How the U.S. Stole Mexico
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It seems like the US is really good at playing dirty and bloody and then making inspiring films about how amazing it all was becoming so amazing.
It really be like that and in the end the lies come to truth but we still make things worst and yet call it a great success!
Welcome to AMERICA 🇺🇸 a "free proud nation"
It’s not just the US tho every country makes movies like that
Lol the formation of almost all countries which have ever existed usually had some sort of war or foul play involved. You cannot be petty about what happened hundreds of years ago to create the country you’re sitting in right now. Bad things happen in the world, not everything can be rainbows and bunny rabbits.
I mean, Russia is kinda doing this in eastern ukraine right now. They’re moving troops towards the border which is usually a sign a war will ensue. However, Russia experts believe that Russia is trying to get Ukraine to fire the first shot so that Russia would have a “just”
cause for war. This would also make it more difficult for NATO countries to then back Ukraine via military involvement, since it’d be viewed as joining the side which started the war. Even though you could argue Russia is trying to start a war without firing a shot.
Point being every major superpower or regional power has done this at one time or another. Countries are run by either borderline narcissists or narcissists who want to make an impact on their society. And they’re willing to do a lot to succeed. Even so called “just leaders” are a bunch of narcissists. If you think you can lead over a million people/people should listen to you and trust you to do the right thing, then you’re not someone I’d trust. But, sadly, humans and primates are kinda messed up, it’s just we’re a lot smarter than chimps.
@@tornadochaser7226 It's important to learn about this and take it to heart because it is STILL HAPPENING.
Irony, racism saved Mexico form being completely annexed by US.
Americans were afraid of all those brown skin Mexican men coming over and taking away their white american women.
Once you go brown, you can't go back.
@Royal Bengal Tiger you act as if Mexico is any better. Mexico was also built on the murder and exploitation of other people
Usa is shite
@Royal Bengal Tiger Mexico is racist, starting with the Spanish/Indian conflicts and caste system. And before that tribe against tribe. Even today, Mexicans boast about their whiteness, others of their Indian blood. There would have been no African slaves if African merchants had not sold their own to other nations. Slavery in Africa was a booming business centuries ago. Racism in the United States is not what it was 150 years ago. Not all were slave owner's, in fact the nation went into the Civil War over freedom for slaves, segregation helped the Black to develop themselves to independence setting their own businesses, etc in their own communities, Civil Rights, and today they have every right under the law as any other American. In the US, any racism that still exists is politically motivated and racism works the other way around. Can't be that bad as immigrants of all colors are pouring into US borders.
There were many other reasons why the US didn't annexed all of Mexico. Racism wasn't the only reason. It wasn't even one of the main reasons. The US wasn't quite ready to control such a big territory. Everybody in Congress knew this and that's why they didn't annexed all Mexico.
And I love how the “Americans” are always chanting, ‘’ get out of my country’’ 😂😂
That's why I always say that's mexico land...
The best quote I heard was “we didn’t cross the boarder , the boarder crossed us”
The quote doesn’t even make sense, considering most Mexicans came to the US after the war.
Who ever made up that quote was historically challenged. It was actually Mexico who crossed the borders on inherent lands of the Navaho, Comanche, Caddo, Kiowa, Piaut , Shasta, Chumash, Pueblo and other northern tribes in today's USA. The Comanche and Kiowa constantly fought the Sonorans and Sinaloans. Fierce warrior tribes who were feared in those villages in today's northern Mexico who's lands were left in shreds by northern tribes.... Truth is Mexico had only been a nation for 25 years before the Mexican War and Mexico claimed its lands under its Estados Unidos Mexicanos constitution of 1824. Spain never acknowledged Mexican independence and Spains King refused to sign the Treaty of Cordova so Spain never treatied any lands over to Mexico. In fact under Mexico's first Apatzingan constitution, California, New Mexico which included Arizona, Texas were not Mexico. Today Mexico is what is left after the USA returned half of Mexico by the Treaty of GH. So "Mexico" since its beginning had been neither here or there. Until both the USA and Mexico negotiated a border. So that quote you mention is pretty ridiculous...
@@seanmacguire6898 the same with Americans still coming to Mexico don't you think?
@@Kat-fq4ei”Texas were not Mexico” are u sure ?
Imagine being the group of 80 soldiers being sacrificed to provoke war.
one of them was Ulysses Grant (he obviously survived), he even wrote in his memoirs that he was ashamed to be an American every time he remembered the mexican-american war.
@@carloscarlin114 Jesus christ, I didn't know Grant was a part of that!
imagine sacrificing 3k+ civilians at the world trader center
By any means necessary was Polk's thinking.
@@nndn-wc6ko Can you Imagine actually joking about that to Americans?
5:30 as a Mexican, I can confirm the government didn't say 'no,' they said 'ni madres.'
LOL. I cackled at that. Such a Mexican response. I can even hear the inflections of utter annoyance on the "ni" and the "madres." :D
Totally
O ni mergas
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There is a movie called my family (1995) and its a good movie and it does give a brief explanation of how California was once México and I've always been fascinated with how California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas were once México. Because i always wanted to know how California has street names in Spanish and cities in Spanish as well. This video explains it well. Thank you
Did the movie explain that California and all the SW were under Mexico's rule for only 25 years, known as the SW Mexican Period. That's about the extent of "was once Mexico"... There was no Mexico or Mexican before 1824. California, Texas and New Mexico got their names from Spain starting in 1550 to become territories of New Spain through Spains explorations by land and sea. "California" was a mythological tale in Spain extended to the New World. Texas was named after Louisiana Caddo tribes. California and New Mexico extended to Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona lands all claimed by Spain.
What are today NM, TX, CA were colonized by Spain. Towns like Santa Fe, Taos (Don Fernando), Albuquerque, Socorro, El Paso, San Antonio, Nachotiches, San Diego, San Francisco, Monte Rey were early Spanish Colonial settlements 1598-1770 of the Spanish Colonial Period of 250 years up to 1821. Nevada, Utah, Colorado were not colonized during the Spanish Period. The Amerindians were northern tribes as Shasta, Chumash, Mohave, Piaute, Shoshone, Ute, Pueblo, Comanche, Caddo, Kiowa, Navajo, Apache Pawnee and many more.
Mexico/Mexican were late arrivals to the SW after 1824. It was Mexican officials who transplanted north after Mexican independence 1821-1848 Mexican Period. Generally Mexicans didn't migrate north until post Mexican War years approx 1880, after USA westward movement, and after the US government quelled the thousands of unconquered tribes in the SW, and placing in reservations. Mexicans established towns in CA, NM, TX border areas. Americans, settlEd in CA and NM 1821; and TX shortly after, with Mexican issued land grant settlements as Texas was vast unpopulated lands and Mexico needed settlers. Trains, the 1910 Mexican Revolution brought more Mexicans. Americans built the SW, Americans influenced the SW as well as Mexican and Chinese in California. Mexicans were deported in the 1950s. There were not a high percent of Mexicans in California until the turn of the 21st century with uncontrolled illegal migration.
Mexicans are immigrants to the USA and do not share an indigenous tribal heritage to northern tribes who are not Mexican. And Mexicans ancestors are not rooted in California, New Mexico or Texas. No parts of the SW are ancestrally Mexico. I didn't see the Hollywood movie, but sure it didn't go into SW history. My guess is its an immigrants story...
Hollywood movie.
That's all you need to know.
