shamegame
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You are correct about California.Mexico would not sell it at any price, and the US needed it to secure western coastal harbor access.Part of understanding how things were at that time you have to remember that when the war was going on, Mexico had only been a sovereign nation for about 24 years.It's government wasn't very stable and there weren't near enough Mexican citizens to develop and claim that land they had just recently won from Spain.The states we received after Mexico surrendered, we payed 15,000.000 dollars for and there weren't hardly any Mexicans living in those areas nor were there any roads or means to get there for Mexicans.And when we did get these lands, we granted every Mexican who happened to be living in theses areas American citizenship and let them live in peace.wanted it back? it was still Mexico, how "want it back"?
you marched into Mexico city because we refused to sell you the rest of our territory, then you stole it by force
My point is, We didn't steal anything.We won a war.To the victors go the spoils.Some American commanders actually wanted to take over Mexico and everything else all the way down to Brazil thinking it would be taken by SOMEBODY.I would say Mexico got off lightly.