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After the Texas Annexation (when America admitted Texas into the Union as the 28th state), America claimed that Mexico was trespassing onto American soil. America claimed that the border between Mexico and The United States was the Rio Grande River. However, Mexico said it was the Nueces River. Many people believe that America claimed that the border was the Rio Grande River so they could easily acquire more land from Mexico.
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Why did the Us. go to war with Mexico in 1846?
Border dispute
What A dispute over the border started which war?
Mexican War
The New Mexico-Texas border dispute would be settled in favor of who?
texas
What was the Mexican-American war about?
TheMexican AmericanWar (Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo) was about a treaty of peace between Mexico and the United States which ended the Mexican American War.
What were James K. Polks contributions to America?
As a result of winning the Mexican War, California, New Mexico and Arizona,as well as parts North, were added to the union and the border between Texas and Mexico was firmed up and secured. He also settled with a treaty with Britain, a dispute over the Northern border of the Oregon territory.
Solving the border dispute between Texas and New Mexico was part of the?
Compromise of 1850
What Solving a border dispute between Texas and New Mexico was a part of?
Compromise of 1850
When did Mexico stop payments on its debt to the US because of dispute over the Texas-Mexico border?
sometime in the 1840's
What border dispute led to the Mexican American war?
Texas
Did a dispute over claims to the gold discovered in California cause the Mexican-American War?
No. The discovery of gold in 1848 came after the war. The war was a dispute caused directly by the US annexation of Texas and disagreements over the border line in the New Mexico Territory, which included Arizona, and the refusal of Mexico to sell a portion of it to the US. The US also invaded and took Alta (upper) California during the war.
What was the cause of the American war?
a dispute over the border between the two countries.
Why did the United declare war on Mexico?
The Mexican-American War was a land dispute over Texas, New Mexico and Baja California.
