After the Mexico America War (1846-1848), there was what’s called the Mexican Cession. This essentially means that a whole bunch of Mexico became US territory. We’re talking Nevada, Utah, almost all of Arizona, roughly a quarter of Colorado, half of New Mexico, and even a little bit...
Learn about the Mexican Cession of 1848, plus the reasons and agreements behind the cession. See a map of the Mexican Cession and a list of its...
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Mexican-American War, war between the U.S. and Mexico from 1846 to 1848. It was caused by a territorial dispute stemming from the United States’ annexation of Texas in 1845 and from contention over whether Texas ended at the Nueces River or the Rio Gran
Westward movement, the populating by Europeans of the land within the continental boundaries of the mainland United States, a process that began shortly after the first colonial settlements were established along the Atlantic coast. Read more about its h
U.S. commissioners to the peace negotiations inParishad been instructed to demand from Spain the cession of the Philippines to the United States; such cession was confirmed with the signing of theTreaty of Parison December 10, 1898. Ratification followed in the U.S. Senate in February 1899, ...
U.S. commissioners to the peace negotiations inParishad been instructed to demand from Spain the cession of the Philippines to the United States; such cession was confirmed with the signing of theTreaty of Parison December 10, 1898. Ratification followed in the U.S. Senate in February 1899, ...
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