Was it really fair how the united states got the southwest?

Question

think about why anybody would give up such perfect land?

does anyone really know how we got it?

how much did we pay for it? was it a good deal

who lived here before the u.s. "bought" it?

please answer any of the above questions with facts and not empty statements.

Answer 1

ALL is fair in love and war

Answer 2

Study the Treaty Of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Also, the Gadsden Purchase and the Pearce Act.
Support the US Border Patrol!

Answer 3

If a country is beaten in a war as Mexico was beaten ,then the lands in question become the spoils of war and thus belong to the victor.The Mexican government received payment for the land and California ,in many millions of dollars.The land belongs to the US and so shall it always belong to this country.We also purchased Louisiana from the French government ,and they are not trying to claim that land.
What part of war ,don't you understand.Mexico lost and was paid for the land.At that time it was only useless desert and thru our hard work it has become a beautiful part of this great country.I'm sure that any one from Mexico that doesn't under stand that are the same people that don't under stand what illegal immigrant means either.
The documentation you seek are in your history books,I read mine ,perhaps you didn't.
I live in Arizona ,I own land and its my land ,no one else put in the money,sweat and hard long days to make it now worth 20 times what I paid for it 15 years ago.Read a history book ,there is much truth to learn.Don't listen to people that don't know this country's history.

Mexican–American War
Date: 1846–1848
Location: Texas, New Mexico, California; Northern, Central and Eastern Mexico; Mexico City
Result: United States victory; Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexican Cession

Combatants
United States Mexico
Commanders
Zachary Taylor
Winfield Scott
Stephen W. Kearney Antonio López de Santa Anna
Mariano Arista
Pedro de Ampudia
Strength
7,000–43,000 18,000–40,000
Casualties
KIA: 1,733
Total dead: 13,283
Wounded: 4,152 25,000 killed or wounded (Mexican government estimate)

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was the peace treaty that ended the Mexican-American War (1846–1848). The treaty provided for the Mexican Cession, in which Mexico ceded 1.36 million km² (525,000 square miles) to the United States in exchange for USD$15 million. The United States also agreed to take over $3.25 million in debts Mexico owed to American citizens.

The cession included parts of the modern-day U.S. states of Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and Wyoming, as well as the whole of California, Nevada, and Utah. The remaining parts of what are today the states of Arizona and New Mexico were later ceded under the 1853 Gadsden Purchase.

Answer 4

Who said life was fair? Is it fair to pick on the US only for things that have been going on since the beginning of time? They sold us the land. And if we owed them anything at all because of the price we paid I think we've more than paid the bill by taking care of millions of their poor entitled-feeling citizens. Look at all the opportunities they have stolen from our citizens and then ask if we owe them anything! PAID IN FULL!

Answer 5

It was how things were done, and how they got it to begin with. And those who lived here before the US fought for and bought it became Americans.

Answer 6

Fair?? what's fair in this world
Read American history and find out
Read history and find out
Read history and find out
or if you want a short version, go to Wikipeda and do some research there.

Answer 7

YES! Besides, that was over 150 years ago. You need to come back to the future!

Answer 8

We bought, just like the Louisiana purchase and Alaska. We bought it, I don't care who lived there. We paid the fair market value. We didn't have to give them a cent. We won the war. Its ours, we developed it, and we aim to keep it.

Answer 9

May I suggest that Mexico sold "their" people out then, too? Some things never change......

Answer 10

yes it was fair not nice but legal