Title: Impact on the US · Texas History from Mexican Territory to a U.S. State · Young American Republic
Headings: Impact on the US
Impact on the US
Content: Mexico, thinking it was further back, crossed the Rio Grande, and this was seen as an invasion. Congress declared war on Mexico. There were positives to come out of this war though. The US would win and acquire a huge plot of land through the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, as well as the Gadsden purchase in 1854. This land would eventually become Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming from Guadalupe Hidalgo and extra parts of Arizona and New Mexico from the Gadsden Purchase. 7 This would lead to the reduction of Mexico by over half its land. While the territories won provided more land for the US, it brought about very heated debates about who should be a slave state and who should be free, and eventually the Civil War broke out. ← Annexation of Texas
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Impact on the US