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Signed on May14, 1836. The border between Mexico and Texas was the Rio Grande river
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The capture of Mexico city was on September 14, 1847. Mexico attacked the US military causing Mexico to fire first or be the one who made the war happen
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Signed on February 2, 1848.
1.MX recognizes TX as part of the US
2. Rio Grande is the border between the US and MX.
3.USA pays 3 mil to TX for all the damages MX caused
4. MX ceded NW lands; MX cession -
Purpose was for deciding whether the new states were slave free or not. US gave 10 million dollars for TX to cede all lands outside present day boundary. New states from MX cession was given popular sovereignty. North got angry because US was expanding west more which could result more slave states.