WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
WESTWARD EXPANSION
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Mexico banned slavery for moral reasons.
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Mexico would benefit greatly from the California Gold Rush.
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Mexico had to pay a large sum of money to the United States.
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Mexico lost more than half of its territories to the United States.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -By the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (February 2, 1848), Mexico accepted the Rio Grande as its boundary. The treaty also gave the United States Mexico’s northern provinces of California and New Mexico. The United States thus acquired vast mineral wealth, especially gold, and extended its border to the Pacific Ocean.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Mexican-American war (1846-1848) changed the slavery debate. It almost doubled the size of the United States and began a debate, between Northerners and Southerners, over what to do with the newly acquired land.
Detailed explanation-4: -How did once-dominant Mexico lose the Mexican-American War? Mexico was essentially broke. The country was racked by financial instability as the war began in 1846. America’s blockade of Mexican ports worsened an already difficult situation, as Mexico couldn’t import and export goods, or levy taxes on imports.
Detailed explanation-5: -Including civilians killed by violence, military deaths from disease and accidental deaths, the Mexican death toll may have reached 25, 000 and the American death toll exceeded 13, 283.