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Stolen from Mexico were the fertile coastal plains of Texas and California and the bountiful high plains of the Edwards and Colorado plateaus and the Llano Estacado, vast areas that have produced enormous wealth in minerals, oil, beef, cotton, corn, sugar, and other agricultural commodities.
Gone were the fecund Central Valley in California, Gila River Valley in Arizona the Mesilla Valley in New Mexico, and Rio Grande Valley in Texas, cornucopias that would have fed so much of the Mexican population.
Stolen from the Mexican people were the treasures of the Sierra Nevada, the lower Rocky Mountains, and the upper portions of Sonora and Chihuahua that have produced copious amounts gold, silver, copper, and other minerals.
Expropriated were the important rivers and abundant forests of the Southwest.
Annexed by the U.S. were the key seaports San Francisco, San Pedro, San Diego, Port Isabel, Corpus Christi, and Galveston, all destined to become thriving centers of commerce and industry that rightfully belong to Mexico.
Denied to Mexico were the important trade centers of Sonoma, Santa Clara, San Juan Bautista, Monterey, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, San Fernando, Los Angeles, La Mesa, San Gabriel, Santa Fe, Albuquerque, El Paso, San Antonio, and Laredo. The Spanish names prove the fact of theft.
And, for some Americans, half of Mexico was not enough.
A powerful faction of U.S. politicians and other elites called for the annexation and enslavement of all Mexico.
However, internal contradictions in the United States stymied the movement for the annexation of all Mexico.
The issue of slavery continued to dog the U.S. Though many slaveholders advocated expansion, others feared that if all Mexico were annexed, it might be as free soil.
Free soil advocates, on the other hand, were afraid that the conquered nation would become slave territory and vehemently opposed annexation.
Western land speculators and northern capitalists were anxious to acquire all of Mexico and sell it for a profit as they had the American Mid-west and South and sided with the annexationists.
The result was a bitter political struggle in the U.S. Senate. In the end, the extension of slavery, which initially drove U.S. expansion in the South and Southwest, was the issue that tipped the balance against the forcible annexation of all Mexico.
Americans like to dress up their land-grab and call it "Manifest Destiny", but history shows it for what it really was: naked aggression that robbed the Mexican people of their birthright in North America and crippled the future of their young republic.
Gone were the fecund Central Valley in California, Gila River Valley in Arizona the Mesilla Valley in New Mexico, and Rio Grande Valley in Texas, cornucopias that would have fed so much of the Mexican population.
Stolen from the Mexican people were the treasures of the Sierra Nevada, the lower Rocky Mountains, and the upper portions of Sonora and Chihuahua that have produced copious amounts gold, silver, copper, and other minerals.
Expropriated were the important rivers and abundant forests of the Southwest.
Annexed by the U.S. were the key seaports San Francisco, San Pedro, San Diego, Port Isabel, Corpus Christi, and Galveston, all destined to become thriving centers of commerce and industry that rightfully belong to Mexico.
Denied to Mexico were the important trade centers of Sonoma, Santa Clara, San Juan Bautista, Monterey, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, San Fernando, Los Angeles, La Mesa, San Gabriel, Santa Fe, Albuquerque, El Paso, San Antonio, and Laredo. The Spanish names prove the fact of theft.
And, for some Americans, half of Mexico was not enough.
A powerful faction of U.S. politicians and other elites called for the annexation and enslavement of all Mexico.
However, internal contradictions in the United States stymied the movement for the annexation of all Mexico.
The issue of slavery continued to dog the U.S. Though many slaveholders advocated expansion, others feared that if all Mexico were annexed, it might be as free soil.
Free soil advocates, on the other hand, were afraid that the conquered nation would become slave territory and vehemently opposed annexation.
Western land speculators and northern capitalists were anxious to acquire all of Mexico and sell it for a profit as they had the American Mid-west and South and sided with the annexationists.
The result was a bitter political struggle in the U.S. Senate. In the end, the extension of slavery, which initially drove U.S. expansion in the South and Southwest, was the issue that tipped the balance against the forcible annexation of all Mexico.
Americans like to dress up their land-grab and call it "Manifest Destiny", but history shows it for what it really was: naked aggression that robbed the Mexican people of their birthright in North America and crippled the future of their young republic.
