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    The Mexican Cession (Spanish: Cesión mexicana) is the region in the modern-day Western United States that Mexico previously controlled, then ceded to the...
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    The Mexican–American War, also known in the United States as the Mexican War, and in Mexico as the United States intervention in Mexico, was an invasion...
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    Texas (1845) and the acquisition of the vast new Mexican Cession territories (1848), after the Mexican–American War, created further north–south conflict...
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    The Mexican Repatriation was the repatriation, deportation, and expulsion of Mexicans and Mexican Americans from the United States during the Great Depression...
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    Mexican–American War, a provisional government was established, and Mexico recognized its loss to the United States in 1848 with the Mexican Cession in...
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    Amazon The theft of Native Americans' land, in one animated map Indian land cession by years Pope Francis apologises for Catholic crimes against indigenous...
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    Compromise of 1850 (category 1850 in New Mexico Territory)
    as a free state, while the remaining portions of the Mexican Cession were organized into New Mexico Territory and Utah Territory. Under the concept of popular...
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    The Second Federal Republic of Mexico (Spanish: Segunda República Federal de México) refers to the period of Mexican history involving a second attempt...
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    United States military and several Mexican factions in the Mexican–American border region of North America during the Mexican Revolution. It was the last major...
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    centuries and then of Mexico from 1821 until they were annexed by the United States during the Texas Annexation (1845) and the Mexican Cession (1848) because...
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    into the Mexican–American War, and after winning the war he annexed the Republic of Texas, the Oregon Territory, and the Mexican Cession. After building...
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    place in the aftermath of the Mexican–American War and debates over the extension of slavery into the Mexican Cession. After the Whig Party and the Democratic...
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    the First Mexican Empire (Mexico) in 1821. The westward expanding United States a quarter-century later annexed the area of the Mexican Cession in 1849...
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    Cocopah (category Indigenous peoples in Mexico)
    Oñate in 1605. After the Mexican-American War, Cocopah lands were split between the U.S. and Mexico through the Mexican Cession resulting from the Treaty...
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    heritage. In 2022, Mexican Americans comprised 11.2% of the US population and 58.9% of all Hispanic and Latino Americans. In 2019, 71% of Mexican Americans were...
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    The state cessions are the areas of the United States that the separate states ceded to the federal government in the late 18th and early 19th centuries...
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    effort. The Democrats had a record of prosperity and had acquired the Mexican cession and parts of Oregon country. It appeared almost certain that they would...
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    northeast Texas, before independence and the Mexican Cession The territorial extent of the Santa Fe de Nuevo México Territory The exact date that the division...
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    Zachary Taylor (category American military personnel of the Mexican–American War)
    threatened to divide the Union. Debate over the status of slavery in the Mexican Cession dominated the national political agenda and led to threats of secession...
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    Nuevo México became a territory of Mexico after Mexican independence from Spain in 1821. It was ceded to the United States in 1848 following the Mexican–American...
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    location as part of the Louisiana Purchase, the Oregon Country, and the Mexican Cession, the land which became Wyoming has a complicated history of territorial...
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    controversy was eventually ended by the Mexican Cession, which added the territories of Alta California and Nuevo México to the United States, both more sparsely...
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    U.S. 1,651 Mexican 5,323 Battle of Molino del Rey Battles of the Mexican–American War Marines' hymn Mexican–American War Mexican Cession Saint Patrick's...
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  • controversy was eventually ended by the Mexican Cession, which added the territories of Alta California and Nuevo México to the United States, both more sparsely...
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    Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (category Treaties of the Mexican–American War)
    claimed by the Republic of Texas is known as the Mexican Cession. That is to say, the Mexican Cession is construed not to include any territory east of...
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    Louisiana Purchase, part via the Oregon Treaty, and, lastly, via the Mexican Cession. With the opening of the Oregon Trail, the Mormon Trail, and the California...
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    Guadalupe Hidalgo, in which Mexico ceded hundreds of thousands of square miles of territory known as the Mexican Cession. By 1847, General Zachary Taylor...
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    John Chisum (category People from New Mexico Territory)
    of Nevada, Utah, and Arizona after the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848 in the peace treaty's Mexican Cession which later became the Southwestern United...
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    through the earlier Louisiana Purchase of 1803, and the more recent Mexican Cession of 1849. Douglas, as the Democratic candidate, held that the decision...
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    debates, as the 31st Congress decided whether to allow slavery in the Mexican Cession. Unlike Taylor, Fillmore supported Henry Clay's omnibus bill, the basis...
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