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Running head : Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

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Date : Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Texas was a component of USA as per the Louisiana Purchase , however in 1819 , Spain was granted the State during Florida negotiations . Mexico together with Texas , gained independence by 1820 and the USA twice attempted in vain to have Mexico sell Texas to it . Texas was annexed by the USA after American immigrants settled in Texas prompting the outbreak of the May 1846 Mexican War

At annexation time , Mexico , after persuasion by Britain

, had conceded to recognize Texas as an independent state provided that Texas would not join the USA . The USA therefore argued that it was not invading Mexican territory by annexing Texas since Texas had been independent nine years prior to the annexation . US president John Tyler assented to a legislation seeking to annex Texas on March 1st 1845 . Annexation of Texas was effected on December 29th 1845 and Texas was declared the 28th state of the USA . he February 2 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo peace treaty ended the war and facilitated USA to acquire Texas , Upper California and New Mexico . The treaty was mostly USA-centered and was forced on the interim military authorities of Mexico . Guadalupe Hidalgo is a metropolis north of Mexico City from where Mexican forces had taken off from the advancing US military . The signatories to the treaty were Nichols

. Trist representing the USA and Luis G . Cuevas , Miguel Atristain and Bernardo Couto for the fallen Mexican...