mexican war

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Definition

1. Proper noun:
   • The Mexican-American War: A military conflict fought between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848. The war followed the U.S. annexation of Texas, which Mexico still considered its territory. The war concluded with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, in which Mexico ceded a vast portion of its northern territories to the United States.

Usage Examples

• Proper noun:
  • The Mexican War significantly expanded the territorial size of the United States.
  • Many historians study the causes and consequences of the Mexican War.

Advanced Usage

• Historical Reference: The term is used to refer to the specific conflict and its era.
  • Diplomatic relations were strained for decades following the Mexican War.

Variants and Related Words

• Mexican-American War (n): The full, more precise name for the same conflict.
  • The Mexican-American War is also known as the U.S.-Mexican War.

Synonyms

• U.S.-Mexican War: An alternative name for the same historical conflict.
• War with Mexico: A descriptive phrase referring to the event.

Related Phrases

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: The peace treaty that formally ended the Mexican War.
  • The Mexican War was concluded by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
• Manifest Destiny: The 19th-century doctrine often associated with the motivations for U.S. expansion during this period.
  • The ideology of Manifest Destiny was a factor leading to the Mexican War.

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Noun

1. after disputes over Texas lands that were settled by Mexicans the United States declared war on Mexico in 1846 and by treaty in 1848 took Texas and California and Arizona and New Mexico and Nevada and Utah and part of Colorado and paid Mexico $15,000,000

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