The Mexican War and U.S. Expansion to the Pacific
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Description: Politics in Mexico, republic of Texas and annexation, war, protests, California and the rest of northern Mexico. The invasion at Veracruz and fall of Mexico City, and the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
War between the U.S. and Mexico WAR between the U.S. and MEXICO (1 of 9) War between the U.S. and Mexico Texas, the Alamo and Independence Mexico's migration policy for Texas was similar to that for California and New Mexico. A U.S. citizen from Arkansas, Moses Austin, had acquired land in Texas in 1820, and, in 1823, Mexico confirmed this land grant and allowed Austin's son, Stephen F. Austin, to sell plots of land to settlers so long as they were of good character. Stephen Austin began advertising for settlers in frontier newspapers. And he had no trouble finding takers. The land could be bought for 12.5 cents an acre – one tenth the cost of unwanted land in the United States. Austin's land was good for farming crops such as cotton, sugar, corn, potatoes and fruit trees. Word spread, and from Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky and Tennessee, Illinois and Ohio people came to Texas to buy land that Mexico was offering. Mexico responded by applying new restrictions. Foreigners could hold title to no more than 49,000 acres (which amounts to land 8.7 by 8.7 miles). A head of a family could acquire 4,428 acres of land (2.6 by 2.6 miles) for a fee of 30 dollars, paid in installments of from four to six years.
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| Page title: | War between the U.S. and Mexico |
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| Description: | Texas, the Alamo and independence to 1837; War with Mexico (1846-48); The U.S. to California and New Mexicol the Gadsden Purchase. |
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