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Mexican American War (1846-1848), ​My Mexican War

A provisional government had been established at Queretaro, about 100 miles

northwest of Mexico City, with a former chief of justice of Mexico's Supreme Court,

Manuel de la Pena, as interim president while some states remained in rebellion against

the central government and some, including monarchists, wanted to continue fighting

the United States, but from Mexico, the United States won recognition as having Alto

California, New Mexico and Texas to the Rio Grande. Mexico was agreeing to giving

up a good percentage of its territory, and although the United States was virtually

dictating the terms of the settlement it wanted to give Mexico something and agreed to

pay 15 million dollars for damages, to assume responsibility for 3 million dollars in

claims against Mexico by U.S. In the war, the United States lost 1,721 killed and

11,550 deaths from other causes, mainly disease, and the war cost the federal

government $100,000,000 in 1848 dollars.

The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica. ​.Mexican-American War. ​Encyclopedia Britannica,

1847

Mexican-American War, also called Mexican War, Spanish Guerra de 1847 or

Guerra de Estados Unidos a Mexico was the war between the United States and Mexico

(April 1846 February 1848) beginning from the United States' invasion of Texas in

1845 and from a dispute over whether Texas ended at the Nueces River (Mexican
claim) or the Rio Grande (U.S. In his quickly revised war message delivered to

Congress on May 11, Polk claimed that Mexico had "invaded our territory and shed

American blood on American soil." Following its original plan for the war, the United

States sent its army from the Rio Grande, under Taylor, to invade the heart of Mexico

while a second force, under Col. According to the treaty, which was subsequently

ratified by both national congresses, Mexico ceded to the United States nearly all the

territory now included in the states of New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, California,

Texas, and western Colorado for $15 million and U.S.

NCC Staff. ​The Mexican American War in a Nutshell. ​Constitution Daily, 1846

Mid-May marks two key anniversaries in the conflict between the United States

and Mexico that set in motion the Civil War and led to California, Texas, and eight

other states joining the Union. On May 13, 1846, the United States Congress declared

war on Mexico after a request from President James K. The conflict centered on the

independent Republic of Texas, which opted to join the United States after establishing

its independence from Mexico a decade earlier. Mexico considered the annexation of

Texas as an act of war, and after border skirmishes, President Polk asked for the war

declaration, since in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, only Congress can declare

a war. The pact set a border between Texas and Mexico, and ceded California, Nevada,

Utah, New Mexico, most of Arizona and Colorado, and parts of Oklahoma, Kansas,

and Wyoming to the United States.