PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Civil Wars: Mexican Cession
After Texas joined the United States in 1846, a boundary dispute broke out almost immediately between the United States and Mexico. Texas won it's independence from Mexico, then joined the United States 10 years earlier. The U.S. said the southern boundary of the state should be the Rio Grande, which was further south of the original boundary set on the Nueces River. Fighting broke out because of this. Soon, Congress declared war on Mexico.
The fighting was between the United States and Mexico. The war took place between 1846 to 1848. This war was called the Mexican American War.
In February 1848, Mexico and the United States signed the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo. The treaty recognized Texas as a U.S. state, and ceded a big piece of land (about half the area that belonged to the Mexican republic) to the United States for 15 million dollars.
Change That Was Brought To That Region
- The treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo stated that Mexicans who remained in the state would be permitted to become U. S. citizens, so the United States gained lots of people.
- The Mexican Cession gave the United States land that would later become California, Nevada, and Utah, as well as portions of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming.
- American businessmen, ranchers, railroad companies, and the U.S. Department of the Interior and Department of Agriculture used the new land.
