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
On the Significance of War, or Why Conquest is Not Necessarily Conquest: The Case of the Nineteenth-Century United States–Mexican BorderOne strand of recent work on the nineteenth-century borderlands between the United States and Mexico attempts to overturn Anglo-American conventional wisdom by ...
The Emancipation Proclamation is an edict issued by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, that freed the enslaved people of the Confederate states during the American Civil War. Besides lifting the war to the level of a crusade for human fre
What Is The Significance Of The Mexican American War The Mexican-American war is one of the most important conflicts that the U.S. had to this date. It is what seemed to be an inevitable war all due to the Jacksonian era and its aggressive manifest destiny. Thi...
Maintaining the balance of the number of free and slave states in the Senate was important to the Whigs because it meant that no one group would have more political power than the other. The Mexican-American War in 1846, threatened to disrupt the balance of free and slave states. Northern ...
The Compromise of 1850 was made up of five bills that attempted to resolve disputes over slavery in new territories added to the United States in the wake of the Mexican-American War (1846-48). It admitted California as a free state, left Utah and New Mexico to decide for themselves wheth...
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The primary reason for the Gadsden Purchase was to obtain land that would allow for the construction of a Southern Transcontinental Railroad. Additionally, this agreement aimed to resolve some remaining conflicts between the United States and Mexico following the Mexican-American War, which had ended ...
The eastern Apaches moved into the high deserts and mountainous regions of the Southwest. Apaches continued their raids into Mexico and the American Southwest and also attacked immigrant wagon trains. TheAnnexation of Texas (1845), theMexican-American War (1846–1848), theTreaty of Guadalupe Hidal...
American Civil War, four-year war (1861–65) fought between the United States and 11 Southern states that seceded to form the Confederate States of America. It arose out of disputes over slavery and states’ rights. When antislavery candidate Abraham Lin