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Photographic portrait

American settlers travelling west during the westward expansion era of the nineteenth century.

The Mexican Cession was the result of the Mexican-American War from 1846-1848. President James K. Polk had promised to fulfill the "Manifest Destiny" before he left office, even if it meant going to war. With the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. In…

Family portrait of the ideal white, American family

Newspaper article from the United States Magazine and Democratic Review

Article is  pro-annexation of Cuba to United States

The preswedentila election in Northern Mexico of General Arista

A New Class of Slave States Enslaving American Citizens in Mexico

Slavery and peonage in Mexico

The existence of peon slavery at the southwestern border of Mexico and Uniterd States