What are two facts of the Mexican American war that you found interesting
1) The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the Mexican American War in 1848, led to the largest single expansion of the United States' territorial boundaries. Under the treaty, Mexico ceded approximately 55% of its territory, including present-day California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, and parts of Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas, and Oklahoma, to the United States. This expansion significantly shaped the modern-day geography of North America.
2) The Mexican American War was one of the first conflicts to be extensively covered by the emerging field of photojournalism. The daguerreotype, an early photographic process, was utilized to capture images of the war by photographers such as George Barnard and Carl Nebel. These photographs depicted scenes of battle, landscapes, and soldiers, providing a visual documentation of the war and giving people back home a unique perspective on the conflict.