Treaty Of Guadalupe Hidalgo Essay

In February 2, 1848 a treaty was signed that treaty was signed in Villa de Guadalupe Hidalgo, that treaty was then called the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was a peace treaty to gain peace between Mexico and the United States, the U.S. and Mexico had been having some problems between each other like wars and a lot of bad things. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the Mexican-American war(war between the U.S. and Mexico!) This treaty would forever change the way that the Mexicans and the Americans would look at each other.

Before the treaty started Mexico was having some government problems, Santa Anna(Mexico’s president) was elected in 1833. In 1835 Texans declared the territory that they had independent …show more content…
When Nicholas Trist kept demanding for the original demand of 15 million dollars, Mexico stopped the salary. Trust then started getting his minimum demand from the senate, after Mexico stopped the salary. One thing that the U.S. helped Mexico with is that they U.S. tried to help and stop Indian raids so that Mexico could live with peace, which was all part of the treaty. One of the things that Mexico lost that was pretty crucial to them was New Mexico and California, which were basically as you would say trophies for them. When the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was ratified the United States Senate took out the article X, which stated that the U.S. government would respect and guarantee all land grants awarded in lands handed over to the U.S. to people of Spain and Mexico by those respected by the governments. They also changed the article IX’s first paragraph and also eliminating the last two sentences in that article. The sold land that Mexico gave to the U.S. was the Rio Grande, this was the boundary between Mexico and the U.S. On 30 December 1853, they countries agreed to increase the border makers from 6 to