Ask yourself this: what do you think would happen if to pay the extremely large debt owed by the United States to China, the Chinese government asked Washington for the whole states of California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, as well as parts of Wyoming, Colorado, Oklahoma and Kansas? Even if by Chinese standards those states are "almost uninhabited"?
That is the reason Mexico refused to negotiate "forgotten debt in exchange of land".
Because Mexico refused to negotiate a peaceful sale of New Mexico and California.
Yes, but Mexico refused to negotiate.
Nicholas Trist, and General Zachary Taylor.
No the US does not negotiate with terrorists.
We've had different conflicts. which one in particular?
The cause of the war was the failure of Mexico to negotiate the sale of California and New Mexico and various border conflictsw with Texas. Mexico and the US were the participants. The US won the war and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended it.
False, it was an effort to negotiate the purchase of Alta California and Nuevo Mexico and to establish the status of Texas as a US State that had a border with Mexico on the Rio Grande.
They refused to negotiate the sale of Mexican States and stood in the way of achieving Manifest Destiny. They also had the audacity to capture and kill US Dragoons who were trespassing on what Mexico claimed was their soil (Thornton Affair).
The area between the Rio Grande and the Neuces Rivers. The US wanted to purchase Alta California and Nuevo Mexico, but Mexico would not negotiate.
Spain and England were willing to renegotiate with Mexico. France was actually interested in conquering Mexico.
Mexico was seeking independence from Spain.
It could, but it must first negotiate the terms of such "integration" with New Mexico.