Pages from the original Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo are headed to a museum in Denver on the 175th anniversary of its signing.
Signed in 1848, the treaty ended the Mexican-American War and added nearly 1.2 million square miles to the United States.
It forced Mexico to relinquish all claims to the territory of Texas above the Rio Grande and cede New Mexico, present-day Colorado, and California to the United States in exchange for $15 million. People of Mexican descent living in the territories were granted American citizenship, and previous land grant rights were promised to be honored.Mexican Americans experienced discrimination and racial violence almost immediately after as white settlers ignored land rights and court systems dismissed civil rights complaints.which fought back against discrimination and land encroachment byThe treaty is also connected to the displacement of Indigenous tribes.
Map of the United States of Mexico, 1847, published by J Disturnall. This was appended to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Photo: Universal History Archive/Getty ImagesThe failed promises made in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo became a rallying cry for Chicano Movement leaderHe led a violent 1967 courthouse raid in northern New Mexico and used the treaty as reason for seeking redress century-old Spanish land grant disputes.
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