During this event Mr. James K. Polk was President and he was the pursuit of expanding westward even more. Which meant he needed to obtain more land and he set his sights of California, New Mexico, and the land near the southern boarder of Texas. So in order to do so he sent an American diplomat, John Slidell to Mexico city with plans to offer thirty million dollars for the land. But the Mexican government who knew of the US's plans refused to even meet with Slidell. In January of 1846 President Polk responded to this by sending American troops to Texas to try and provoke or taut the Mexicans into war. Later that year, on April 25th, that strategy worked when Mexicans fired on American troops. Polk then responded by declaring "(Mexico) has invaded our territory and shed American blood upon American soil". He then proceeded to sent order for war to Congress on the eleventh of May. The Mexican troops outnumbered the American in the most instances. But on September of 1847 the American troops captured Mexico city, which is the capital of Mexico. Then in 1848 the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed. This treaty gave fifteen million dollars and the assumption of American depts to the Mexicans. While the American side received what is now day California, Nevada, Utah, parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Wyoming, Texas, and the area around the along the border.
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Mexican American War
In the struggle to obtain land some disputes may accure like the Mexican American War.