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Print shows a scene from the Battle of Monterrey, led by General Zachary Taylor and General William J. Worth, during the Mexican-American War.1855. Library of Congress. In 1844, President James K ...
- History in a Nutshell | The Mexican-American War - PBS
The Mexican-American War. Season 2 Episode 3 | 13m 44s |. My...
- Slavery and the Mexican-American War - PBS
Clip: Season 25 Episode 12 | 1m 10s |. My List. The...
- History in a Nutshell | The Mexican-American War - PBS
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo sealed the American victory in 1848. In return for $15 million and the assumption of Mexican debts to Americans, Mexico gave up its hold over New Mexico and ...
- American Experience
In this clip from Latino Americans, students will learn about the Mexican-American War. Until the mid 1800s, the region that is now the western United States was part of Mexico. Meanwhile, inspired by the notion of Manifest Destiny, U.S. leaders tried to buy and later went to war over this expanse of land. The result was that not only land, but people and long-standing settlments also became ...
The Mexican–American War, [a] also known in the United States as the Mexican War, and in Mexico as the United States intervention in Mexico, [b] was an invasion of Mexico by the United States Army from 1846 to 1848. It followed the 1845 American annexation of Texas, which Mexico still considered its territory because Mexico refused to ...
- April 25, 1846 – February 2, 1848, (1 year, 9 months, 1 week and 1 day)
Mar 28, 2024 · The Mexican-American War was a conflict between the United States and Mexico, fought from April 1846 to February 1848.Won by the Americans and damned by its contemporary critics as expansionist, it resulted in the U.S. gaining more than 500,000 square miles (1,300,000 square km) of Mexican territory extending westward from the Rio Grande to the Pacific Ocean.
