Why don't people believe that we took California, New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada from Mexico?

Question

The Mexican - American war occurred between 1846 and 1848. We invaded Mexican territory and we took these states - a lot of people wanted to take all of Mexico. I don't know why that is so hard for us to believe. It's well documented. I think we just want to forget it and sweep it under the rug like our Native American genocidal acts.

Answer 1

Same reason most of them are missing the point of your question.

Same reason little kids believe that Mommy is the living embodiment of perfection and incapable of doing wrong. It's not "I love my mother, imperfections and all" but "My Mommy is perfect and I'll have a tantrum if you say she isn't!"

Some people believe what they want to believe. The rest of us grow up and believe what the facts tell us to be true.

Answer 2

I don`t know where you get your information hon, But what makes you think we don`t believe and know about the war with Mexico? We do know about it. We do not deny it..

However we did WIN that war, The land does belong to us. What do you think needs to be done.. Should we just move? I lost relatives in that war. I certainly will never give up what they died for..

And no one ignores the tragic Indian tale either.. We hurt and feel horrible about it. But good gosh that was a long time ago. What should we do now? Do you think telling them I am so sorry is gonna make ANY difference ? Should we allot some more land they don`t want and give it to them OH NO, I know we should just give them all money.. Hmmmm, I think we already paid them for the land.. When the war ended.. And we signed the PEACE treaty.. Why don`t you uphold the treaty that was signed?

I mean it is useless to keep beating a dead horse.. Let it go. How can we heal if people like you keep picking the scabs..

What is you would like to gain with this question? I don`t understand the point you are trying to get across. It seems like you are just stirring up a pile of poop..

Let`s stop the hate. What is done, Awful as it was, is done. Now we need to stop hating and learn to love.. Love conquers all.

God bless & hugs from Texas. {:-)
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Answer 3

i wonder what would happen to these places if americans did not take them ,

by the way, The Spain leader was the one who gave it away

so in other words, Spain took it from Mexico and gave it to the USA on some kind on a life agreement between the Spainish general and USA.

However, imagine that LA is in Mexico , Cali would be like the poorest state ever...Look at the Americanss made cali, one of the best states ever...

I am not an american nither a mexican,, so i might have afair point of view

Answer 4

No one is sweeping anything under the rug. We got most of the land from Mexico under the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, and the rest via the Gadsden Purchase. From my listed source:

By the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, signed February 2, 1848, at the close of the Mexican War, the Republic of Mexico was compelled to abandon its claim to Texas and to cede to the United States the territory now comprising most of New Mexico, Arizona, California, Colorado, Utah and Nevada. The territory ceded to the United States by Mexico constituted about 200,000 square miles or two-fifths of all her territory.

In return for this vast territory, the United States gave $15,000,000 and assumed responsibility for paying $3,000,000 in claims of American citizens against the Mexican Government. A large body of public opinion in the United States had opposed the war against Mexico and felt that the Southern republic had been treated badly. The territory desired by Gadsden and his group was then a sort of no man's land, experiencing frequent Indian raids. The United States wanted to make certain "boundary adjustments"; Mexico needed money and wanted a settlement of her Indian claims against the United States; and Gadsden and his friends wanted a route for their railroad. In 1852 Gadsden agreed to pay Santa Anna $10,000,000 for a strip of territory south of the Gila River and lying in what is now southwestern New Mexico and southern Arizona.

Mexico signed it over by treaty because they lost the war, pure and simple. That sort of thing happens, or has happened, in war. Are you suggesting we give it back? If so, why not just give the whole country back and all of us move back to where our ancestors came from? Note to liberals: I'm kidding.

Answer 5

I'm a person and I believe it. Mexico gave us a much better deal than the USA in so far as taxes and protection. Texas was played like a harp from hell as most Texans wanted to remain under Mexican protection but there is big money to be made in war by the few who don't have to fight it. We all know how much support Jim Bowie and his cronies got at the Alamo from fellow Texans.

Answer 6

What silly people are denying this? We also took thirteen colonies from the English. And why are you so anti-American in your thinking? All countries were established, in one way or another, through armed conflict. Our wars, which seem so heinous to you, are no different than all the other wars fought throughout the world to create nations. So are we supposed to "correct" our history, while no other nation is required to do so? Should all Americans just commit suicide so the Mexicans and Native Americans can have "their land" back? History is history. And, inevitably, it is messy. That's why we're supposed to learn from it.

Answer 7

WE didn't take it we won it in war, and we paid the Mexican government 15 million, that was a huge amount of money back then. plus we relieved Mexico of it's debt to the Americans which was a few million. Just type in Mexican American war, you can read about it.

Answer 8

a million - No they don't seem a similar usa, one is america of united statesa. and the different is america of MEXICO 2 - the US has former land that replaced into Mexico's at one element. This got here about after the US defeated Mexico in the US-Mexican conflict. 3 - Neither usa is struggling with for land in case you're reffering to mexico and the US. in case you're reffering to the middle east, muslims and jews wrestle for sacred grounds that believe that belong to them. 4 - Neither usa has an authentic faith as of to which stay because that they are both independent international locations with freedom of religion and therefor can not say "We" 5 - definite, Earth has been a similar for thousands of years yet no longer thousands and thousands, in case you open a technology e book it really is going to coach that all continents were once all one piece of land that sped up by time. 6 - international locations wrestle for land to improve their resourses and performance a much wider land to stay in. 7 - Religiously speaking in the judeo/christian religions, definite god made each thing. yet no longer on the issue of to different religions like greek religions and buddist.

Answer 9

To the extent it is true, and much of it was paid for, it is ours now. Just as Mexico was taken by the Spanish from the Aztecs.

People are not illegally trying to enter an Indian reservation, and Mexico is what illegal immigrants are trying to LEAVE. What they want is the subsidized benefits for the poor paid for by middle and higher income American taxpayers, as well as the American economy. Neither of those ever belonged to Mexico.

Answer 10

To the Victors goes the spoils. The land was ceded by Mexico at the close of the war when the treaty was signed with Mexico.

Do you think we will give them back, Naw I think they are ours to keep now that they are states of the United States.

We never want to forget what was won in a fair war that was won by the good guys.

I hope this has been of some use to you, good luck.

"FIGHT ON"

Answer 11

Yes, and you are forgetting Texas, although Texas wanted to be completely separate (country - separate war in the 1830's) but found it was not fiscally or logistically possible so they joined/annexed to the US.

You are also forgetting that the PEOPLE living in the areas were tired of living under ever-changing and violent Mexican rule, so they wanted to separate from Mexico.