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Consisting of roughly 529,000 square miles (1,370,000 km 2), not including any Texas lands, the Mexican Cession was the third-largest acquisition of territory in US history, surpassed only by the 827,000-square-mile (2,140,000 km 2) Louisiana Purchase of 1803 and the later 586,000-square-mile (1,520,000 km 2) Alaska Purchase from Russia in 1867.
Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón (21 February 1794 – 21 June 1876), [1] often known as Santa Anna, [2] was a Mexican general, politician, and caudillo [3] who served as the 8th president of Mexico on multiple occasions between 1833 and 1855.
Finally, Texas claimed parts of eastern New Mexico and threatened to send its state militia to militarily enforce its territorial claims. [117] [118] While a Southern slaveowner himself, Taylor believed that slavery was economically infeasible in the Mexican Cession, and so opposed slavery in those territories as a needless source of ...
Mexican–American War; Clockwise from top: Winfield Scott entering Plaza de la Constitución after the Fall of Mexico City, U.S. soldiers engaging the retreating Mexican force during the Battle of Resaca de la Palma, U.S. victory at Churubusco outside of Mexico City, Marines storming Chapultepec castle under a large U.S. flag, Battle of Cerro Gordo
In the United States, the 1.36 million km 2 (530,000 sq mi) of the area between the Adams-Onís and Guadalupe Hidalgo boundaries outside the 1,007,935 km 2 (389,166 sq mi) claimed by the Republic of Texas is known as the Mexican Cession. That is to say, the Mexican Cession is construed not to include any territory east of the Rio Grande, while ...
The Oxnard strike of 1903 is one of the first recorded instances of an organized strike by Mexican Americans in United States history. [152] The Mexican and Japanese American strikers raised the ire of the surrounding white American community. While picketing, one laborer, Luis Vasquez, was shot and killed, and four others were wounded. [153]
Apolinaria Lorenzana (1793–1884) was a Californio woman of the 19th century who was brought to the western part of the Mexican Cession in the area of present-day California. She lived at missions in San Diego, Santa Barbara, and San Juan Capistrano, where she was a teacher, matron, religious leader, and nurse. During the 1840s, many residents ...
Botiller v. Dominguez, 130 U.S. 238 (1889), was a decision by the United States Supreme Court dealing with the validity of Spanish or Mexican land grants in the Mexican Cession, the region of the present day southwestern United States that was ceded to the U.S. by Mexico in 1848 under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.