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4 days ago · Some Democrats were also opposed; the Democrats of Louisiana opposed annexation of Mexico, while those in Mississippi supported it. These events related to the Mexican–American War and had an effect on the American people living in the Southern Plains at the time.
4 days ago · A Congressman "Pleads the Case of White Men". In 1847, Representative David Wilmot of Pennsylvania made a speech (excerpted below) to the House of Representatives in which he proposed a legislative amendment that would ban slavery from any territory acquired as a result of the war with Mexico. The amendment came to be known as the Wilmot Proviso.
4 days ago · The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the Mexican-American War in 1848, ceded 525,000 square miles--55% of--Mexican territory to the United States. In exchange, the United States paid approximately $15 million in damages to pay for destruction of Mexican property by the U.S. military during the war.
3 days ago · He was outspoken in his opposition to the Spanish-American War, in part fearing the acquisition of territory in the Caribbean and the Pacific would lead to “the moral ruin of the Anglo-Saxon republic.” Schurz correctly predicted that the United States would never give the newly acquired territories the full voice given to American states.
5 days ago · During the period from 1910 until 1939, Mexican Americans remained largely unassimilated, rural, and poor. They were for the most part forgotten Americans amid the crises of the Depression and World War II (1939–45).
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5 days ago · Essentially, Congress, controlled by a Republican majority, used its legislative powers and control over the federal purse strings in an attempt to impose answers to the “Big Questions of Reconstruction” listed above. The recalcitrance of white Southerners opened Republicans to extending full citizenship to the formerly enslaved.
1 day ago · In this excerpt from his book A Different Mirror, historian Ronald Takaki describes the relationships between Mexicans and white Americans in the Southwest. Using quotations from the period, Takaki shows how ordinary Mexicans and Americans understood the racial rules that governed their interactions with one another.
