1845: Slaveholding Texas is annexed into the United States, sparking the Mexican War. By 1848, Mexico cedes more than half of its territory to the U.S., including New Mexico and California in ...

a move that analysts warn could reignite trade tensions with the United States. A map created by Newsweek shows the states ...

The Gulf of Mexico is now called the Gulf of America for Google Maps users in the United States, keeping with ... for more than a million places in U.S. territory. The system's new description ...