Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

The United States is a nation of immigrants, which represents a controversial issue in the United States and the world. Benjamin Franklin in the eighteenth century overwrought by myriad German immigrants would vanquish the influence of the British in the country. Irish immigrants in the nineteenth century were abhorred as sluggish alcoholic. In the twenty-first century, similar consternation is conducted against Latin American immigrants, which an extensive majority of the immigrant population…

When the first Americans stepped foot on Texas, the Mexicans already had a set of rules that the American must follow. Most of the American came into Texas illegally, the Americans did not follow Mexico’s laws. This has caused more tension between the Americans and Mexicans. The Mexicans told the Americans if they do not follow the laws they would have to leave Texas. The Americans also had a need to expand their country. That need is called manifest destiny, the Americans loved the idea of…

country in two. In the north slavery was not allowed and in the south slavery was allowed. The particular issue at hand with the Compromise of 1850 is the divisions over slavery in territories gained in the Mexican American War. After the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed on February 2, 1848 it brought an additional 525,000 square miles into the United States territory…

more than one goal. He had four main goals for his presidency. His first goal was to have a lower tariff. Secondly, he wanted to restore the independent treasury. His third goal was to acquire California and he wanted to obtain Oregon. The Oregon Treaty was then…

A Comparative Study of the Irish Potato Famine Migration and the Modern Hispanic Migration There is no doubt that the Irish Potato Famine of the 1800’s and the recent Hispanic Migration movement are the two most influential mass migrations to the United States. People in the millions left their homes voluntarily to cross international borders in search of economic and social opportunity in an industrialized America, where the minorities were gradually becoming represented in politics and…

The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the short-lived Mexican-American War and awarded the United States more than half of Mexico’s territory. As the border moved south to the Rio Grande, between 75,000 and 100,000 Mexican citizens suddenly found themselves living in American territory. They were unfamiliar with their new country’s laws, language, and customs, and although the Treaty had awarded these new Mexican-Americans the full protections and rights of United States citizenship, it…

territory went to the U.S., including what is now Utah, California, Nevada, Arizona and Texas. In the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo the U.S. agreed to pay Mexico $15 million dollars and settle all American claims against the Mexican government. The war was over, and President Polk got what he wanted—at the expense of lost lives and costly years of fighting. A prominent newspaper described the treaty as “a peace which every one will be glad of, but no one will be proud…

been a territory of Mexico, became a state of the United States. This event was the turning point that brought a huge number of people from different states into California for seeking “Gold” as their new future lives. According to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, it was an agreement between two countries…

“resulted in a situation in which everyone...jockeyed for a position...in [a] multiracial terrain” (Ch 2. Gomez. 48.) and thus came the division of social classes all based on race. Where Mexicans were “granted federal citizenship by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo” (Gomez, Ch. 2. 64), but even though they were U.S citizens they weren’t socially accepted as whites. They were the “legal definition of...‘white’” (Ch. 3 Gomez. 83), but were actually portrayed as “drunks”,“semi-civilized”, and…

MEXICO GEOGRAPHY & TOPOGRAPHY Located at the border of the USA and south east to Gutemala is Mexico. Mexico is the 13th largest country in the world. Mexico is over 700 thousand square miles. With it being at least one fifth the size of the USA, Mexico has a population of 120 million people. Mexico can be partitioned into nine topographic locales: the Mexican Plateau, the Sierra Madre Oriental, the Sierra Madre Occidental, the Cordillera Neo-Volcánica, the Gulf Coastal Plain, the Pacific…