“The U.S. Senate advised and consented to ratification of the treaty by a vote of 38–14. ... The amount of land gained by the United States from Mexico was further increased as a result of the Gadsden Purchase of 1853, which ceded parts of present-day southern Arizona and New Mexico to the United States.” hope this helps
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As a Chinese immigrant I don't find this too helpful, to me, the only way to show our strength is to replicate the Rooftop Koreans back in the 90s. It doesn't matter how much we march and protest, if a racist decided to pick on me, I WILL try my hardest to make sure he'll regret it. Just a personal opinion.
Explanation: I been living in U.S for almost 8 years, and I never hated this country and its people so much until today, I'll try my best to escape this divided and increasing polarized country after I graduate from my university.
In 1849 Carl Schurz came to America. He settled in Wisconsin, studied law, heard Abraham Lincoln debate Stephen A. Douglas, and became a big Lincoln fan. When Lincoln was elected president in 1860, he named Carl Schurz ambassador to Spain. Then he asked Schurz to come home to fight in the Civil War and made him a general.
After the war, Schurz became a newspaper writer, an editor, a U.S. senator, and secretary of the interior See It Now - Carl Schurz Addressing the Reform Conference. He worked to conserve the wilderness and to be fair to Indians when hardly anyone thought of those things. Like many American immigrants, Schurz had fallen in love with the ideals of the Declaration of Independence and the guarantees of the Constitution: "If you want to be free," he said, "there is but one way. It is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors."
