mexican cession

NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM The Amendment Passes =================================== ACT ONE: The Great Divide Destiny Made Manifest From “Westward Expansion: An American Story” by Harold Freeman Published 1998 “The presidency of James K. Polk was defined by one question: should the United States...

Is it possible, in the aftermath of the U.S./Mexico war, to have the eldest son of the deposed post-independence Mexican monarch take power? He was a field commander in the war with the U.S. in OTL. What might the consequences of this be?

The challenge here is to help Mexico maintain her control over SoCal (but not NorCal) after the Mexican-American War. What are the ramifications of a Mexican Los Angeles and San Diego, and a Mexican Tucson/Nogales if Mexican SoCal butterflies away the Gadsen Purchase? Where will the film...

Say that Britain in the 1840s has strategic or economic interests in California and sees it as best for them to prevent a wider, violent conflict between the U.S. and Mexico over the region. Could they possibly act as a mediator over the situation and prevent the Mexican-American War? Could...

I had an odd thought this morning in the shower. I was thinking over the Mexican-American War and how the US gained so much territory from it, and I suddenly wondered “would we have gotten most of it anyway?” What I mean is, the California Gold Rush of 1848 almost certainly would have...

Technologically and logistically, how early could the California Gold Rush have happened? Could a California Gold Rush during Mexican possession of California reinforce Mexico's hold on the territory?

The Mexican Cession in 1848 gained the United States 830,000 sq miles of territory. Some American politicians wanted to annex more or all of Mexico. John C. Calhoun for example wanted more territory for farmland, but not the large population centers of the country. If the United States pushed...