27.3k views
5 votes
Mexican American war

2 Answers

1 vote

the war was to gain land and the president was James Polk, us offered $30 million to buy New Mexico and California but Mexico refused. That led to war and us gained California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming (increase us by 25% second largest lang gaining in us history the biggest was the Louisiana Purchase) and us paid Mexico $15 million.

User Moshikafya
by
5.1k points
1 vote

The Mexican–American War, also known in the United States as the Mexican War and in Mexico as the Intervención Estadounidense en México (U.S. intervention in Mexico), was an armed conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848.

User Alexandre Halm
by
4.9k points