Why The United States Won The Mexican-American War?

The power of the United States to intervene between the conflict of Texas and Mexico is another act of being a hegemon and to show its power and dominance over others. Mexico, an autonomous state composed of lands from West Coast after its independence from Spain in 1821, worked to gain a stable government and sees the United States as a threat because United States seeks to expand its land to the South. The result is an unstable and poor economic, social and political condition Mexico is in. Texas, an agricultural nation, went under an economic crisis. Due to this, they requested to annex with United States. The United States saw this as an opportunity to strengthen its agricultural power. This angered Mexico. Both the United States and Mexico
Mexico, due to the lack of centralized leader, lost the war. War ended in 1848 with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo which the United States paid Mexico with $15 million to build a border between the Texas and Mexico and to gain the east land of Mexico. Mexicans were promised of US citizenship and they would be allowed to keep their own land. But the treaty was not fully implemented. Due to a huge loss of land, the possibility of underdevelopment would likely to happen in the future and with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexican citizen felt as if they were treated poorly. With a massive land loss after the war and unfair deal between the two, it’s a massive discrimination that the United States made but since Mexico lost the war, most power will be on the United States side than theirs. In the 1980s through 90s, there was a spike of immigration in the country, the United States signs an anti-immigration legislation and Bracero Program to avoid the exploitative use of workers for the booming success of the United States industry. Millions of undocumented people were deported back to