What does the average American knows about Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo signed by USA & Mexico ?
the border was created in 1848.
Answer:
Americans don't know to much about it but it's worth a read.
I have a coworker who kept quoting it so I read it and he is so full of crap it's not funny,
he told me that the treaty gives Mexicans the choice of becoming a US citizen or staying a Mexican citizen.
Well it does do that for the people in the territory it gave them a one year deadline on deciding which nationality they wanted to have.
I told my coworker the deadline expired over 150 years ago and he was silent after that.
If you know anybody quoting the treaty you should read it it's not very long then you can shove it in their face.
I know enough.We win.You/they lose.We pay $$.Now its ours forever.
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i know enough. why do you ask and what has it to do with immigration?
Well, wasn't it the Treaty when the USA purchased
Texas, New Mexico and Arizona from Mexico?
It is all the land taken from Mexico after the war, minus the land we didn't get til the Gadsden Purchase. So, basically, it was Texas, California, and Northern New Mexico and Arizona.
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is the peace treaty that ended the Mexican-American War (1846–1848). The treaty provided for the Mexican Cession, in which Mexico ceded 1.36 million km² (525,000 square miles) (about 40% of its pre-war territory) to the United States in exchange for US$15 million. Anything else you would like to know?
I've read a photocopy of the original, you can find it on the web. It is handwritten and in both Spanish and English side by side.
It granted no immigration rights at all but said those Mexicans in what were now US territories could choose whether to be Mexicans or Americans, and could keep the proceeds from land they sold if they decided to go to Mexico. However, they had to decide within one year, each of them. As you say, it was in the 1840's, so it has no bearing on 2007.
Thanks, PDaddy and DAR for the info. Now here's a question for the asker - what was the treaty of a couple of decades earlier by which Mexico annexed the northern third of Guatemala, and did that treaty give the people of Chiapas any choice as to citizenship?
I don't even think the average American ever heard about the TGH!
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