No matter WHERE our southwest border would currently be, we'd have the same issues here in 2023. Even if everyone were sneaking into Oregon.
@@TheBatugan77 Unless there had been no USA...lol
@@Kat-fq4eiI personally don't care, but your logic is like saying, "You've only owned that watch for 25 years, so, it's fair for the taking".
@@oirampeceda2409 fair is winning the war, victor has always taken the spoils, it's written into mans DNA... Mexico is no exception. Mexico stole New Spain as Spain never Treaty'd their lands over to Mexico. And Mexico makes a mountain of a molehill on those 25 years over USA annexed lands which were not ancestrally Mexico to begin with, as they make it sound...
This is the first time I've seen a gringo tell the truth about what happened. It angers me that the US always acts all high and mighty regarding the actions of Russia and other countries when they have behaved like this since the birth of their nation. How they acted towards Spain (who helped them gain independence) in Cuba, to get Puerto Rico and the Philippines. The atrocities they commited against catholic, spanish speaking Filipinos in order to "civilize" them. The genocide of native Americans, of which they always accuse Spain, but never give an explanation to why there are only 1% of indians left in the US, but there are MILLIONS south of the border. The coups in Hispanic America, the racism, slavery of black people, the arrogance of calling themselves "Americans" as if the whole continent belonged only to them. I could go on, but you get the idea. I accept that the US is the most powerful country in the world, but I don't accept their fantasy of being a "shining city upon a hill" when they have such a violent and common (for empires) history.
So, I congratulate you. Great video and thanks for telling the truth.
@refriaire you are wrong, the US did not take Philippines, they are an independent country. The US people are fighting for their rights too so don't blame the people here but the Evil Government Leaders.
Great comments. Looking back, the people who have faired worst are the native peoples. They have been completely run over, land stolen, whole tribes disappeared. Looking forward, are we as a human race getting better? We are but a spec in time. Great empires have risen and fallen. What will happen to the US, Russia, China? I don't know, but i am proud of my Mexican heritage and happy we are still here.
@@user-ru7lg5kq3xlet guess ,you're proud of Mexico, but hate US for doing awful things against natives ,when Mexico did the same thing?
Filipinos never spoke Spanish, only the elite did, not sure why that myth is stated over and over. If they did speak Spanish, it was a second or third language and not fluently spoken.
@@gostodemaisdaroca4052
Mexicans ARE NATIVES 🥴
Meanwhile, there is a Karen in Texas shouting at Mexican people for not speaking "American"
America has no official language lol
And the worst is that there's not a official language on the US
And that they should "go back to Mexico".
As a Native Texan, i can confirm this lol
@@snyr but karen doesn't know that because she is karen
Me almost fell asleep at 4:40 am in the morning.*
Me seeing a new notification that says there is a new video of you.*
me forgetting the time*
This stuff is very interesting, great content man
It’s not that good, I’d suggest looking more into the conflict yourself
I love how oversimplified this video is. Like broooo.
He's not telling any lie though
This is a new topic to me. Can you please elaborate on points that were oversimplified or misappropriated.
@@tavencio879he left a lot out
@@nope6908 well its a 13 minute video ... with an ad. Can you be more specific about what truths you think have been distorted from the stuff he left out? Or give some examples of what you think he left out?
@@tavencio879He’s not necessarily telling the whole truth either tho. I hate to be that guy but Mexico also stole Mexico. When The United States stole from Mexico it was basically one colonial power stealing from another after the Indigenous people of both places were screwed over and treated like crap by the colonial powers (The US government tried to wipe out and obliterate Indigenous tribes just like the Mexican government did).
*And....he’s back with another map video*
who doesn’t like these videos? they’re so unique and actually teach us interesting topics
I prefer breakfast video
And it was very informative and well made
@@klauserji no
more like the US stealing territories
If only history was like this in school
I would of never skip classes
Well, U.S. education teaches us with American Exceptionalism, or, only our point of view of history. These videos get rid of that and show everything. Shows how shitty and back-staby America is.
@The Joker how is Mexico a bully? In this war... Mexico was a new nation...it was barely getting its people a nationality....the US started witj 13 original colonies..... Yes the US was thr bully
@@GlizzyGlobbler America may be shitty and back-staby, but we are exceptional. May I please point to nearly all of the 100s of thousands of American pioneered technologies that made this convo possible. Hell, our tax payer funded work into agriculture-- alone-- is credited with 2 billion foreign humans not starving to death in the past 120 years.
America not perfect, but still far better than the rest combined.
@@jakehix8132 those technologies were also either stolen (Germans, Soviet, etc) or by immigrants. The people doing amazing things in the US are almost at not from there originally. America just provides the environment for innovation. But now someone is jealous of another nation taking over.
@Patty 7373 Calling Americans who call out the atrocities committed by America things like 'libtard' or sellout is just victim mentality
Which is why i find it ironic when they say Mexican immigrants invading the border like that part of the country wasnt stolen from mexico in the first place
And the Mexicans stole it from the natives
In the first place, the lands were claimed by tribes for centuries, Texas was claimed by France, lands were Spains for over 250 years, Texas Republic. And Mexico for barely 25 years. In fact, Mexico became a country only 200 years ago in 1824. Mexico did not inherit Spains lands, there was never a Treaty from Spain who did not recognize independence or surrender New Spain. The attempted Treaty of Cordoba was never signed by Spains monarch.
The USA conquered Mexico, and Mexicans migrated illegally to USAs borders after the Mexican War and signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. In fact it was the USA westward movement that incentivized Mexicans migration north. Before the USA, Mexicans had no need for Texas, New Mexico or California which was just an uninhabitable barren wilderness with unconquered Indians ready to attack anyone not of their tribe... Unless within USA borders legally and mass forced illegal entry, it is an invasion... It was Americans who governed, beautified and developed California and the SW.
@@seanmacguire6898mexicans ARE the natives
@@hr-g4640
They’re the natives of central Mexico, at best, not the modern US southwest. Everything else is from being the successor to New Spain. Most Mexicans aren’t even full blooded and almost none practice any indigenous culture.
@@seanmacguire6898"almost none practice indigenous culture" you are so wrong, and probably have a narrow view of what is "indigenous culture." Which let's clarify that there are different and diverse groups of indigenous, and is not just a big single community across US or Mexico, and every group and descendants have different practices and beliefs. The modern Mexican do practice "indigenous culture" is in our food, music, dances, holidays, stories, clothing, and even religion, etc.
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Im European and they don't teach us much about Mexico or talk about it on the news without mentioning drug cartels. This video is like a breath of fresh air! Thank you!
if you are european you dont call yourself european. thats weird, also you dont get teached about mexico the same way you dont get teached about the us. if your country is not involved with it its usually not worth to teach. Unless is something big enough like the industrial revolution or the world wars.
@@CoronelRadec But you'd usually get those kind of info from the news right ?
Im half mexican half european and i do hear mexico a few times in the news
@@a_yan6581 Harder for me to speak about that. Since im spanish and we have a bigger connection to latin america than the rest of europe. I guess i hear about it more often than in the other countries
@@CoronelRadec Mate back when i used to live in Indonesia my hometown even when bloke does possess drugs in any quantity they'd get put up in the TV, because there are plenty of men and woman in their 10s till 20s consuming drugs left, right and center. So in conclusion when someone or some drug cartel is smuggling drugs possessing drugs or whatever they'd be shown on the tele as well but it has to be in a massive scale.
