Why wasn't all of Mexico taken at the end of the Mexican war? ?

Question

Why wasn't all of Mexico taken at the end of the Mexican war? ?

Answer 1

As with all major events, historical interpretations concerning the causes of the Mexican War vary. Simply stated, a dictatorial Centralist government in Mexico began the war because of the U.S. annexation (1845) of Texas, which Mexico continued to claim despite the establishment of the independent republic of Texas 10 years before. Some historians have argued, however, that the United States provoked the war by annexing Texas and, more deliberately, by stationing an army at the mouth of the Rio Grande. Another, related, interpretation maintains that the administration of U.S. President James K. Polk forced Mexico to war in order to seize California and the Southwest. A minority believes the war arose simply out of Mexico's failure to pay claims for losses sustained by U.S. citizens during the Mexican War of Independence.

Fact is: The Mexican War between the United States and Mexico began with a Mexican attack on American troops along the southern border of Texas on Apr. 25, 1846. Fighting ended when U.S. Gen. Winfield Scott occupied Mexico City on Sept. 14, 1847; a few months later a peace treaty was signed (Feb. 2, 1848) at Guadalupe Hidalgo. In addition to recognizing the U.S. annexation of Texas defeated Mexico ceded California and , New Mexico (including all the present-day states of the Southwest) to the United States.

Answer 2

because there as also alot of conflict going on internally in Mexico as well and the US didnt want to have to go in there and clean it up.

the US only took what they could take easily without making a bigger war or creating more problems for themselves. the lands the US took were lightly populated (besides texas) compared to the rest of mexico..perfect for new anglo communities.

Besides the Mexican government wasn't handling well the enormous country at that time and the US knew it. So the US took advantage of an overwhelmed government so they could continue their "Manifest Destiny"

Answer 3

Navy wife you are so wrong!!!

Answer 4

Prof.Gringo is right.

Anyway that area and northern Mexico is expected to be it's own nation in the future.

Answer 5

In response to Chaoi:

Wasn't Manifest Destiny completed after the U.S. traded back Mexico City for more of Mexico's land?

Answer 6

THE FACT IS: The US of and A created and manufactured an unjust, illegal and criminal war to take the land that rightfully belonged to Mexico. The US did offer to buy the land and the price offered by the US to Mexico was a joke. Mexico had every right to refuse and it did. The US then sent troops to the Mexican border and crossed into Mexican national territory. While there illegally a detachment of dragoons (light horse calvary) were attacked by units of the Mexican military and driven back to the US side of the Rio Nueces. After having sustained several men killed and others wounded, the soldiers were ordered to lie and to say they were attacked on the US side.

Another lie was told to justify an illegal and criminal war. Sound familiar? It should. The Spanish-American War was done in much the same way, and the US seized Cuba and the Philippines. Hawaii's legal monarch, the Queen was overthrown by Sanford Dole, founder of the pineapple company and annexed by the US. The US supported a corrupt and unpopular government in South Vietnam. The invasion of Panama. The Iraq war.

Read the real history.

Viva Mexico SIEMPRE!