Causes Of The Mexican American War

In 1848, the United States of America has been the most powerful presence in Northern America. This power allowed the states a lot of freedom to expand their borders, which naturally caused them to have issues with their neighbors. The Mexican American war the very first, which was actually fought on foreign soil. Something they were not used to. After settling a good portion of the United States, they looked to the Mexican territory for conquering. Mexico and America have been neighbors for a while and tensions ran high between them since they were both looking for new territories. When Texas gained independence from Mexico, the state became an independent zone between the two countries. Both countries had interests in the zone, which resulted
Many Americans don’t believe that the war was the Americans fault but the Mexicans view this war as the Invasion of the U.S. Their main reason was the dispute over the territory Texas. When the United States finally decided to annex Texas into their territory, the Mexican government though that doing this sort of thing was illegal. Mexico believed that the United States had broken the boarder treaty of 1828, which stated clearly that Mexico still had sovereignty over that territory. Not only was it a violation of the treaty but it was also a violation of the principles of the international law. When the United States decided to do this, Mexico didn’t know which laws they were going to break next and when they were going to stop which made Mexico feel threatened. Mexico felt like they should defend themselves and finally they decided to try to do this peacefully. They sent a representative to the Capitol of the United States to figure out this dispute in the most peaceful and quiet way possible. Even with the efforts to settle this, America not only refused to cooperate, but they also demanded that they receive control of the New Mexico and California territories. They finally decided to pass a decree that didn’t declare war on America but instead one that would allow them to defend against the expansion and invasion of the United
After a full scale-war the United States finally defeated the Mexicans. The States decided to ratify a Treaty on March 10, 1848 called the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. This gave the States New Mexico and California as well as 500,000 square miles. After the treaty, Mexico ended up getting new borders in the Rio Grande. The United States did not just take this territory though; they paid Mexico 15 million dollars for the land, which at the time was a lot of money. All this dispute and fighting was the result of the 2 nations which disputed over natural resources, the different ideologies, the annexing of Texas and the dispute over