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The Mexican Cession
The Polk Administration
The “Mexican Cession” refers to lands surrendered, or ceded, to the United States by Mexico at the end of the Mexican War. The terms of this transfer were spelled out in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo of 1848. To the United States, this massive land grab was significant because the question of extending slavery into newly acquired territories had become the leading national political issue. To Mexico, the loss of an enormous part of its territory was a tremendous embarrassment and created lasting anger among many of its citizens.
Off-site search results for "The Mexican Cession"... Map: Chickasaw Map + Land Cession Treaties with the U.S. 1805 - 1818
... United States has for the said Chickesaw nation, at the request of the chiefs of the said nation, the commissioners agree that the sum of one thousand and eighty-nine dollars shall be paid to Maj. James Colbert, interpreter, within the period ...
http://www.floridahistory.com/chickasaw-land.html
The Mexican War
... its boundary, the adjacent Mexican state of Tamaulipas claimed the area north of the Rio Grande to the Nueces River. By the time Slidell arrived in Mexico in December 1845, the Herrera government was under intense fire from the Centralists ...
http://www.lnstar.com/mall/texasinfo/mexicow.htm
The Mexican War
As the first step in determining whether an ancestor served in the Mexican War, 1846-1848, family historians should check the alphabetical listing contained in the Pennsylvania Archives, Sixth Series, Volume 10. Original materials include these ...
http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/military/mexicanwar.htm
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