Title: What were the consequences of the Mexican War for the United States? - eNotes.com
Headings: Western Expansion, Manifest Destiny, and the Mexican-American War
Western Expansion, Manifest Destiny, and the Mexican-American War
What were the consequences of the Mexican War for the United States?
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Content: This would have made Texas much smaller than it is today. We insisted the boundary was at the Rio Grande River. As a result of this war, the boundary was set at the Rio Grande River. This is the current border. We also were able to gain a lot of land from Mexico in what is now the southwest part of the United States. We got California, Utah and Nevada. We also got parts of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Wyoming. By getting these lands, we achieved our goal of expanding from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. Gaining these lands did increase the discussion and division about the spread of slavery as the North and South differed about whether slavery should or shouldn't in these newly acquired lands. Whether slavery should or shouldn't spread was a factor that led to the Civil War.