Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

The U.S and Britain signed the Treaty of Ghent and made several agreements that lead to better relations between the two. Due to a restricton put on trade by the British americans economy fell but after the treaty , the restriction was lifted and trade resumed and allowed the economy to flourish . Not only did the war of 1812 bring the U.S and britain to better terms but…

United States basically ignores Texas’s requests to be annexed. In 1844 Texas begins asking to be annexed again but in 1845 Mexico and Texas signs the Cuevas-Smith treaty that entailed that Mexico would recognize Texas independence if they did not annex into the United States but on December 29, 1845 President James K. Polk signed the treaty to allow Texas into the United States. These actions were against the best interests of Mexico therefore making them prone to war now with The United…

Every nation to ever exist had some sense of a national destiny or purpose. “Manifest Destiny” is a phrase used by politicians in the 1840s to explain continental expansion in the United States. Americans felt that it was their destiny and their God given right to expand the United States from the Atlantic to the Pacific. In order to understand Manifest Destiny, it is important to understand the need and desire of the United States to expand and advance. Due to a high birth rate, immigration,…

focuses on the Chicano movement of the 1960s. The better part of the documentary focuses on the leader of the Alianca group, Reis Lopez Tijerina, who led other Mexican people in protesting about the federal land as their own. This was according to the treaty signed between Mexico and the US, twenty years earlier. According to Tijerina and his people, millions of acres of land had been taken from landowning families and years later, the US Forest Service revoked nearly half of the grazing permits…

On the day November 2, 1795 a man named James Polk was born, an important former president that some of you may not even know but you should. James Polk was the eleventh president of the United States of America, and the woman he married was Sarah Childress, they did not have any kids however. During his presidency, he made many expansions to the United States, which if he hadn’t, they’d probably not be part of our grand nation today. Polk was a man of fairness and he believed that every man…

The term “Hispanic” broadly refers to the people, nations, and cultures that have a cultural link to Spain (“Hispanic,” n.d., para. 1). The terms “Latino” or “Latina” refer to people with cultural ties to Latin America and people of nationalities within the bounds of Latin America (“Latino,” n.d., para. 1). The term Latino can be used to refer to males or females, whereas the term Latina is used to refer to females only. The terms “Hispanic” and “Latino” can be used interchangeably to…

The california gold rush began in 1849, but when the people first found the gold in Sacramento Valley it was 1848. Some people think that the American’s found gold the first but Mexican’s were actually the first to discover it. The gold didn’t really have value on its own. Many people, mostly men, died for looking for gold. These men were called gold miners and they’d travel by land or by sea. There was a total of two billion worth of gold that was taken from California in 1852. A man named…

Nevada rich and harsh environment it’s shaped its history and culture. Nevada became part of the United States with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo with Mexico in 1848. Americans appeared in 1851 with the mormons. In 1859 Comstock Lode opened the new era of silver mining in Nevada. And the New era attracted thousands, especially from California. In 1910 the discovery of gold and…

and the revolutionaries began to gain momentum. Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla was a middle aged priest living in the parish of Dolores. Hidalgo was a Crillo by birth, and had a pro-Indian sentiment. He organized his revolution through a so called “Literary Club”. The club plotted their uprising to take place in December; however, the plot was uncovered in early September and Hidalgo’s collaborators were arrested. Word reached Hidalgo and he rang his church bells…

This meant that Mexico agrees and recognizes the Rio Grande as The United States southern boundary, and not the Nueces River as disputed in earlier events leading up to the war between the two countries. In addition, to officially ending the war, the treaty also added 7 Mexican territories over to the Unites States, among them presently known as Arizona, Colorado, Utah, and California. The political atmosphere during the turn of the 19 century in the United States had begun its course towards…