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It gained California and the American Southwest.
General Zachary Taylor
We lost the respect of Mexico
Very few of the former Mexican Citizens chose to move south. Most opted to remain where they were for one year and automatically become US Citizens. The impact on the Mexican American War population is that they are huge today in California, Arizona New Mexico. Nevada, Utah and Colarado. In these areas the population grew very large after the Mexican American War.
California and the American Southwest.
The Mexican American War.
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It gained California and the American Southwest.
The Mexican-American war
Many Americans, both US and Mexican citizens, opposed the war. These included Abraham Lincoln, John Quincy Adams, and Henry David Thoreau. Some in the North opposed the Mexican-American war because they were against slavery, and saw the war as adding territory to the South, creating more potential slavery states.
The Mexican-American War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. This treaty gave a lot of Southwestern territory to the United States. The United States gave $15 million to Mexico, and $3.25 million in debt owned to Mexican citizens.
No, Mexican citizens can't get divorced in California if they were married in Mexico. One of the parties would need to be an American citizen.
Francisco "Pancho" Villa is such revolutionary. He raided the border town of Columbus, New Mexico on March 9, 1916.
General Zachary Taylor
At the end of the Mexican-American War (1846-1848)
The Mexican Cession.