History Minute (034): “We take nothing by conquest… Thank God.”

Despite the horrors and dishonorable acts of the U.S. in the war against Mexico, reported in earlier History Minutes …

Quoting Zinn, with emphasis added:

Mexico surrendered. There were calls among Americans to take all of Mexico. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed February 1848, just took half. The Texas boundary was set at the Rio Grande; New Mexico and California were ceded. The United States paid Mexico $15 million, which led the Whig Intelligencer to conclude that "we take nothing by conquest. . . . Thank God."

Excerpt From

A People's History of the United States

Howard Zinn

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Vatican Rejects 'Doctrine of Discovery', Used to Justify Colonial Conquest and Land Theft

In a historic shift long sought by Indigenous-led activists, the Holy See on Thursday formally repudiated the doctrine of discovery, a dubious legal theory born from a series of 15th-century papal decrees used by colonizers including the United States to legally justify the genocidal conquest of non-Christian peoples and their land...

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