The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is an agreement, signed on February 2, 1848, at Guadalupe Hidalgo, which is a city north from the capital of Mexico, between the United States and Mexico that marked the end of the Mexican War. With the defeat of the troops and the fall of the Mexican capital on September 1847, the Mexican government surrendered to the United States and wanted negotiations between the United States to end the war. Signing the treaty was only the beginning of the process because it still had to be approved by the congresses of both the United States and Mexico. No one could tell how the Polk administration would receive a treaty negotiated by an unofficial agent, and could they know the goods and the negative things of the Mexican political scene for the next few months. In both the U.S. and Mexican governments there was opposition to the treaty. In the United States, the northern abolitionists opposed the annexation of Mexican territory. In the Mexican congress, a sizable minority was in favor of continuing the fight. Both countries ratified the document. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo marked the end of the war.…
Nicholas P. Trist signed the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo along with a few other people. The other people that signed the treaty are Luis P Cuevas, Bernardo Couto, and Miguel Atristain. When Mexico signed The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo they signed over a lot of their land. This land is now known as 7 different states, they are New Mexico, Arizona, California, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and Wyoming. President Polk fulfilled his guarantee and did a lot…
In my opinion I think it was just a war,I’m not saying that what the US did was the right way to go about gaining the land.It had been many wars prior and many more to come about land/territories .At this time I think the US was just land hungry and when James K. Polk became president he was able to annexed Texas.Through his actions this made Mexico mad which lead the the Mexican-American War.At the end of the war american gained the land but still had conflicts about slavery and it being a free territory.Mexico should of been careful with welcoming in American immigrants because sometimes you cannot trust everybody.But in all fairness Texas became better because the Mexico government was already…
The Mexican American War began on April 25, 1846. The war lasted two years losing many men on both sides. The Mexican war was the third major fought by the United States. In 1810, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla triggers the beginning of Mexico’s fight for independence from Spain. Mexico gained its independence in 1821 after a long and bloody revolution against Spain. For Mexico, the war between them and the United States was a fight to keep their institutions and national integrity intact, to protect themselves from present and future aggressions by the Americans, but more than anything else, the war was a struggle for land. In the early days of the republic, most Americans made their living by farming, so in 1803 President Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Purchase Territory because he wanted to provide “room enough for out descendants to the thousandth and ten thousandth generation.” In 1803 the United States purchased land from Napoleon west of the Mississippi, also known as the Louisiana Purchase. The Unites States nearly doubled in size, extending its borders two thirds of the way from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. In 1804-1806 the Lewis and Clark expedition explores western North America. Mexico had a population of only about 2,500 living in Texas, they offered cheap land to attract Americans and build up the territory. Mexico only allowed one religion which was Catholicism and for everyone to follow the teachings of the church. The U.S government marked the route of the Santa Fe Trail so settlers in New Mexico can get goods from the U.S that they have not been able to get from Mexico. By the early 1800s many of the inhabitants of Mexico didn’t like the Spanish Rule and wanted to establish a democratic government. In 1810 there were several executions. The gachupines (those born in Spain) executed Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla who had led a large group of mestizos (the offspring of mixed marriages) who were rebels in…
In the spring of 1848, the congresses of the United States and Mexico ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo thereby ending the Mexican- American War and finally settling the two nations’ tenuous border dispute over Texas. According to the terms of the treaty, Mexico ceded over…
The Mexican War was one of the most influential events that contributed the increasing separation of the union. Much conflict arose on whether Texas and California should be free or slave states. One of the men who tried to resolve this conflict was Henry Clay. Along with Stephen Douglas, he drafted what came to be known as the Compromise of 1850. It declared California a free state, abolished the slave trade in D.C, gained the New Mexico territory (which was to be organized through popular sovereignty), rearranged the Texas boundary, and passed the Fugitive Slave Law. Although it seemed like a good plan, it had flaws, which disappointed and angered many people. The people of Texas were angered because, a large portion of their land had been taken for New Mexico (Document A). It seemed that what angered one group, made the other happy. This was all because of the growing disunity over the ridiculous question of slavery.…
