexation of more than 525, 000 square miles of land, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo extended the boundaries of the United States west to the Pacific Ocean. This agreement, along with the 1853 Gadsden Purchase, created the southern border of the present-day United States.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Mexican officials and Nicholas Trist, President Polk’s representative, began discussions for a peace treaty that August. On February 2, 1848 the Treaty was signed in Guadalupe Hidalgo, a city north of the capital where the Mexican government had fled as U.S. troops advanced.