When Mexico won its independence from Spain in 1821, the territories it possessed included Mexico, most of Central America (Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama) as well as today's US States of California, Nevada, Utah, Texas and parts of Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and Wyoming.
Pope Alexander VI helped broker a treaty between Spain and Portugal over the new lands that the countries had acquired on their voyages.
Pope Alexander VI helped broker a treaty between Spain and Portugal over the new lands that the countries had acquired on their voyages.
Pope Alexander VI helped broker a treaty between Spain and Portugal over the new lands that the countries had acquired on their voyages.
It was the Wilmot Proviso that said any lands acquired from Mexico would not allow slavery. It was written by David Wilmot, who served as a U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania.
Gold and silver.
Viceroyalty of the New Spain
Henry clays plan
The prohibition of slavery in lands acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War.
They were one in the same. New Spain is the name Spanish conquistadors gave to the lands of present-day Mexico.
They were one in the same. New Spain is the name Spanish conquistadors gave to the lands of present-day Mexico.
Spain qualifies as such.
The Wilmot Proviso (1846) prohibited slavery on any land acquired from Mexico.