Texas “left” Mexico because the white Americans in Texas wanted to keep slavery when Mexico outlawed it since their white anglo population was significant enough that the Mexican government that just went through a revolution (and also just barely came into being) couldn't do much about it.
Eh, it started under Mexico and Spain (The California Missions were basically genocide plantations) and was intensified by the USA, by the time the Gold Rush Happened, California was a US Territory
James Polk’s massive hate boner for Mexico after Mexico lost the Mexican-American war (which was incensed over territorial disputes over Texas before the Civil War funnily enough) and also the USA’s version of Lebensraum, Manifest Destiny.
California didnt really have a large enough Mexican population compared to the Southern parts of Mexico to defend from the USA, the population boom didnt come until much later
Texas “left” Mexico because the white Americans in Texas wanted to keep slavery when Mexico outlawed it since their white anglo population was significant enough that the Mexican government that just went through a revolution (and also just barely came into being) couldn't do much about it.
Ok but the california gold rushes wiped out 80% of the natives there so glass houses
Eh, it started under Mexico and Spain (The California Missions were basically genocide plantations) and was intensified by the USA, by the time the Gold Rush Happened, California was a US Territory
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James Polk’s massive hate boner for Mexico after Mexico lost the Mexican-American war (which was incensed over territorial disputes over Texas before the Civil War funnily enough) and also the USA’s version of Lebensraum, Manifest Destiny.
California didnt really have a large enough Mexican population compared to the Southern parts of Mexico to defend from the USA, the population boom didnt come until much later