The Mexican-American War was fought from 1846 to 1848 between the United States and Mexico, triggered by the United States' 1845 annexation of Texas and a disputed border along the Rio Grande, and resulted in a decisive American victory that permanently redrew the map of North America. Following a clash between American and Mexican troops in the disputed zone in April 1846, American forces under Zachary Taylor advanced into northern Mexico while a second force under Stephen Kearny occupied New Mexico and California; the decisive campaign came under Winfield Scott, who landed at Veracruz in 1847 and captured Mexico City itself by September. The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the war with Mexico ceding roughly half its territory, including present-day California, Nevada, Utah, most of Arizona and New Mexico, and parts of Colorado and Wyoming, to the United States in exchange for a payment of fifteen million dollars. The war intensified American sectional conflict over whether the vast new territories would permit slavery, a tension that fed directly into the coming Civil War.
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CombatantsUnited States versus Mexico 2 OutcomeAmerican victory; Mexico ceded California, Texas and the present-day Southwest to the United States under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 2 Classification
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1. Correlates of War Project: Correlates of War Inter-State War Data, version 4.0
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2. Wikipedia: Mexican-American War
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The Mexican-American War, also known in the United States as the Mexican War and in Mexico as the United States intervention in Mexico, (April 25, 1846 - February 2, 1848) was an invasion of Mexico by the United States.
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The Mexican-American War, also known in the United States as the Mexican War and in Mexico as the United States intervention in Mexico, (April 25, 1846, February 2, 1848) was an invasion of Mexico by the United States.
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The war intensified American sectional conflict over whether the vast new territories would permit slavery, a tension that fed directly into the coming Civil War.
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The annexation of Texas as the 28th state of the United States in 1845 led directly to the Mexican-American War.
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He served with distinction in the Mexican-American War, but returned to civilian life impoverished in 1854.
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