To end the Mexican-American War a treaty was negotiated and the
US paid Mexico TWENTY MILLION DOLLARS ($20,0000.00) and Mexico gave the United
States the Rio Grande as a boundary for Texas, and gave the U.S.
ownership of California and a large area comprising roughly half
of New Mexico,
most of Arizona, Nevada,
and Utah,
and parts of Wyoming and Colorado.
To End the US Trade deficit with Mexico, Mexico can forgive the
trade deficit and the US will cede California back to Mexico. be
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (Tratado de
Guadalupe Hidalgo in Spanish), officially titled the Treaty of
Peace, Friendship, Limits and Settlement between the United States of America
and the Mexican Republic,[1] is
the peace treaty signed on February 2, 1848,
in the Villa de Guadalupe Hidalgo (now a
neighborhood of Mexico City) between the United States and Mexico that
ended the Mexican–American War(1846–1848). The treaty
came into force on July 4, 1848.[2]
With
the defeat of its army and the fall of its capital, Mexico entered into
negotiations to end the war. The treaty called for the U.S. to pay US$15 million to Mexico and to pay off the
claims of American citizens against Mexico up to US$5 million. It gave the
United States the Rio Grande as a boundary for Texas, and gave the U.S.
ownership of California and a large area comprising roughly half
of New Mexico,
most of Arizona, Nevada,
and Utah,
and parts of Wyoming and Colorado.
Mexicans in those annexed areas had the choice of relocating to within Mexico's
new boundaries or receiving American citizenship with full civil rights.
The U.S. Senate advised and consented to
ratification of the treaty by a vote of 38–14. The opponents of this treaty
were led by the Whigs, who had opposed the war and
rejected Manifest destiny in general, and rejected
this expansion in particular. The amount of land gained by the United States
from Mexico was increased as a result of the Gadsden Purchase of
1853, which ceded parts of present-day southern Arizona and New Mexico to the
United States. Read More
