Title: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo - Manifest Destiny and the Mexican-American War
Headings: Manifest Destiny and the Mexican-American War
Manifest Destiny and the Mexican-American War
WESTWARD EXPANSION COMPLETED AT GUADALUPE HIDALGO
"...negotiated by an unauthorized agent, with an unacknowledged government, submitted by an accidental President to a dissatisfied Senate..."
-Former New York City Mayor Philip Hone's sentiment of the Treaty (Herring 205).
*unauthorized agent: Trist acted alone against Polk's recall order
*unacknowledged government: Mexico's temporary government within the chaos
*accidental President: Polk had no intention to submit those terms
*dissatisfied Senate: divided over the after-War issue: Whigs wanted no cession of land; some Democrats wanted all of Mexico
back to Negative War Reactions go to Trist and Polk

Content: Polk had no intention to submit those terms
*dissatisfied Senate: divided over the after-War issue: Whigs wanted no cession of land; some Democrats wanted all of Mexico
-Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: brought peace and official end of a bitter war between Mexico and the United States on March 10, 1848 after Congressional ratification
MEXICAN OUTCOME: Mexico ceded California, New Mexico, and Texas above the Rio Grande River for 15 million dollars. -more than half of prewar Mexican land was lost
AMERICAN OUTCOME: full extension of boundaries of United States to Pacific Ocean and officially completed western expansion of land. Manifest Destiny was achieved in terms of continental westward expansion. -access to the Pacific and trade with the Asia
-vast resources, including gold in California (California Gold Rush of 1849)
-no more problem with the Mexicans, who were now exclusively south of the US
The USA had no more competition on the North American continent: