[17th Miss Regt]

Note that we bought the land containing California et al for the sum of $15,000,000 and agreed to pay off most of Mexico's debt. This is very clear in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

The American southwest was purchased from Mexico, not stolen.

[amihow]

The treaty of G. Hidalgo ended the war Mexico started. America paid 50 mllion in gold and promised to keep Mexico safe from Apache raids also. That resulted in all of the staes of far west and southwest becoming Amerian.