But I don't if they still do that in Indo, I've left the country for quite a while.
*Welp, the comments for this video should be highly interesting and friendly...*
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The creator of this vid is an SJW commie. I dont feel bad about anything. If it makes anyone feel bad, then they are weak minded. Every people on this Earth has stolen land at some point. Im not ashamed of anything the US did.
Christian Bai bro this video had nothing to do with policy. It’s a historical video to try to undo some of the brainwashing that happens in American schools. The euro/ white centric view of history. I think every American should know the history of its nation. Also history has PROFOUND consequences on the present. Yes people today may not have anything to do w institutions of the past but to say they haven’t directly advantaged from those very institutions is obtuse
Es por eso que gran parte del territorio 🇺🇸 llevan nombres en español. Pero aquí estamos de vuelta y poco a poco estamos recuperando nuestras tierras.
You're not recovering your lands. It's USA corrupt politicians open borders. Not only to Mexicans, but to people all over the world...
The lands originally were claimed by Navaho, Apache, Comanche, Piaut, Kiowa, Caddo, Chumash, Shasta, Shoshone, Ute, Pueblo, Mohave plus many more northern tribes who spoke their own indigenous tongues. Cannot recover what was never yours...... The Spanish names came from Spain. These USA lands were part of New Spain. Which had nothing to do with Mexico except for 25 years.
Los españoles llegaron y quitaron todas las tierras a las personas indígenas. Por eso hablamos español. Esta tierra tampoco nos pertenece.
Not really, Hispanics are turning into Americans and even though they call themselves Mexicans-Americans. They more identify with America. And once a new generation of immigrant children are born. All they know will be America.
Take it from me. I’m Puerto Rican descent but I solely identify America. Same as many other immigrant children
Claro así será!🙏
Solo falta que gobierne un mexicano y ojalá que haga bien las cosas en Texas
It makes me feel good to hear this coming from an American telling the truth 👍👍👍👍
Europeans are not Americans.
Let’s not forget about the Declaration of Independence!
Birthright thief at its finest!
If the mexicans didnt want to lose their territory, maybe they should've fought better instead of surrendering
@@NicaraguanNacatamale
If you refer to the United States His-Tory; you might want to research the law that applies to it.
Ipso jure as Moorish Subjects are all U.S. CITIZENS.
That’s why all U.S. CITIZENS are residents.
Beside the 14th Amendment is unconstitutional, so all U.S. CITIZENS are squatters!
Fear not, the United States Inc. is insolvent, bankrupt, and dissolved.
The end is near!
@@NicaraguanNacatamalewhat?
@@Jeffthetrueboss My comment is very clear, if you dont understand then read it to yourself a second time
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Your videos are awesome
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As a Mexican I like to think I don't care about these land grabs, but I'd lie if I said this video didn't hurt a bit. As Porfirio Diaz said "Poor Mexico, so far from God, so close to the US".
Mexico only had like 20 years of existing when the independence of Texas happened, so the people of the northen Mexico didn’t feel so mexican. Also the Mexican government only allows white people to live in northen Mexico.
El gobierno mexicano enseña mucho esta historia para generar un patriotismo barato y poner como excusa que no avanzamos por culpa de USA y asi los políticos limpiarse las culpas de sus errores y corrupción.
If they had competent leaders back then they would have never lost the war.🤦♂️
@@EnriqueHernandez-cw3vf wut?
[citation needed]
MrNobodycares100 the Americans have better weapons and that was an advantage in the Mexican-American war.
The Americans cannons where lighter, so this give the Americans a great advantage in mobility. This was a great factor in the victory of the Americans.
magtovi In the museum of Palo Alto in brownsville, Texas and in the museum of historia norestense of Monterrey is this info.
I am SO stoked I found your channel
Great video. What camera are you using to record this?
Dear American friends: Is this being taught in the schools? If not what’s the “official” version?
No, and I graduated highschool from NC in 2019
Yes it is being taught as it is, we conquered Mexico.
Went to school in Massachusetts. Was taught all of this. Public education varies wildly by state.
i was in the texas public school system for a couple of years after immigrating from mexico. in 5th grade they “teach” you the history of texas, and if you’re lucky you get to go to the museum in austin in a big school field trip. the history in plain sight is wrong: the fight at the alamo is drawn out so students think that the settlers were brave and contagious, they never explained why they were there in the first place or how many native americans were murdered. quite frankly, it’s very bias and i was fortunate enough to have also been through the mexican school system to know what actually happened in the battle of the alamo and after.
Samantha Bajonero The Mexicans did the same to the native Americans? What are you talking about? Mexico is a rump state founded by Spanish settlers. Saying that the Mexicans were any better than the american settlers is just flat out wrong. The tejanos would regularly steal land from the natives (who in turn had stolen land from other natives centuries before)
The Mexican army showed at 6:08 is not the Santa Ana's army but the mexican civil war revels under Villa and Zapata 70 years later
Are there any actual photos of Santa Ana?
Yeah there is one but of old man Santa Anna
@@kissingthings2265 there are paintings and movies
@Joe Bland the story facts are quite accurate just some details missing. But to be an american he's quite informed of what he's supposed to ignore.
@@comphysync9084 I'll never understand why lefties project as much as they do. Yes, we patriots are quite familiar with our nation's bad points. We don't ignore them at all.
@Johnny Harris: Great Video 📹! Thank you !
This is a very entertaining constructive, informative video I've seen in months 👏
Mexican history can be summarized in five words:
*”And then it got worse”*
And it’s still getting worse
@@Nonamelol.
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@@Nonamelol. Your argument to not bring up cartels is that they don’t kill random people but just target people. Great that they don’t kill random people but how is it not still terrible? Is that the standards you’re setting?
@@Nonamelol. You are looking at a result of Trump's Presidency, but Biden's Presidency is bringing them right back. California became majority Hispanic in 2015.
Spain: Look how they massacred my boy
Philippines: we are next
@El-Khalifa El-Hamdi Sure Uk en Francés did haha Irony...
Haha funny, Spain colonized and racialized mexico into castas (meaning you're more deserving of rights depending on how white you are) and blew the natural resources for years until Mexico kinda won a war just to have half our country stolen, yeah, that's laughable
@El-Khalifa El-Hamdi u're wrong, they have" leyes.of india's" and the culture was mixing with them.
@@gabrielteddy2588 nah, you you Just typing bullshit
I know the United States is a great country, and Im grateful to have grown up here, but they did Mexico wrong and a lot of other countries throughout history to get their way and to exploit them. And just as the saying goes "what goes around, comes around". One day all truths will come to light and they will answer for their actions. In other words; they will pay. It's called karma. Very well made video Johnny. Thanks for the info.
I dunno man. America murder Mexicans, Mexicans murder the Spanish to break away. The Spanish murder the natives of the Americas, The Moores murdered the Spanish before that, the Iberians of Spain were murdered by the Romans, before them Cathagians, before them the Phoenicians, isn't all of history constant colonisation?
Didn't the natives just as readily slaughter each other brutally, isn't that how they got the land?
