White Leaders Predict the Disappearance of Mexicans and Native Americans in California
With the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, the United States gained over half a million square miles of new lands in the Southwest. However, American settlers who traveled west to settle the land were not moving into unoccupied territory. [...]
Tags: Manifest Destiny, Native Americans
Item Type: Newspaper/Magazine
Historical Era: Antebellum America (1816-1860)