• YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Technically the United States bought Texas and the rest of the Western States, after a war with Mexico.

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        11 months ago

        The technicality they’re using is that the land was purchased after the war as opposed to taken as a result of the war.

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          11 months ago

          Yes, but that land would not have been “sold” if they hadn’t lost the war. The war was fought to conquer land, and the payment was for war “reparations”.

          The U.S. agreed to pay $15 million for the physical damage of the war and assumed $3.25 million of debt already owed by the Mexican government to U.S. citizens

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