US ownership of land from sea to shining sea. Manifest Destiny and tough if Mexico has no interest in selling. Might makes right and the Army with the big battalions will always come out out on top.
Land, specifically California and the Southwest territory. Mexico had it. The US wanted to buy it. Mexico would not sell. When Texas became a US state, the Texas-Mexico border fell into dispute, and the first shots were fired there. The Mexican Army attacked first, killing US soldiers and taking prisoners. Three years later, Mexico was forced to sell California and the American Southwest to the US for the original price which the US offered, $30 million.
Texas borders and the proposed US purchase of Alta California and Nuevo Mexico.
The Mexican American War.
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Was called the Mexican American War. It happened between the Texas War of Independence and the US Civil War.
It started with the struggle over who would control the taxes.
Mexico City.
1846
Texas Territory
The Mexican American War.
In the year 1846.
US won the war.The war began on April 25,1846..
You mean before the Mexican-American War? That was the Nueces Strip.
The US had defeated Mexico in a war that was sparked by conflicting border claims and occupied Mexico City -- their capital. It essentially dictated the terms under which the US acquired the Southwest. They actually paid Mexico for the land though. The negotiations between Britain and US ended up resolving the conflicting claims by establishing terms of earlier treaties to extend all the way to the Pacific Ocean (with a few exceptions) and there was no money exchanged in the process. The US and Britain also did not end up at war over this issue.