The Mexican government refused to be pressured into signing a peace treaty at this point, making the U.S. forces also moved against the province ofĪlta California and then moved south. Santa Fe Trail between Missouri and New Mexico. Rio Grande, which had trade relations with the U.S. forces quickly occupied the regional capital of Mexican forcesīeyond the disputed area of Texas, U.S. troops' presence was designed to lure Mexico into starting the conflict, putting the onus on Mexico and allowing Polk to argue to Congress that a declaration of war should be issued. Army troops to the area he also sent a diplomatic mission to Mexico to try to negotiate the sale of territory. claimed the disputed area and sent troops. Rio Grande River and Mexico claiming it to be the more-northern However, the boundary between Texas and Mexico was disputed, with the Republic of Texas and the U.S. Polk advocated expansion by either peaceful means or by armed force, with theġ845 annexation of Texas furthering that goal by peaceful means. Polk was elected on a platform of expanding U.S. In theġ844 United States presidential election, Democrat
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were preventing annexation since Texas would have been a slave state, upsetting the balance of power between Northern free states and Southern slave states.
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Mexico as the Intervención estadounidense en México ( U.S. The Mexican–American War, also known in the Including civilians killed by violence, military deaths from disease and accidental deaths, the Mexican death toll may have reached 25,000 and the American death toll exceeded 13,283. Texas, New Mexico, California Northern, Central, and Eastern Mexico Mexico City