I hope not. I’m Mexican myself but looking at how Mexico is right now, I wouldn’t want to live there. I like how the U.S. turned out and kinda want to keep it that way 😅
I love Mexico. And I would definitely go live their. I visit 2-3 times a year to my beautiful Zacatecas. Viva Mexico 🇲🇽
Move to Mexico 🤷♀️🤦♀️
@@elizabethmanzo692 viva Mexico baby 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽. Don’t hate
Man your work is amazing
In Mexico we learn this in school. Our school history books are encyclopedic and cover info from the first settlers in the continent, pre columbian cultures, the spanish invasion, “the birth of Mexico” as the mixture of both conquerors and conquered cultures, independence, revolution and contemporary history. Thank you for creating and sharing this video, you’re always welcome to come to México for this is also your home, Peace ✌️🇲🇽
Your country has a fascinated history, and your history books have covered it well! Wish I can take a look at it one day.
@@joerogaine3093 lmao 😂 you obviously hate Mexico and saying lies
I clicked on your profile and it showed me all the other comments you left on the video and let’s say their not friendly 😂
Just say you hate Mexicans and go it’s not that deep
@@joerogaine3093 good so stop claiming that you’ve been their
when you know you just lying out yo ass 😂😂😂
@@worldhubtv6496 How would you know if ive ever been to Mexico? I live less than 100 miles from it.
@@joerogaine3093 idk just a wild guess you know considering you hate Mexico and all
The last time I was this early the Vikings were still living in Nova Scotia.
Wasn't it Newfoundland?
Those were the Scots lmao
@@HydraMannHistory of Canada, others were there before the Scots. th-cam.com/video/zz440EuFK8Q/w-d-xo.html
I think you mean Newfoundland and the year was 1000AD (or CE)
It’s Vinland, Vinland.
I absolutely love your content.
These After Effects works by him are just
*Phenomenal
Forgot the other Astrid lol
@@averagegamer1684 Asterisk Lol
@@ididntcreatethischannel. lmao correct, My autocorrect is very stupid
I'm mexican and every time I hear about this topic I get pissed. But I understand it because the history of Mexico is based on that, the bad desitions from the authorities, they prefered to solve their individualist problems, and this happened. But we have learned from those mistakes, I'm part of the new generation and I see a lot of potential from us, we are going to change our bad situation, and I'm not talking about the territory I'm talking about the corruption, economy, and the insecurity. Any way I don't hate the US, they were more intelligent in this situation. Is good that you are discovering the real history of country. We have more in common than you think, so stop the racism.
"Every time I hear about this topic I get pissed". Why though? I'm basically half Mexican, but don't get pissed, and don't get why people would be pissed, as this happened almost two centuries ago..
@@sabr3T your land ...your people ..... America's dirty move .. colonisation of your land
You could have been in their place if you had all those land
I’m first generation of Mexican immigrants and I feel you.
It’s hard not to be somewhat angry when you hear about the people of your birth land warring with and swindling the people of your ancestral homeland. It makes me cynical about humanity in general because we should be working together not fucking each other over.
Nuestros países son hermanos y debemos cuidar nuestro tierra como hermanos.
@@Solidsnaikbut the point is you wouldn't have gone to US , if all this never happened !
Cuando desitions :v
Great videos bro!
I love history and geography. Great video.
Out of all the documentaries I’ve ever watched, the one he makes are still my favourite. I have no idea how much general knowledge I’ve gained from his channel like it’s crazy.
Like --not !! This is not knowledge. It is propaganda.
As long as you take into account all the propaganda and factual errors.
It MUST be true, I saw it in a TH-cam video!
The trade of alaska is actually interesting too. Make a vid on it
How the U.S. Stole Alaska. Just getting it started for him. And by trade, you mean trading money for land? Or are you pointing out that just like Russia claiming they owned Alaska which had native peoples, Mexico's claim on most of it's territories weren't really democratically agreed to and kind of a taking by the ones with the biggest army?
2nd best real estate deal ever made right after the Louisiana purchase.
I think Alaska was given to the US for defensive purposes, its next to Russia.
@@nolanmartin6601 Look up Seward's Folly. Alaska wasn't given.
@@johntran527 and what was the first? I'm curious
I love you videos Johnny ... Keep your videos coming so that many more can be enlightened ...☺☺☺
In the meantime Karens are still fighting this WAR....
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And the Karens are from Europe.
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Mexico: I really hate Americans because they take our lands!
Aztec Empire: thats rough buddy
The aztecs used to terrorize and do rituals with the local slaves they used to capture, because they didn't have any competition. Then Spain came and local tribes fought together to overthrow the Aztec Empire. Learn your history
@@Rodrilechan lol like I did not know that
@@Rodrilechan im just saying that "historical lands" is bs because we all know that the lands they called "theirs" came from other poeple before them
As a mexican i dont hate anyone.
The mayority of the mexican let this history in the past
Most Mexicans are descendants of the Aztecs. So your comment makes no sense.
It's like saying that Italians stole Italy from the Romans.
And now we call immigrants "illegal", the irony is crazy
Illegal yes, unless the immigration was processed lawfully for USA citizenship. Borders divide nations, since ancient times.
Yes just keep letting those engineers and scholars over the border without any checks
how were state lines drawn? and what determines how they are drawn?
You forgot to tell that Mexico had a political crisis at the time and the country was divided by 2, that is why the US won the war so easily. Everything else was pretty much covered, great video.
Greetings from México.
That's the thing about whites, they always leave out and replace the truth whenever it isn't convenient for them to let it be known.
The truth is made up by the winners
WHAT POLITICAL CRISIS?
@@JoRgEChavez-to2xd whites?have u ever heard about china?
@@luisd157 And who do you think the Chinese learned it from?
You didn’t talk at all about New Mexico, one of the few portions of this piece of land that had substantial Spanish settlements (compared to Alta California and Texas). Santa Fe is the oldest state capital in the United States, and New Mexicans descended from Spanish and mestizo settlers and indigenous slaves are still here, and often forgotten about. We’re not immigrants, we’ve been here before America or even Jamestown or Plymouth existed.
Just like we California Mexicans Americans, we have always been here yet white folks call us illegals in our own land lol they think that we don't know the truth.
I visited San Diego recently. I took the bus where they tell you the "history of the city" and I was shocked that they didn't mention anything about the land being part of Mexico once. They focused on the business men who invested to build the city. Something like "before them, this was empty". It's really sad how they don't even acknowledge the fact that it was taken from Mexico. I felt like they just wanted to erase that part of history. Great video! Thanks for the hard work on this research.
Wow, exactly like zionist
California was claimed and founded by Spain, Spaniards approx 1540. Colonized by Spain in 1770 and belonged to Spain for almost 275 years. Mexico claimed California for only 25 years, California not ancestrally Mexico. In fact Americans settled in California 1821 just about the same time Mexican government officials took over California from Spain. Many Americans migrated to California after the Mexican War with the US westward movement. Mexican and Chinese were also immigrating at this time. But it was the 1910 Mexican Revolution that attracted Mexicans to the north escaping Mexico's government instabilities. While Spain founded the first Spanish Colonial settlements to guard California against Russian claims in an isolated wilderness desert in northern New Spain, with a few years of Mexican intervention 1821-1846 during which Mexico quasi controlled California which was not part of Mexico's main; it was the United States who made modern California what it today.
@@Kat-fq4ei LOL. That's a good example of what the people on the tour said. California belonged to Spain, as the rest of the Mexican territory did. When MX got its independence, it included California. You said "Mexico claimed California for only 25 years" That's the kind of rhetoric that I find quite shocking.
