*The Treaty Of Guadalupe Hidalgo *

MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR: 1946-48

On May 13, 1846, the U.S. Congress voted for President James Polk's ask for to announce war on Mexico in a disagreement about Texas. Under the danger of war, the United States had shunned attaching Texas after the latter won autonomy from Mexico in 1836. However, in 1844, President John Tyler (1790-1862) restarted transactions with the Republic of Texas, coming full circle with an arrangement of addition.

The bargain was crushed by a wide edge in the U.S. Senate since it would irritate the slave sans state adjusts amongst North and South and gambled war with Mexico, which had severed relations with the United States. In any case, presently before leaving office and with the help of President-elect Polk (1795-1849), Tyler figured out how to get a congressional determination passed and afterward, on March 1, 1845, marked into law. Texas was admitted to the association on December 29 of that year.

While Mexico didn't finish its danger to announce war, relations between the two countries stayed tense over the fringe debate, and in July 1845, President Polk requested troops into questioned lands that lay between the Nueces and the Rio Grande waterways. In November, Polk sent the negotiator John Slidell (1793-1871) to Mexico to look for limit alterations as a byproduct of the U.S. government's settlement of the cases of American residents against Mexico and furthermore to make an offer to buy California and New Mexico. After the mission fizzled, the U.S. Armed forces under General Zachary Taylor progressed to the mouth of the Rio Grande, the waterway that the territory of Texas guaranteed to its southern limit.

Mexico, guaranteeing that the limit was the Nueces River to the upper east of the Rio Grande, considered the progress of Taylor's armed force a demonstration of animosity and in April 1846 sent troops over the Rio Grande. Polk, thus, proclaimed the Mexican progress to be an intrusion of U.S. soil, and on May 11, 1846, requested that Congress announce war on Mexico, which it completed two days after the fact.

Arrangement OF GUADALUPE HIDALGO: FEBRUARY 2, 1848

Following the thrashing of the Mexican armed force and the fall of Mexico City, in September 1847, the Mexican government surrendered and peace transactions started. The war authoritatively finished on February 2, 1848, marking in Mexico of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The bargain included an extra 525,000 square miles to the U.S. an area, including the land that makes up all or parts of present-day Colorado, Nevada, California, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming and Arizona. Mexico additionally surrendered all cases to Texas and perceived the Rio Grande as America's southern limit. Consequently, the United States paid Mexico $15 million and consented to settle all cases of U.S. natives against Mexico.

MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR: AFTERMATH

Despite the fact that Polk's war was effective, he lost open help after about two wicked and exorbitant years of battling. Moreover, the disputable war reignited the servitude augmentation banter about that would at last outcome in the American Civil War in the 1860s.

Polk did not look for re-race after his first term, and passed on at age 53 in June 1849, three months in the wake of leaving office. Zachary Taylor, who turned into a national saint amid the Mexican-American War, kept running for president in the 1848 race and won. Be that as it may, 16 months after his introduction, Taylor turned out to be sick and passed on.

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