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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…

Portrait of Amy S. Greenberg, Historian and Penn State Professor

Historian Amy S. Greenberg, behind her desk

Merk in the process of giving a lecture to a class

Wagon train with settler traveling west  in America

Engraving, Portrait of John L. O'Sullivan

Photographic portrait

This painting is an allegorical representation of the modernization of the new west. Here Columbia, a personification of the United States, leads civilization westward with American settlers, stringing telegraph wire as she sweeps west; she holds a…

Up to date news on the progress of the war, from Vera Cruz

A New Class of Slave States Enslaving American Citizens in Mexico