@@damarindo Spain did not recognize Mexican independence and Spains King refused to sign the Treaty of Cordova. Spain did not Treaty any lands over to Mexico. Mexico claimed its lands on paper, under its 1824 Estados Unidos Mexicanos constitution. One may consider stolen as Mexico Treaty'd lands over to the USA describing a border, lands and water's. There was no such description of lands under any agreement when Mexico took Spains lands. Under Mexico's first Apatzingan constitution, California, New Mexico/Arizona and Texas were not Mexico. So Mexico's borders changed 4 times within fourty years; from no border as there was no Mexico, then the lands under Apatzingan constitution, then the 1824 constitutional border, and the 1848 border. All in all from later 1800s California had its share of immigrants; Americans, Mexicans, Chinese, Japanese and Philippines up to earlier 1900s. And California had been settled by Americans early on during the SW Mexican Period which started in 1821. Mexican soldiers were given Mexican land grants during this Period to encourage settlers, they were few as California was very distant, isolated wilderness and conditions were as uninhabitable as during the Spanish Period, very difficult to settle with dangerous unconquered raiding Indians. Americans were the most population and built Californias infrastructure. Bottom line is Mexicans were not ancestrally rooted in California, they were late arrivals in the 1800s as were Anglo Americans. European Spain was the claimant, settler and founder of early California. It was the USA government who subjugated the Indians..
@@Kat-fq4eiin those 25 yrs there were almost no Mexicans all were still novohispanos for the Viceroy of new Spain. But as always the Anglos didnt keep their promises to the novohispanos and kicked them out or sent them to reservations. As always Anglo supremacy reigns supreme where ever they go
These videos about colonization and maps and borders have taught me more in the past few weeks then I ever knew! I'm almost 40 years old and I was so misled! Thank you John, for opening my eyes.. I'm so interested in this stuff now thanks to you and your team..
_“[•••] now what happens next in the Mexico story gets kind of nuts”_
That line pretty much sums up Mexico’s history
Thanks to the US though
@@makisjnx007 primarily Spain though. Spanish colonial policies did NOT prepare Mexico to be an independent nation. In reality, for obvious reasons, they were always intended to do the opposite.
@@makisjnx007 The US had nothing to do with it. After independence Mexico controlled everything from South America to Oregon. If the country was stable it would’ve dominated world history. The problem is the Spanish intentionally divided the people to make them easier to govern.
@@makisjnx007 Mexico had so many civil wars. It's still one of the least stable countries in the world. The cartels are military level in Mexico.
@@makisjnx007 Mexico was gone to shit since it’s creation as a republic first the problem with family’s that owned more land than almost everyone else, a broken class system, gangs civil war, rebellions. Mexico wasn’t ready to become independent
6:06 That's a foto featuring Pancho Villa, a mexican hero of the revolution that occurred 64 years after this altercation. Actually, in 1846, Pancho Villa wasn't even born. Lol
we can forget that as the image was just trying to illustrate "some mexican warriors from back around 1900" haha
@@gonzalonoriega8644 Entre más sombrerudos y bigotones, mejor
@@gonzalonoriega8644 Pancho Villa was no warrior. He was a stone cold butcher .
@@4cornernan hahaha and how one thing cancel the other? Most of the times it is this stone cold behavior what aloud a warrior to be a "successful" one, you guys also have so many examples of that
@@4cornernan yeah thats pretty much every famous warrior in history
Does youtube strike any of your videos on these topics? Or demonetize?
An interesting fact about Polk is that after he accomplished his goals he left office. Based on his "successes" I think he could've easily won a second term, but he did just about everything he wanted in his first so he didn't run again.
He died bro
@@ashariaee yeah but like he had no ambitions to run in the next election him dying isn’t particularly relevant to the fact that he had already retired from politics 3 months earlier
Basically Emperor Diocletian
Polk was pretty smart. Using war tactics to gain land from Mexico and negotiating with the British for the Oregon Territory to finalize the ever-expanding United State to a coast-to-coast continental country.
Polk die as any king or tyranny dictator early death. Santan takes them directly to hell, to get tormented for eternity..
Welp, American's habit of "going to war for freedom and defense" is actually old James Polk's strat. History really is repeated once in a while.
podster12II let’s not pretend Mexico was a free society at the time, Santa Anna, general of French Invasion and Alamo fame, was the dictator of Mexico
@@wtripley Yes so?? much better than state that used Black people for free labour
What is "welps" is it an expression, are you responding to a person named welps??
@@tobiasmercader8091 welp = excited well
beautiful strategy
Conquered, not stolen. Also you used photos that weren't from that era. I mean Poncho Via? Really? Fail!
I agree with this but how do you misspell Pancho Villa
Stolen. You didn't watch the whole video.
STOLEN. its hard to admit the truth sometimes.
Thanks for your great job 👍
I really love these Map Videos, it has inspired me to be interested in geography and international affairs. Thank you for the video!
Your reasoning for the Texas colonies wanting to separate leaves out a lot. Like the Mexican constitution of 1824. Texas wasn't the only Mexican state that left Mexico
Well actually if I’m not wrong there were two states...besides texas that would eventually leave Mexico, these states or regions both returned to Mexico, one was a region that later became Guatemala (Spain split the regions on the americas in weird ways), but the state always identified itself as Mexican so they left Guatemala and returned, the other was the republic of Yucatán in the south, 50-50 of population chos e either to return or wanted to be out of the republic, so they split into 3 states, and all of them returned to the Mexican republic. Aaand the were islands that were disputed with England, but I think England got those. For a summary, it was a pretty good video, since the full history would’ve taken hours to explain.
What this very left leaning creator fails to mention, is that President Polk was a Democrat (the one he labelled a "racist") and that President Lincoln was the first Republican president, you know, the guy who emancipated the slaves. Also, we were invited here for a reason - to create a buffer between Mexico and the absolute scourge of the Great Plains; the barbarous Comanches. Mexico didn't bother coming this far north to police the place properly. The Anglos were allowed to bring the slaves (not that, that was a good thing), and they were Mexican Citizens, called "Texians", not Americans. The Hispanic Texians were called Tejanos. The Tejanos and several Indian tribes ALL rose up and fought with us against Mexico, when they tried to disarm us. This was an internal Mexican Revolution, against it's own Mexican government, just 12 years after Mexico "stole" Mexico from Spain. That would be a great video, but I don't think it would be Anti-American enough for the obviously Marxist creator of this video, who is trying to re-write history, instead of completely explain it. One last thing, the last time I checked, Mexico was a sovereign nation. It wasn't stolen. They lost pieces of it, and Texas was for mismanagement.
Steven Hoskins Well...the first ones to abolish slavery and presented ideals for American union were the Republican Party...the Democratic Party...not so much, political views were very polarized. I wouldn’t call him a Marxist based on a few minutes of facts he summarized, history is recorded from different points of view, and different records that match or share common ground eventually become history (just as it happened with the modern bible, many parts were deleted because they were apocryphal), and in recent years it IS a fact that Mexico is considered a sovereign nation, thing is, the constitution changed so much since Mexican independence, so much that the centralization and decentralization of power created total chaos, so much that the dates when the Mexican laws should’ve been applied took longer, so the ones that really knew history were the ones that lived it. There’s a few data kept secret from both sides, just like there are secrets in the library of the Vatican. It’s a TH-cam video, on history, not a lecture, the color grey exists. Also, there were a few issues in Mexico not mentioned that very few know in history; there was a war on race (guerra de castas) on the southern peninsula growing and growing, so the army had lost many men and kept loosing them, the Comanches on the north and the Rebel Mayans on the south (the Mayan war began before the official dates), also the conflicts in Guatemala and the regions that were in constant dispute because they wanted to join the Mexican side in the south but never got an answer because the country’s policies were always on violent dispute between liberals and conservatives. Just an opinion.
