The Impact Of The Treaty Of Guadalupe Hidalgo

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo greatly impacted the Mexican people living in Texas. In the Comisión Pesquisidora de la Frontera del Norte document “The Fate of the Tejanos” and in Manuel Crescencio Rejon document “México Debates the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo” they examine and describe the ways the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo had negatively impacted the Mexican people. In the Comisión Pesquisidora de la Frontera del Norte document “The Fate of the Tejanos” they examine two major points which were to describe the conditions in which the Mexican people were having to face after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and to describe the ill-treatment and abuse of the Mexican people living in Texas. The document demonstrates how the Mexican people were forced off of their land and were killed off. The document uses

The document states “In the vicinity of San Antonio, Bexar [County], Texas, parties of armed men had been organized for the exclusive purpose of pursuing the Mexicans upon the public roads, killing them and robbing their property, and that the number of victims was stated to have been seventy-five. That it was also informed that Mexican citizens by birth, residing peaceably at San Antonio, under the protection of the laws, had been expelled from the place, and finally that some of the families of the victims of these extraordinary persecutions had begun to arrive in Mexico on foot and without means, having been obliged to abandon all their property in order to save their lives.” (“The Fate of the Tejanos” ) The text examines the ways that the American people and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo negatively affected the Mexican people. The American settlers killed many of the Mexican people and stole their land. They also forced the Mexican people to leave Texas and to go back to Mexico with nothing but the clothes on their backs. The document also states ““The residents of Uvalde