Mexican–Statesian War

The USA annexed the red territory with the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo at the end of the war. It bought additional land from Mexico in 1853.

The Mexican–Statesian War was a U.S. war of aggression against Mexico that lasted from 1846 to 1848.

Background

After the Mexican government banned slavery in 1829, US-backed settlers in Texas rebelled to form the Republic of Texas in 1836.^[1] By the time the United States annexed it in 1845, there were tens of thousands of settlers there.

In 1846, President James K. Polk ordered Zachary Taylor to deploy 4,000 troops to the Rio Grande and sent the Navy to California and told it to invade Yerba Buena (now San Francisco) in the event of war.^[2]

Invasion

The United States invaded Mexico in 1846, beginning in Veracruz. They occupied Mexico City in 1848 and did not leave until Mexico surrendered its northern territories to the USA. After the annexation, U.S. cavalry troops attacked the Apaches led by Mangas Coloradas, destroying crops and villages and murdering civilians.^[1]

Opposition

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (2014). An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States: 'Sea to Shining Sea' (pp. 123–132). ReVisioning American History. [PDF] Boston: Beacon Press Books.
↑ David Vine (2020). The United States of War: 'The Permanent Indian Frontier' (pp. 149–50). Oakland: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520972070 [LG]

[:822-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (2014). An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States: 'Sea to Shining Sea' (pp. 123–132). ReVisioning American History. [PDF] Boston: Beacon Press Books.

[:1232-2] David Vine (2020). The United States of War: 'The Permanent Indian Frontier' (pp. 149–50). Oakland: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520972070 [LG]

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