@@stevenhoskins7850 "the absolute scourge" AKA the actual rightful habitants of that land that you ultimately stole from them (after almost exterminating their entire population). You were an invading army, of course they defended themselves against you. What a narcissistic, ignorant asshole.
But it was the only one that left by foreigners that decided to not integrate to Mexican culture and keep slavery when it was abolished in a country that had learnt from its mistakes and were people were finally free for real no matter their origin or skin color.
Great info johnny
British settler colonies be like:
“How the US stole the US”
“How Canada stole Canada”
“How Australia stole Australia”
Except New Zealand. They’re cool.
EDIT: Apparently the British Kiwis also did bad things to the natives :(
Yeah I love how well the Maori and white kiwis are integrated
Nah we still totally stole Aotearoa - against the rule of the crown. We even had wars that were against the instructions of the British Royals.
Aotearoa/NZ has it's own dark history because of colonisation
Ummmm, NZ was stolen too. Look up Raupatu and the confiscations of 1863 and 1864 just for starters. That's literally theft by a Government that wasn't acknowledged by the Indigenous People
NOPE, NZ was stolen from the Maori, by the British. Very similar story. Look up "The Citizen's Handbook", it's a hilarious webseries that (briefly) explains a lot of NZ's history.
Americans be like: We’ll steal your land and shout at you to “go back to your own land” okay?
thats legit every country in history lmao. Even native americans invaded eachother and conquered many other lands...
I'm a mexican that lives in México and that's the dumbest shit I've ever heard, no one cares that it was our land 160 years ago, it's history man. We're not salty for what happened 500 years ago either. Be greatful for your country as I'm greatful for mine.
@@pranithgeddapu3432 okay, your point is whataboutism. This can be called out as it is without WELL WHAT ABOUT ALL THE OTHER BAD PEOPLE it's a cowardly argument that is trying to run away from the problem here
@@panic9383 But it doesnt change the fact that every country does it. Trying to say that America is the only country that does it is wrong, and the media doesnt accept that. They focus on America, while mexico took their land from thier natives. However, for SOME strange reason, i dont see "How mexico stole their land" videos do i?It's not a cowardly argument lmao, and what is the problem here? Anti illegal alien sentiments shouldnt be unjustfied, they did commit a crime. Anti immigration, however, is much worse.
I don't know why people are so pressed in their responses to your comments
Thank you for educating me on topics I should have been taught in school. I also love they are short for my a.d.d. brain.
Im in love with your content 💓
"This little mountain range" shows iterally the entire appilachian range
@L MIt is a little mountain range. The Andes or Himalayas are big mountain ranges. Its relative, I don't think it's a joke
@@brunolondinese5857 Well, it is a very old mountain range and therefore isn't as tall as those younger ones -- 480 million years or so of erosion is enough to cause some shrinkage. However their effects on the geography in the region are still huge. In fact, if you were to walk from the east coast to the west coast it is likely that the most challenging part would be the Appalachians (even though the Rockies are much taller.)
Basically.
@@matthewbanta3240 shrinkage? Are you trying to say the Appalachians were... In the pool?
@@matthewbanta3240 The Appalachians were as once big as the Himalayas.
Lol, lesson learned: never just invite people to settle your land for you.
To late a lot american live in Baja
Europe right now👁👄👁
Lot of middle eastern in europe
@@stormbliksem3439 Palestine now
South Asians letting the Brits do it: Well, our future's going to be worst than it was in the past with them.
Very interesting. Thank you.
What was the comment at the end “ I wish the Hawaii video had some high note to end here” ?
Oh. To go back in time and tell the Mexicans that “the Americans aren’t sending in their best” lol
If those settlers were able to whoop the Mexican Army.... They were the best.
moracalde did you not watch the video? How is a recently formed country supposed to fight a developed country?
Good enough to take their land. Lol
HAHAHAHA..Only this time, it would be true.
@@moracalde No them settlers did not fought the battles it was the US army that initially lost the war at Resaca de la Palma. Then the US sent the entire army to ransack Mexico
this reminds me of how my teachers taught this, they made it seem like Mexico was at guilt for this and how they were 'cowards' for not fighting even though they had knives to their necks. Teachers in texas not teaching this correctly is a crime
Or they were teaching the truth and the others (including this guy ) are telling lies.
@@HarrisonJBounel that’s pretty stupid logic.
@@friendlyfriday3445 Coming from someone as ignorant as you, that's a compliment.
@@HarrisonJBounel So bringing slaves to a country that prohibits slaves and didn´t need a civil war to stop slavery is good?
@@g_g1241 You act like America was the only nation that had slavery and originated it when that was far from the truth. Even ignoring the influence from the UK, Spain, Africa etc.
. The settlers in this region did not merely rent the land; they were recipients of Spanish Land Grants. According to the terms of these grants, settlers could establish ownership of the land through diligent cultivation and development, which most of them successfully did.
However, when Mexico defeated Spain in 1821, it was agreed that Mexico would honor the Spanish Land Grants given to the settlers by Stephen F. Austin the Empresario for the Spanish. Regrettably, this commitment was not upheld. Mexican courts decided to allocate these developed lands to other Mexican citizens, leading to a series of contentious property disputes.
Furthermore, the disputed land situated between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande River was subject to conflicting claims of ownership. It was not universally recognized as Mexican territory, and this ambiguity persisted. Notably, Santa Ana, in a historical document, ceded this contested land to the United States at the battle of San Jacinto.
This historical backdrop underscores the intricate nature of land ownership and sovereignty during that period and offers a glimpse into the complex interactions between settlers, governments, and neighboring nations.
Thank you for sharing! I’ve learned so much today.
I go back to this video every single year when I teach. It is truly the best history video I’ve ever seen. Cheers, my dude
LOL it's pure propaganda. History Legends demolished it a year ago.
That is a LIE the natives of Texas were christians and spoke Spanish because were part of Mexico and were part of the Spanish empire before that !! that is a justification to the genocide !!! AWFUL !! Americans always try to hide that Native Americans spoke Spanish and were christians !!
LMAO when you teach? And what do you teach??
@@Hexiad it's the truth . Like it or not .
@@martinalfaro1317, it is propaganda. He is right, History legends broke this video down.
It's incredible how one person is able to create a video with this level of production value. Johnny Harris' Videos are better than most big studio funded documentaries.
IamRoyalll you try it
IamRoyalll also Jason ki talking about the editing
@IamRoyalll "Fake history" lmfao. I wonder what lies you've been sold. None of this is a lie. A different perspective? Yes. A lie? No.
@IamRoyalll If you so much as watched the more than 30 seconds video, you'd know that there was a lot more going on than a simple purchasing deal. The US engaged in a whole lot of foul play prior to any agreement as per usual.
