MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
THE MEXICAN AMERICAN WAR
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Mexico invaded U.S. borders and spilled American blood;
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The Louisiana Purchase
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The British invasion of Mexico
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Other Americans simply thought it was wrong to use war to take land from Mexico. Among those was Second Lieutenant Ulysses S. Grant. Although during the war he expressed no reservations about it, he would later call the war “one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation.
Detailed explanation-2: -The immediate cause of the Mexican-American War was a disputed boundary between the United States and Texas on the Nueces Strip. Mexico did not recognize Texas as legitimate American territory and Texas admission to the United States antagonized Mexican officials and citizens.
Detailed explanation-3: -Under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which settled the Mexican-American War, the United States gained more than 500, 000 square miles (1, 300, 000 square km) of land, expanding U.S. territory by about one-third.
Detailed explanation-4: -Mexico received a little more than $18 million in compensation from the United States as part of the treaty. The pact set a border between Texas and Mexico and ceded California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, most of Arizona and Colorado, and parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Wyoming to the United States.