What if the US Annexed Mexico

Upon the outbreak of the Mexican-American War, many in America saw this as an opportunity to seize vast amounts of territory, most notably California. And, after the war, America would sign the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, which would give California and New Mexico to America. But, before this, there was actually a push for the US to annex ALL of Mexico. Mexico was extremely unstable, so, as a result, those in favor of annexation saw this as the only way to pacify the region. But, in the end, due to backlash, this wouldn't end up happening. But, what if that changed? What if America had annexed Mexico? Enjoy!

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0:00 Introduction
0:26 Background
5:44 Scenario

[stargazer-elite]

I could definitely see this happening especially if the USA had gotten Canada beforehand as the push would be about keeping the balance of northern free states and southern slave states

[monsieurcharcutier]

Best alternate history I'll see all day, it would be cool to see what would have happened if Winfield Scott had become the Mexican dictator. Maybe for the next one?

[catandfoxworldbuilding]

I like the scenario, but there's simply no way the USA returns anglo settled lands to a newly independent mexico in reality, its unlikely mexico can even muster the ability to gain independence without the americans giving up very prematurely, as american rule would be foreign, but it would be significantly more stable and would gradually bring democratization with it with the americans valuing self determination fairly highly.

A more likely outcome is probably something closer to Canada and Quebec, where there's some fighting early on, followed by significant concessions to ensure the minority territory is retained without further conflict, leading to occasional peaceful calls for independence as it is very slowly assimilated.

[TheRavenLord]

An Unified North American Union of Canada, Mexico, and Central America would be interesting

[barricadedpurifier]

Imagine how crazy the US would be if they had annexed all of the Americas.

[familygash]

*VIDEO SUGGESTION:*
What if The First Mexican Empire had survived?

[tupe]

idk how often other people get into this, but considering how it's generally accepted that the US would have stomped Mexico if they agreed to the Zimmerman telegram (forgot it's name), I'd be curious to see how the post stomping situation would look for Mexico

[aio]

Why would Republicans have a harsher stance on the South? Does Lincoln not get killed in this timeline? Otherwise that does not make much sense. Johnson was a Southern Democrat, if he still succeded Lincoln, and the war was even quicker due to the help of the Mexicans, I see no reason why the U.S. would punish the South more harshly than they did in the OTL.

[RussianBlackLeague]

imagine how much more oil America would have from annexing, America and Mexico produce so much oil but a certain group won't let America dig up the oil we have

[James-rmsr]

I could see it where America manages to pacify Mexico. Mexico if it wanted independence again might be a problem in the civil war. As The Lincoln didn't want the Union to break apart and if anything it is possible central Mexico would probably be trying to push for statehood. They two states that might be made from this point would be central a non slave state and north mexico a slave state. Either that or during the war Mexico might offer as a territory to prove itself and attempt to crush the south. So we might see a lot more fighting in the west in this timeline. However, Lincoln giving them all the right to vote would cement the Republicans as the main party for the Mexicans. Also, we would expect Central Mexico to become very very religious.

[etorawa]

One of my best friends is of Mexican heritage, he once told me a story of when he was visiting family in Mexico, and during a family gathering some of the older family members were talking about how it would've been a great thing for Mexico and its people had the US annexed the whole country during the Mexican American War.

[dominicadrean]

What if everything want horrible for France

[Jameswebbtelescope]

Can you do a part 2 this was very interesting!

[rogeliovaldez]

I really don't think the south at the time had the population to affect the demographics or rather politics of north mexico in such a shorth time period i also feel like slave revolts wouldve been more common

[NonyaBusiness-isfc]

The US would have been more like Mexico in many ways. Mexican culture would have been the dominant culture

[omargerardolopez]

Please do a video on Antonio López de Santa Anna, he was quite a character

[thegamecock]

I have an idea: what if the US never expanded past the Mississippi River and sticked with their original borders that Britain gave them after the revolution?

[GlassJoe]

With the addition of Mexico I can see the short term agreement of adding slave states and free states continuing for the short term. Having a few extra years at least only could help the North and West to industrialize more. The US could simply leave Mexico into open rebellion tell after the war. Most close territory would have been Southern territory. It would force the Confederate government to send forces out west to fight Mexico. A more industrialized North and West plus being forced to send troops out west only weakens the Confederate forces. The US government just makes a deal with the rebels after the war. The Northern Mexican states stay with the US and Mexico gets the Yucatan back.

It would be interesting to see how the future would look especially during ww1 and on.

[thorpeaaron]

You should do a scenario where New England secedes from the Union during the War of 1812.

[redjirachi]

James K Polk was already an underrated president, but this is a certified 'Murican banger