“The settlers completely ignored it”
That is so American 😂
Edit: all of the soft people in the comments crying because they can’t tell my comment is a joke 🤡
They were given the land one wanted mexico didn't either when they found out that they were successful they tried to take it back which started the war 🤔 we purchased the rest this video is just lies and properganda
@@jeremysanchez8329 No mexico wanted the land it was new and undeveloped land so they rented it out to Americans hoping to help the economy but the Americans brought slaves Which was illigal and acted indipendant to the Mexican government
They didn't rent it out they gave it out to settlers to build there economy they thought it was forthless and when it was successful they tried to take it back and they fought back hence the undisputed land
@@jeremysanchez8329 Wow. And I guess Hitler never invaded Poland, it was loaned to him and then the greedy bastards wanted it back later only after Adolf invested a shit ton of cash into developing it, so poor old Hitler had no choice but send the tanks in. Edit: Things you learn on TH-cam!
Huh? What r u talking about u okay 👌were talking about mexico 😆😁🤣😂🤔
Thank you for this very informative video. Greetings from Mexico!
Great video!
You put your advertisers at the end and that is why I liked this video and decided to comment. Also, thanks for the history lesson.
Oh look..., *He's back*. Now try the Philippines.
oooohhhh boy, the effects of colonialism still lingers there for sure
Roland From which power? The Muslims? The Spanish? The Americans? Why not discuss the future Chinese hegemony over the Philippines while at it?
I would be very interested in that. The Philippines has had a tragic colonial past.
its on my list! :)
@@johnnyharris Thank you!
What Polk did to trick Mexico into firing the first shots was heavily criticized by Abraham Lincoln, who did the exact same thing about fifteen years later.
That purchase at the end is worthy of its own video. The Gadsen Purchase is incredible. Hint - we said we needed it for the railroad - it was really a copper mountain we knew about but Mexico didn't.
Lingering conficks after the Treaty of GH as land disputes, illegal border entry, damage by Indian attacks and Mexico in need of funds lead to the Gadsden Purchase.
Lets take a moment to appreciate the efforts he puts into his video ...................
I mean they are quality content 🙏🖤
Thank you! I'm glad that matters. it take a LOT of hours to make these videos. Especially the animations. But my hope is that the effort pays off by making it easier to understand for everyone.
Johnny Harris Yes, it does.
@@johnnyharris ANIMATION!!!!!!! that exactly what makes these videos lively .
ANIMATION!!!!! it makes the video talking to us as a person .............I REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR WORK JOHNNY
KEEP IT UP
Ain"t it great...
Yaa for sure. I agree this guy makes gooood videos
Fact: As a result of the Republic of Texas independence, Mexican Cession and Gadsden Purchase, Mexico lost about 55% of its territory.
@Albert Moore Well, at least you didn't peddle the lie of Mexicans facing genocide.
The United States also paid off the Mexican National Debt.
@@Wayne_Wheeler it's not him deciding that they weren't good enough to be americans, it was the people at the time saying they're not good enough. racist? yes. i'm not saying racism is good but that argument might've saved mexico from full annexation. anyways, it'd be good to just cooperate with each other now instead of reminiscing over old enmities.
lost 55% of the territory that they could barley control or protect. the only reason it was theirs was because they claimed it after a war with Spain.
Albert Moore and* they didn’t because they knew that endless war would ingulf the area
2:23 The one in the middle is Lorenzo Zavala, a Mexican who participated in the independence of Mexico but decided to betray the country to support the Texan rebels since they shared similar ideology.
When you lose the war and cry about the lines that were drawn 😂
Crying over what, a border line out in the middle of nowhere wilderness desert, hundreds of miles away from any place with hundreds of unconquered Indians attacking anyone in sight lol...
You got it by force, same way you got everything today too
Ever hear of the 1846 Mexican War.... Mexico started the War, thinking they would win it.
@@Kat-fq4eithey were defending Texas because the US was trying to take it away. You guys initiated the invasion. Mexico has never started a war with a foreign country. But the USA government wants to lie and say Mexico started.
Ha, "so the Mexican army" and then shows a picture of pancho villa and a bunch of other villa era (early 1900s) fighters
IKR. They have bolt-action rifles ffs...
i was looking for this comment
if you don't know know pancho villa, he was a genocide dictator in mexico wich filled mexico with religeous repretion. (noyt responding to you, is for the readers of this comment to know.)
Same he starts off with a map of the thirteen colonies and talking about the British border in the early 18th century and how the settlers ignore it, then shows a bunch of pictures of covered wagons heading west that were around the mid 19th century.... You skipped about a 150 years there my man....
@@tobiasmercader8091 You've got your Pancho Villa info ALL WRONG. He was never a Dictator. He never ruled Mexico. His faction lost the Mexican Civil War (Mexican Revolution) He was a 'Caudillo', a strongman from the northern part of the country. He constantly was a headache to US Cavalry. He was a Border Bandit.
Whenever I listen to an American saying Mexico I wait for the worst, but I love how objective you are. Thanks for your videos.
Mehico
Mehico
Whenever I hear American say I wait for a thief from the territory of Mexico that is a supremacist who practices slavery without a culture who has guns everywhere and a hypocritical fucking drug addict who calls himself our brother
@@aldrik8300 Most of modern cultures are influenced by USA
@@prometheus5405 not mexico usa are influenced by mexico usa dont have any culture
Good job!
The story goes before the settlement of Texas, after Mexicos independence was officially declared by emperor Agustin de Iturbide the US government was worried how strong the new Mexican empire could get as it extended from Oregon to the Panama border, Joel Roberts Poinsett was sent to México to make the proposal of renting or selling texas to the US, the emperor declined the offer and Roberts Poinsett started a conspiracy to overthrow the Mexican empire using former insurgents that fought alongside the emperor. That is how the Mexican Republican was born from the short lived first Mexican Empire. Then after the Mexican American war presidents Juarez and Diaz offered to the Mexicans in America land and money for them to return to Mexico most of them if not all declined the offer from both Mexican presidents.
After Mexican independence, Estados Unidos Mexicanos constitution declared its citizens "Mexican" under the lands the newly formed "Mexico" claimed under the 1824 constitution , even Americans living in the young Mexican Republic became Mexican. Mexican is a citizenship, not an ethnicity. 25 years does not make a Mexican. Those sparse "Mexican citizens" living in the SW homeland, most under Spains Empire of over 250 years, became USA citizens under the 1848 Treaty of GH. Given the choice to remain in the SW homeland or uproot and resettle in Mexico. Most chose to remain in the centuries homeland , many since 1598, of their Spanish Colonial settler forefathers who guarded New Spains northern and western borders against French and Russian intrusion, had toiled the soil, Catholized and allied with a few peaceful tribes, fought off the many unconquered tribes as Navaho, Comanche, had their local politics, lived apart from the Indian to never merge and form a mestizo culture ; and rejected the new 1824 Mexican government who came far north to their distant lands to govern them and faced with rebellion. The northern tribes bitterly hated the Mexican, fiercely attacking Sonora and Sinaloa. In fact California, New Mexico/Arizona, Texas parts of New Spain never joined Hidalgo or Mexico City in their political dynamics or battles against Spain or Mexican independence. SW was too far from Mexico City, too close to the USA. Come 1821 Americans were settling in the SW, commercial trading via Santa Fe Trail from Missouri and mountain fur traders into California. Americans were land grant settlers in Texas initiated by Spain. The SW was destined to be a part of the USA just as Louisiana and Florida, except for an unsuccessful Mexican intrusion of 25 years.
