Polk was pushing American expansionism (Manifest Destiny) interests westward towards California. Leading up to this blatant act of war President Polk had secretly offered Mexico $25 million dollars for the Rio Grande border in Texas and additional Mexican providences Alta California and Santa Fe de Nuevo Mexico1. ... It set the southern boundary of Texas at the Rio Grande, including the Nueces Strip4. ... The United States received more than 525,000 square miles (1,360,000 square km) of land (now Arizona, California, western Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah) from Mexico and in re...

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Tallmadge's gradual emancipation proviso received almost unanimous opposition from Southern Congressmen. ... Some Northerners feared that the annexation of Texas was part of a Southern conspiracy to extend American territory south into Mexico and South America, thereby creating unlimited new slave states. ... Lasting about 1 ½ years, it was fought throughout Texas, New Mexico, California and into the Mexican interior. ... In the end the U.S. won and acquired Texas, New Mexico and California. ... The Compromise was designed to relieve growing tension by allowing for admission of Californi...

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In fact, the entire southwestern area of the US, including California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and parts of New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas, once belonged to Mexico. ... Mexico had no choice but to sign the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, which "forced Mexico to cede all of California and New Mexico to the United States" (Davidson 291). ... Although this war caused conflict and bloodshed with our southern neighbor, Mexico, it also made America one of the greatest nations of the world. ...

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Most of these settlers were slave-holding plantation owners from the southern United States. ... Additionally, they were committed to annexing New Mexico and California to the United States. ... Mexico capitulated and ceded California and New Mexico to America in the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848. ... They still wanted California and New Mexico, and virtually instigated war in order to acquire those territories as well. ...

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Van Buren's action angered the Southern delegates he was campaigning to for the Democratic nomination. ... The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo turned over New Mexico and California to the United States for $15 Million, established the Rio Grande as the border between Texas and Mexico, and promised that the U.S. government would assume substantial claims of American citizens against Mexico. The United States gained 500,00 square miles of land as a result of the Mexican American war in the area of the present day states of California, Utah, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, and parts of Colorado a...

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President Polk wanted to secure the boundary dispute over the setting boundary at the Rio Grande and to the sale of northern California. ... According to Mexico, "Texas's southern boundary was the Nueces River, not the Rio Grandes claimed by Texas" (1, 272), "the Nueces River had always been Texas's boundary when it was a Mexican providence" (1, 272). ... s openly declared ambition to acquire California and New Mexico. ... After the annexation of Texas they decided to offer Mexico nearly $32 million for what they wanted which was a clear title of the Rio Grande bo...

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Many believe that President Polk, with his aggressive promises and desire to gain California at all costs, was the main cause of the Mexican-American War. ... A last suspected cause for the war is the desire of the southern states to gain more slave states. ...

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Instead Polk made Slidell permanent minister and instructed him to open negotiations for the sale of California. ... Polk was very anxious to purchase California from Mexico and he knew that Mexico would refuse to give it up. ... When Lincoln was elected, Southern states were convinced that he would abolish slavery. ... Polk wanted both California and Mexico and he did, but the war dragged on too long with many lives lost and more money than he wanted to use. ...

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Many southern Americans had migrated ito texas when it was part of Mexico so the South was keen to make it part of the Union. ... Agriculturally plentiful areas like Oregon and California (more popular in the late 1840's after the discovery of gold in 1848) attracted large numbers of settlers , as settlers moved west it was important that there still was some sort of laws and morals. ... In particular Polk desired California, both for it's rich agricultural land and that it was a gateway to the Pacific Ocean, the fact that America would become both a Pacific and an Atlantic country ...

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Ideally, the intent was to set the boundaries of the continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean so acquiring lands west of the Mississippi River and southern territories were the main objective. ... This territory includes modern day California, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico. ... Mexico claimed that the southern border of Texas only extended to the Nueces River, while Texas insisted that its border stretched to the Rio Grande. ...

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Mexico had inherited the provinces of California, New Mexico and Texas from Spain. ... At this time, Mexican territory included present-day Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, the western and southern portions of Colorado, and California. ... The southern boundary of Texas had always been the Nueces River and still was to Mexico, but the United States extended the boundary to claim all the territory north of the Rio Grande (Mexican-American War (Causes)). ...

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What became in time the Hispano homeland, the Upper Rio Grande, is a vast arid region defined by a life-giving river that descends from the steep southern ranges of the Rocky Mountains through the barren plateaus of the north to the Chihuahuan desert of the south. ... In 1848, The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ceded the Southwest, from Texas to California, to the United States. ...

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Many states have there own hate crime laws, like Alabama and the majority of the southern states. Colorado and states like California also have hate crime laws to help protect those of different races, disabilities, and of sexual orientation. ...

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It also shows the reason why California will net the next state of the Unites States. ... According of the Background Essay, when it says " In July 1845, he sent 70 American troops under General Zachary Taylor into the disputed area of the Southern Texas. ...

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