The Market Revolution transformed the United States into a highly industrialized country and acted as the catalyst for the diversity in the United States. However, the core of the Market Revolution was laid upon the desire to maximize profit. To achieve maximum profit, Americans turned to illegal means to acquire cheap land and labor. In the case of the Mexicans, Americans saw the abundance of raw materials in California and Texas and annexed the territories through border dispute. The Mexican landowners were left vulnerable to the American legal structures and lost the title to their lands. Living on the land where “all men were created equal,” the Mexicans were subjected to legal systems that directly contradicted with the founding principle.
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With the fertile lands that signified profit so close within their reaches, the Anglo Americans crafted legal structures that would legally dispossessed the Mexicans from their lands. For example, the removal of land ownership protection in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the treaty signed between the United States and Mexico to end the border disputes in California and Texas, left the Mexicans vulnerable to the land laws in the United States. At first glance, this may be mistaken for a practice of equality because everyone was subjected to the same laws. However, these land laws gave the Anglo Americans advantage over the Mexicans who owned lands without clear boundaries. Lacking these clear boundaries, it became extremely difficult for any Mexicans to prove their land ownership. Many of the Mexicans were dispossessed from their lands and became laborers on the land they once owned. Through enforcing these land laws, the Anglo Americans not only successfully gained the fertile lands from the Mexicans, but they also acquired cheap labor that could maximize their profits. The Mexicans were being forced to abide by laws set to maintain the social superiority of the Anglo Americans; the land laws did not provided the equality that was promised in the founding
With the fertile lands that signified profit so close within their reaches, the Anglo Americans crafted legal structures that would legally dispossessed the Mexicans from their lands. For example, the removal of land ownership protection in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the treaty signed between the United States and Mexico to end the border disputes in California and Texas, left the Mexicans vulnerable to the land laws in the United States. At first glance, this may be mistaken for a practice of equality because everyone was subjected to the same laws. However, these land laws gave the Anglo Americans advantage over the Mexicans who owned lands without clear boundaries. Lacking these clear boundaries, it became extremely difficult for any Mexicans to prove their land ownership. Many of the Mexicans were dispossessed from their lands and became laborers on the land they once owned. Through enforcing these land laws, the Anglo Americans not only successfully gained the fertile lands from the Mexicans, but they also acquired cheap labor that could maximize their profits. The Mexicans were being forced to abide by laws set to maintain the social superiority of the Anglo Americans; the land laws did not provided the equality that was promised in the founding