"Poor Mexico, so far from God, so close to the US": Porfirio Diaz
wtf
Right
Yeah
And to know that with the heavy amounts of lithium found Mexico will be ur next home when USA done fall down wich is about to happen Mexico is the next USA
It was Spain, it's actually conquered American territory
Love this video. Although you touched on 80 man army reaching the Rio grand, there were many more campaigns that invaded further into Mexico such as the Battle of Chapultepec Castle in the heart of Mexico City or in Veracruz during the 1840s. Most people don't know, but Lincoln was a supporter of Mexican independence and had it not been for the Civil War, he was more than willing to send Mexico the necessary arsenal and troops to fight off the French citing the monroe doctrine. Till this day, Lincoln is revered for his attempt to make amends with his southern neighbors.
President Benito Juárez was a staunch admirer of President Lincoln. General U.S. Grant fought in the Mexican War as a young officer. He became fond of the invaded country. He termed the war as the ' most unjust ' in history. A deplorable ' land grab '. He never forgot Mexico. As the victorious commander - in - chief of the U.S. Army at the end of the Civil War , he sent General Sheridan , at the head of a very seasoned 50,000 - men - army to the Río Bravo , in order to pressure the French Army to leave Mexico.
Mexico will never forget that they stole more than half of our territory hypocrites of shit and they call us brothers I do not mention that thanks to you corruption has reigned for more than 36 years that disgusts because they do not end up giving us a good kick in the ass and they keep stealing from us, they don't think they've done us enough damage
Except that the war against the French wasn't for independence, it was a civil war between two factions in Mexico, the Monarchists and the Republicans, the monarchists went to Napoleon III asking for aid against the US backed Republicans (they have been backed by the US since the Mexican Reform War a few years before, same war when Juarez acquired power, consider that he wasn't elected president, he took power during the conflict), the french decided to give troops and economic support to the Mexican Monarchists so they could get more influence in the Americas and also to weaken the influence of the US, hell after the "famous" battle of Cinco de Mayo the General Ignacio Zaragoza wrote to Mexico City asking for permission to raze the town because, paraphrasing him, the inhabitants looked saddened at the news of the French defeat as they saw them as liberators so he feared a rebellion from the people of Puebla.
You forgot to mention that when Texas revolted against the Central Mexican government several other Mexican states did too... This happened because the Mexican government overturned the Constitution of 1824 and Mexico transformed from a federalist system similar to the US to a centralized quasi-dictatorship (hence the flag at the Alamo)... Santa Anna crushed all the other rebellions as he marched north, but his luck ran out at San Jacinto where he was lucky to escape the hangman by agreeing to Texas independence.
Thank you polk!!
All of the Mexican photographs are from the mexican "revolution" (1910), long after the Mexico-United States war. The cliché uniform didn't exist back then, the mexican army used the usual kind of uniform used in europe and america by that time.
There was no cameras back then
No shit sure locks! What did you expect!? Pictorials...
@@Movieclips-hj7dc Yes. But we still have that clothing in Museums. As a matter of fact, it's quite similar to Spanish military uniforms used back in the day. (Big surprise, right).
@@MACQJR Sherlock, as in Sherlock Holmes.
@@chainmail5886 not really..the Mexican Army was stylized after the FRENCH and using Napoelonic tactics, the Spanish were using Guerilla tactics. Do you mean the Mexican uniforms look similar to the Spanish? That still wouldn't be true because the Mexican uniforms were based on the French First legion, French Dragoons ( view the Franco Vietnamese War of 1830) , the Spanish used White uniforms , and in the carlist war they did look similar to the French Army.
Santa Ana and Porifirio Diaz and 90% of influental Mexicans in that time were known Francophobes . The Mexican army was still using Grand Barrage 24 artilleries, which is why they loved the Saint Patricks batallion, Spain didn't use artillery that much, they were more cav based.
People forget that FRANCE was the biggest investor and was culturally dominant in Mexico at this time. Spain had already lost it's influence in Mexico by early 1800s and from 1830-1900 French writters/businesses etc were dominant culture of Mexico. It ended after Porfirio left and the Zapatistas kicked them out.. Then the Iberian culture came back under Cardenas but this was because of FRANCO and millions of Spanish immigrants who flooded Mexico in 1940..
I wish the French were never kicked out because of them we have Bellas Artes, Chapultepec and Mexicos architecture resemble Baroque France (Europe) more than the US.
This why the Mexican American War was also call, "Mr. Polk's War".
Is it? I've never heard it called that. Always just Mexican-American war.
Mmmmmmm 🤔
Polks was bad president he cause the war he lied on Mexicans to take the lands.
@@Saudyization That’s funny because in that era and any year before WWII he was considered to be one of America’s greatest presidents for giving us our modern border. Modern society just likes to demonize great men.
@「Obese Giorno」 lol The US is the only nation that gets in “trouble” for annexing land fair and square. We conquered unstable regions of a failing former colony. Marched all the way to Mexico City and still left the Mexicans with a large part of there territory. I call that Mercy.
whats the up beat music in this video?
Great video. I think that you could have insisted that the main issue between the Texan settlers and the government of Mexico was slavery. So, every time they tell you that Texans were fighting for freedom, keep in mind that it was for the _freedom to own slaves_
@Hector Lomeli
And also the fact that Mexico became a dictatorship, but let's leave that part out.
@@seanmacguire6898 In that case they should have gone back to the U.S. Where having human beings as slaves was perfectly right. You can't deny your kin: The Queen and The Pirate's Empire. That's what they do right? Stealing from weaker nations.
@@seanmacguire6898 the dictatorship was not affecting the American settlers at all, if it was such a terrible dictatorship why did he want to free the slaves then
Not to be insulting but it wasn’t just slaves, the president Santa Anna had been making moves forcing Texans to pay higher taxation and give up their arms cache to defend against native attacks. He also imprisoned a Texan falsely for 2 years. Mexico was not a shining star either, they had constant revolt during the 1820s and 1830s and it was not at all peaceful
@@australium7374 yeah “defending”
This is tough part of Mexican history to teach, and learn, in Mexico at school. As Mexican, I can say this has been a sour episode of our history, but I wanted to highlighted that this was key to create the concept of Mexico as national state beyond the pre-Columbian culture and the Hispanic inheritance.
I’d also like to highlight the fact that we Mexicans haven’t held grudges to our neighbours in the north and I think we’re great hosts with them in their multiple vacations and business trips to our country despite losing half of our former territory with USA.
I’ve been follower of Vox for years and more recently of this channel and I have to say that this video is incredibly honest and critical coming from a US citizen (note that I avoided to say American).
John Edward Gallagher glad it’s not your concern. I’m not trying to blame you guys for our own mistakes. Maybe you should do the same beginning with being humble. Greeting from America
Sultan Abdulhameed II man, this shouldn’t be a forum for hate. This is what I was trying to explain in my initial comment. First and foremost, US is a great country in its own right, that being said we had our bad moments with them in the past, despite of it we the Mexican people have never been blinded by it.
Reason you don't hold any grudges is that you've been successfully coerced by United States of America and its media.
Google about coercion and you'll agree with me.
@@arminius6506 Reason they dont hold grudges is because of due diplomacy, no successful nation holds grudges and stays successful.
Simply put everyone is the same fucking species. There were civilizations to the tip of South America THOUSANDS of year before there were any humans in Europe. Fast forward, the US is a young country with a society regulated by selfish politicians who make it a business. So society, people of every culture, are only really taught what will benefit they're management of the country for years ahead. That's why we learn more of the past online. And México has its own shit to deal with. They don't have time or power to make enemies. Mexicans have been impacted so much. Kinda sucks, but it ain't holding us back thats for sure.
Great video