Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed by the United
States and Mexico on February 2, 1848, ending the Mexican
War and extending the boundaries of the United States by
over 525,000 square miles. In addition to establishing
the Rio Grande as the border between the two countries,
the territory acquired by the U.S. included what will become
the states of Texas, California, Nevada, Utah, most of
New Mexico and Arizona, and parts of Colorado and Wyoming.
In exchange Mexico received fifteen million dollars in
compensation for the territory and the U.S. agreed to assume
claims from private citizens of these areas against the
Mexican government.
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Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional
Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
This collection contains congressional publications from 1774 to 1875, including debates, bills, laws, and journals.
- May 11, 1846 - President
James Polk submitted a message to Congress
outlining his reasons for declaring war with Mexico.
- May 11, 1846 - Messages of the President of the United States, with the correspondence, therewith communicated, between the Secretary of War and other officers of the government, on the subject of the Mexican War (H.exdoc.60)
- May 11, 1846 - The House of Representatives approved a resolution declaring war with Mexico by a vote of 174 to 14.
- May 12, 1846 - The Senate approved a resolution declaring war with Mexico by a vote of 40 to 2.
- May 13, 1846 - President Polk signed "An act providing for the prosecution of the existing war between the United States and the Republic of Mexico".
- February 2, 1848 - The
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed by the United
States and Mexico.
- March 10, 1848 - The Senate
ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo by a vote
of 38 to 14.
Additional information
on the Guadalupe Hidalgo Treaty and the Mexican War
can be found by searching in
the 29th and 30th Congresses.
Abraham
Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress
The complete Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress consists of approximately 20,000 documents.
Search
Lincoln's Papers using the phrase "Mexican
War" to find additional documents on this subject.
Map
Collections
Includes a map
of the Mexican War campaign in Mexico by Alvino
Herrera. To view additional maps of the Mexican War, search this
collection using the phrase "Mexican War."
Music
for the Nation, American Sheet Music, ca. 1820-1860
Search
this collection using the phrase "Mexican
War" to view the sheet music for over fifty songs
written about the war.
Printed Ephemera: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera
The Printed Ephemera collection comprises 28,000 primary-source items dating from the seventeenth century to the present and encompasses key events and eras in American history.
Jump
Back in Time: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Was Signed
In Mexico City.
The Guadalupe
Hidalgo Treaty
In honor of the 150th anniversary of the treaty signing,
the Library of Congress created an online presentation
on the Guadalupe Hidalgo Treaty. It includes page images
of the original treaty housed in the Library of Congress
Manuscript Division and the area map used during the
negotiations from the Geography and Map Division.
May
8, 1846
General Zachary Taylor defeated a detachment of the
Mexican army in a two-day battle at Palo Alto and Resaca
de la Palma on May 8, 1846.
February
2, 1848
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed in Mexico
City on February 2, 1848.
February
23, 1847
The Battle of Buena Vista was won by the United States
on February 23, 1847. General Zachary Taylor, future
president of the United States, was the commander of
American troops in this victory over Mexican General
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna.
Mexican-American
Diplomacy: 1848-1861, The Avalon Project at Yale
Law School
Online Bookshelves: Mexican War,
Center of Military History, U.S. Army
Our
Documents, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, National Archives
and Records Administration
Teaching
with Documents: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, National
Archives and Records Administration
The U.S.
Mexican War (1846-1848), PBS
Mahin, Dean B. Olive Branch and Sword:
The United States and Mexico, 1845-1848. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co.,
1997. [Catalog
Record]
Ohrt, Wallace. Defiant Peacemaker:
Nicholas Trist in the Mexican War. College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University
Press, 1997. [Catalog
Record]
Drexler, Robert W. Guilty of Making
Peace: A Biography of Nicholas P. Trist. Lanham: University Press of America,
1991. [Catalog
Record]
Griswold del Castillo, Richard. The
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: A Legacy of Conflict. Norman: University of Oklahoma
Press, 1990. [Catalog
Record]
Frazier, Donald S., ed. The United
States and Mexico at War: Nineteenth-Century Expansionism
and Conflict. New
York: Macmillan Reference USA, 1998. [Catalog
Record]
Johannsen, Robert Walter. To the
Halls of the Montezumas: The Mexican War in the American
Imagination. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1985. [Catalog
Record]
Carey, Charles W., Jr. The Mexican
War: "Mr. Polk's
War". Berkeley Heights, N.J.: Enslow Publishers, 2002.
[Catalog
Record]
Mills, Bronwyn. U.S.-Mexican War. New York: Facts On File,
2003. [Catalog
Record]
Nardo, Don. The Mexican-American
War. San Diego, Calif.:
Lucent Books, 1999. [Catalog
Record]
Porterfield, Jason. The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, 1848: A Primary Source Examination of the Treaty That Ended the Mexican-American War. New York: Rosen Central Primary Source, 2006. [Catalog
Record]
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