War with Mexico and Its Sectional Outcomes

War with Mexico

Causes of War

      Economic Expansion:

      Playing Politics:

            British Interests in Texas

            Slave State Power Grab

      Ideas:

            Manifest Destiny

                  John L. O’Sullivan

Two Wars:

      California

      Mexico

Outcome:

A. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)

1. Mexican cession of 525,000 square miles

2. U.S. pays $15 million

3. U.S. assumes $3.25 million in debt to Mexico

B. Gadsen Purchase: $10 million

C. Trouble: (imbalance)

COMPROMISE OF 1850

     1845: 15-13   (Texas and Florida)

     1846: 15-14 (Iowa)

     1848: 15-15 (Wisconsin)

1.                       Fugitive Slave Act

2.                       Popular Sovereignty in new territories

3.                       Cali in as Free State

4.                       resolved boundary dispute btw. Texas

and New Mexico

5.                       abolish slave trade in D.C.

Two Articles from Treaty of G-H

ARTICLE VIII

Mexicans now established in territories previously belonging to Mexico, and which remain for the future within the limits of the United States, as defined by the present treaty, shall be free to continue where they now reside, or to remove at any time to the Mexican Republic, retaining the property which they possess in the said territories, or disposing thereof, and removing the proceeds wherever they please, without their being subjected, on this account, to any contribution, tax, or charge whatever.

Those who shall prefer to remain in the said territories may either retain the title and rights of Mexican citizens, or acquire those of citizens of the United States. But they shall be under the obligation to make their election within one year from the date of the exchange of ratifications of this treaty; and those who shall remain in the said territories after the expiration of that year, without having declared their intention to retain the character of Mexicans, shall be considered to have elected to become citizens of the United States.

In the said territories, property of every kind, now belonging to Mexicans not established there, shall be inviolably respected. The present owners, the heirs of these, and all Mexicans who may hereafter acquire said property by contract, shall enjoy with respect to it guarantees equally ample as if the same belonged to citizens of the United States.

ARTICLE IX

The Mexicans who, in the territories aforesaid, shall not preserve the character of citizens of the Mexican Republic, conformably with what is stipulated in the preceding article, shall be incorporated into the Union of the United States. and be admitted at the proper time (to be judged of by the Congress of the United States) to the enjoyment of all the rights of citizens of the United States, according to the principles of the Constitution; and in the mean time, shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty and property, and secured in the free exercise of their religion without; restriction.