Effects of the Mexican-American War.

By: Julie PerisinAlly Scott

Katie O'Brien

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Leaders 

Mexico Leader:      Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna

America Leader:     James K. Polk 

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

-Mexico lands:    -Rio Grande border for Texas-US Lands:    -New Mexico    -California-US payed 15 million for cession which included:    -California    -Nevada    -New Mexico    -Utah    -Arizona    -Parts of Colorado & Wyoming

-Guaranteed Mexicans Freedom of:    -Religion,     -Protection of property    -bilingual elections     -open borders

Effect involving the former Mexican citizens 

• Mexicans who lived in the territories were effected• claims on the lands were ignored as the “easterners”

stole those lands and settled down.• Mexicans tried to regain their lost lands through

lawsuits

"I cannot see by what justification [The United States] comes to us giving us as a condition for the reestablishment of peace...the reunciatipn [forfeit] of our northern frontier from sea and all for the measly sum of 18,250,000 pesos [15 million]" -Manuel Cresencio Rejón, quoted in Manuel Cresencio Rejón, by Daniel Moreno

Gadsden Purchase

-1853, President Franklin Pierce, forced James Gadsen to pay Mexico an additional $10 million for more territory -South of the Gila River.

Gold Impacts the West:   1848:    January:          ~James Marshall           - California            - working on John Sutter’s property            - discovered gold at Sutter’s Mill       

         ~News reached San Francisco            - residents traveled to the Sacramento Valley            

"The news spreads that wonderful 'diggings' have been discovered...[men] rush vulture-like upon the scene and erect a round tent, where, in gambling, drinking, swearing and fighting, the many reproduce Pandemonium...while a few honestly and industriously commence digging for gold, and lo! as if fairy's

wand had been waved...a full-grown mining town hath sprung into existence" 

 -Louise Smith Clappe

Election of 1848

• The Whigs had elected Zachary Taylor• Democrats elected Lewis Cass• Zachary Taylor was elected by both the Democratic and Whig Party

before he chose to proclaim himself a Whig• Zachary Taylor won the race with 1,361,393 popular votes.• This was an open race

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