Why did the U.S. steal California and the Southwes?

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The U.S. ripped off the Future Mexican Gold Rush and Future Dominance of North America by Mexico! The goldrush discovered 1 month later by a gringo after the Mexican-American War! You gringo paid the Mexican's 15 Million Thalers, but made Billions on the Gold rush! 1}On January 24, 1848 James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill, touching off the California gold rush. http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0oGkmyL14FGRMcAxCZXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTE5czlnOGlmBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMQRjb2xvA3cEdnRpZANNQVAwMTNfMTIyBGwDV1Mx/SIG=11k9lpdeg/EXP=1183000843/**http%3a//www.museumca.org/goldrush

Although ordered by Polk to return to Washington, Trist remained in Mexico and carried out unauthorized talks with Mexican representatives in late 1847. These meetings formed the basis for the final peace treaty, also negotiated by Trist. Although Polk refused to acknowledge or compensate Trist, he grudgingly accepted the agreement and submitted it to the Senate for ratification. The February 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (named for a town outside Mexico City) signaled Mexico's surrender and finalized the purchase of New Mexico and California for $15 million.

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/dwe/16336.htm Too conclude you knew what you where doing when you held Santana captive and made him sign that treaty! You stole our future dominance of North America by Mexico!

Too conclude you knew what you where doing when you held Santana captive and made him sign that treaty! You stole our future dominance of North America by Mexico!

Well if you want your 15 million thalers{dollars} back pay us back our GOLD by the billions + interest!

Gringo History is just too shady sometimes!

Mexican and Spanish were one by then!

Mexico could have been the U.S. if you did not steal our gold by the Billions!

The Thaler (or Taler) was a silver coin used throughout Europe for almost four hundred years. Its name lives on in various currencies as the dollar or tolar. Etymologically, "Thaler" is an abbreviation of "Joachimsthaler", a coin type from the city of Joachimsthal in Bohemia, where some of the first such coins were minted in 1518.

Like the gringo is gonna say hey wait let's not sign the treaty we found Mexico's gold! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr

We were a Government! You saw the gold and took it!

Mexican's are Native Indian, Spanish too! Einstein

It would have been great if Spain/Mexico took advantage of the 13 colonies when they where in trouble!

100% Facts

Manifest Destiny such boggus claims!

Mexico could not hold on to the land ,because the U.S. exploited Mexico's economic problem!
That gold would have financed a New beginning for Mexico!

Bonzo isn't that a clown!

Answer 1

Cuz We are stealer's and an Imperialistic country.

Answer 2

America won and paid for the California and lands in the southwestern United States, (and we are still paying, in terms of benefits and such for all the Mexican illegals) You said so yourself. Now, lets pretend that we didn't, that those lands still belonged to Mexico. There still would not have been any "Future Domination of North America" because Mexico cannot control the land and people they do have, much less a much larger area. It is well known that Mexico is one of the most polluted, disease ridden and politically corrupt nations in the world. If Mexico had more land, that means there would be just a larger dump for the rest of the world to clean up.

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Answer 3

So mexico did not know about the gold and we bought it from them for a price they set. We cannot help if they are just ignorant of their own land. They never really had control of the southwest anyway.

The rest of the land Mexico just gave away in the treaty of guadalupe-hidalgo.

And so what if we made billions? When the mexican economy crashed and some billions of dollars went missing, president clinton gave mexico all that money for free, more than compensating for the gold rush. That and the social services we have given to the mexicans.

Answer 4

by any chance when you received your revisionist history lesson could they possibly included a few facts you were conveniently unaware of.
Charles Fremont, and less than 30 men without even trying .or should I say by virtue of being there incited the brave Mexican population to vacate.

The Maximilian land grants which are apparently one of the grounds for Mexicans to claim that this country is there's were proven to be thoroughly bogus within years of Maximilian issuing them. One of the major clues was the fact Maximilian was giving away large chunks of already established Canadian land

The entire concept of Aztlan and the fact it you believe this country to be your by birthright's created in 1969 in Denver at . Chicano activist movement meeting.

Congratulations, you are one more stupid wet back who has been conned by one of your own who was slightly smarter than your self.
one would think that after the first couple of dozen times you people would catch on that anyone who stands up and promises you something for nothing is just trying to use you to further their own agenda.
Here is some political advice, if it sounds good to get to be true IT IS

Answer 5

It's over,done with and forgotten wet**ck.You need to work on getting all the social benefits that are available here that someone else worked hard for.
You don't want to pay for medical,and you don't,or insurance because if you have a accident you change your name and move on.You are not working for mini um wages,that is all BS from the politicians.You work no harder than any other immigrant,being black,Irish ,Polish,Jew,Chex,Hungarian,Slovok,Chinese or Greek and many other nationalities not mentioned.
And did you hear about all those jobs at Tyson Chicken ,went back to Americans that didn't want to work at those low paying $15.00 an hour jobs.

Answer 6

Of course it did, nothing new about that. Why are you rehashing it? Israel more than double in size during the 6 day war, Chile took lands from Peru Bolivia and Argentina in war, the US took land from Spain, Mexico and many others in war. The US has control of Polynesia, Micronesia, Oceania as the Victor in WWII. To the victor go the spoils, it's always been like that.

I'm not defending it, just pointing out that, that is the way it is.

Answer 7

Shut up with that. If a country can't hold on to their own land, don't whine about it.

Better yet. Why are so many Mexican people trying to jump ship from the piece of land the U.S. left to them? The U.S. should have taken the whole country, then everyone would be happy Americans and there would be no border to jump!!

Answer 8

Where did Mexico get the land?

Answer 9

Why couldn't Mexico hold on to it?
And why is it that with all the oil Mexico produces, so many of its people still live in third world conditions? Seems to me that if they had the capacity to become a world power, they would have done so by now.

Answer 10

Go study some histroy and then come back. Any time one makes excuses for what happen in history, they have not studied it.

Answer 11

You are so full of crap "Gringo".
Get a life.

Also California belonged the the indians stupid long before Mexicans ever lived here.

So stop whining about something of which you know nothing about.