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo gave Mexicans the right to remain in United States territory or to move to Mexico. About three thousand chose to…
In 1848, the Mexican-American War ended. The United States’ victory resulted in them now having ownership of large amounts of Mexican territory. Many of the residents were offered American citizenship in which they thought meant they would now be treated equally; they were wrong.…
"The United States of America and the United Mexican States animated by a sincere desire to put an end to the calamities of the war which unhappily exists between the two Republics and to establish Upon a solid basis relations of peace and friendship, which shall confer reciprocal benefits upon the citizens of both, and assure the concord, harmony, and mutual confidence wherein the two people should live, as good neighbors." The treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which was signed at the end of the Mexican War, was implemented to give the rights to the thousands of Mexicans that lived in the border. The treaty establish borders and most importantly gave citizenship rights to the Mexicans stated in the article IX of the treaty by saying "The Mexicans who, in the…
After the United States victory in the Mexican-American War in 1848 a forced treaty was signed. The treaty was known as Treaty…
The Mexican war was a war worth fighting for a few reason. The first key reason that we should have fought this war is that it was in the best interest of the country at the time and the many people in the U.S. believed in manifest destiny which was the belief that the expansion of the U.S. was justified and important. Another reason that this war would have been justified is that at the time was that mexico was a fairly new country. They had only gained independence from spain about 20 years before the mexican war. The U.S. didn’t think that Mexico was capable of controlling the amount of land that they claimed as theirs. It said in Document A that, “Mexico never can exert any real government over such a country” A third reason that this…
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed in 1948, ended the Mexican-American War. The treaty doubled the size of the United States and halved the size of Mexico, as it stated that Mexico give the United States Texas and accept the Rio Grande as Texas’s boundary, as well as sell New Mexico and Upper California to the United States for fifteen million dollars. Conditions of the treaty included that any Mexicans currently living in the territories that were now owned by the United States could become U.S. citizens and gave the U.S. power to deal with any “problematic” Native Americans on the U.S. side of the border. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo sparked many lasting controversies and political/social issues still present today. Some of the effects of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo are the end of slavery in the United States and the negative stereotypes of Mexicans held by Americans.…
The treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the Mexican-American war in 1848 and under this treaty the United States gained about 900,000 square miles of land and additional 30,000 square miles purchased for 10 million dollars. Today, this makes up southwestern states of Arizona, California, Nevada, Texas, Utah, parts of Colorado. Close to 80,000 Mexicans chose to stay with the land and the U.S. promised to give rights to the Mexicans who remained in the new territories of New Mexico, Texas and California after two years. These Mexicans were supposed to become full U.S. citizens and be given the privileges of the citizenship. Most of the promises were not kept or honored by the United States. Instead, individual states decided which Hispanic Americans were given the right to vote and participate in other benefits of citizenship. In some states, the Hispanic Americans that were given rights were the ones who were of Anglo heritage with descendants from white countries. Hispanics from black or Indian heritage were not given the full right of…
The Mexicans were robbed of their land, their peace, and their laws. America hurt Mexico because of the things it took. In Document A we saw that Americans said that they took Texas. Mexico felt as if they had been robbed. Land had been stolen from them and they were not okay with it.The United States stole Texas because they did not pay for it. Mexico was not okay with them taking it either. This implies that the US took what did not belong to them which means that they stole the land. The Americans also robbed the Mexicans from their peace. Before America showed up in their lands they had an amount of peace. They were not worried about their borders. Then Americans showed up and their peace left because it was replaced by war. They now had…
I am an extremely proud Mexican citizen living in a New Mexican territory. I have been given land by the King of Spain and have recently received the details of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The treaty portrays insincerity and presents us with an unjustifiable position. The result of the treaty would put us in an even worse situation than we are in now. My points should be recognized because I am very knowledgeable about the treaty, my family has been living in the territory of New Mexico for many generations, I am a strong follower of God, and I know what is best for Mexico. We, as the country of Mexico, can’t sign the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo as we will lose much of our land for a small cost, we will not be given U.S. citizenship immediately, and our land grants will not be honored which will lead to an abominable future for the country of Mexico.…