Richard Griswold del Castillo

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Richard Griswold del Castillo

• The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo A Legacy of
  Conflict

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Beginning of Conflict

• Texas joins Union in 1845
• US Wanted to Purchase the New Mexico, CA
• Joel Poinsett

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Griswold del Castillo, The Treaty of GH

• Beginning of Conflict
• Texas joins Union in 1845
• US Wanted to Purchase the New Mexico, CA
• Joel Poinsett Cuetlaxochitl
• Texas-Mexico Border
• US says it's Rio Grande/Bravo
• Mexico says Nueces River
• Mexico Provoked
• We were sent to start a war, but it was
  imperative that Mexico start it.

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Griswold del Castillo, The Treaty of GH

• Santa Anna
• Advises Polk how to get CA
• Threaten War with Mexico
• Pay 30M dollars
• As president
• He accepts the Rio Grande Boundary
• Sale of CA
• US responds by including NM in deal
• Advises US on strategy

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Griswold del Castillo, The Treaty of GH

• US Opposition to Treaty
• Robbery
• Recognition of Rio Grande Boundary proof that US
  had attacked Mexico
• Third Article of the Louisiana Purchase
• Inhabitants ...shall be incorporated in the
  Union of the U.S. and admitted as soon as
  possible, according to the principles of the
  Federal Constitution, to the enjoyment of all
  rights, advantages, and immunities of citizens of
  the Unites States, and in the meantime, they
  shall be maintained and protected in the full
  enjoyment of their liberty, property, and
  religion which they possess.

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Griswold del Castillo, The Treaty of GH

• Ratification of the Treaty
• Opposition
• Would empower slavocracy
• Did not take enough territory
• Northerns opposed it more
• Article X (Property) was stricken as recommended
  by President
• Changes to article IX (Citizenship)?
• ASAP to at the proper time judged by Congress
• In the meantime ... meant not protected by
  Constitution
• Political Rights stricken out

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Griswold del Castillo, The Treaty of GH

• Article X
• Protected land rights as if in Mexico
• Stricken because it would not allow dispossession
• Protocol of Querétaro
• Would explain of US Senate modifications to
  Treaty
• Don't Mind the Changes to the Treaty
• Changes to Article IX (Citizenship) did not
  diminish rights
• Changes to Article X (Property) would not annul
  grants
• Ultimately US courts did not consider POQ part of
  the TOGH