Chapter 16: Western Expansion and Conflict

Section 2: Results of the Mexican War

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

•Nicholas Trist—U.S. diplomat who negotiated the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Nicholas Trist

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

•Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo—agreement that ended the Mexican War Page from the Treaty

of Guadalupe Hidalgo

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

•Mexico recognized annexation of Texas

•Rio Grande recognized as border of Texas

•U.S. agreed to cover $3.25 million in claims against the Mexican government

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

•Mexico agrees to turn over Mexican Cession to the U.S.

•U.S. pays $15 million for Mexican Cession

•Mexican citizens in territory were to receive U.S. citizenship

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

•Mexican Cession—territory in northern Mexico that was ceded to the United States

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

•Slavery in the new territories

•Issues over Texas’ boundary

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Texas claimed Rio Grande was southern and western boundary

• Claim rejected by Santa Fe

• Debate extended to U.S. Congress

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

•Compromise of 1850—agreement under which Texas gave up land claims in New Mexico

Tejanos & the War

•Tejano loyalty questioned during the Texas Revolution

•Tejanos viewed as enemies during the Mexican war

•Many Tejanos sold property and left Texas

Tejanos & the War

•Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo granted Mexicans American citizenship

•Discrimination continued

•Many Mexican Americans remained

New Migration to Texas•1850-1860: State’s population

increases from 212,592 to 604,215

•Many new settlers were slave holders from the Southern U.S.

•1850-1860: African American population increases from 58,000 to 183,000

New Migration to Texas• Crop failures and

revolutions drove many people out of Europe

• Germans largest European immigrant group

• French, Slavic, Polish, Dutch, Norwegian, Czech, Italian, & Jewish

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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

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Compromise of 1850