The episode traces the road to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed on February 2, 1848, which ended the Mexican-American War. It covers the expansionist politics of President James K. Polk, the 1846 Thornton Affair and the fighting that followed, and the negotiations in the town of Guadalupe Hidalgo, where diplomat Nicholas Trist defied a recall order to keep talking. It also examines the treaty's terms, including Mexico's cession of more than half its territory, the fifteen-million-dollar payment, the Rio Grande border, and promises to Mexican residents, and follows how those promises fared in the decades afterward.
More: https://thetreatyarchive.com/treaty/treaty-of-guadalupe-hidalgo
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