In return for the bond purchaser's money, the issuer provides the bond, which is nothing more than a promise to pay a specified rate of interest during the life of the bond and to repay the face value (sometimes called the par value) of the bond after a certain date (i.e.,when it matures).
Rating Newest Oldest. Best Answer: The Mexican-American War is viewed by many historians as a major cause of the Civil War because the disposition of the territory that was gained from Mexico became a major area of conflict between the North and the South due to the issue of slavery.
The Mexican War between the United States and Mexico began with a Mexican attack on American troops along the southern border of Texas on Apr. 25, 1846. Fighting ended when U.S. Gen. Winfield Scott occupied Mexico City on Sept. 14, 1847; a few months later a peace treaty was signed (Feb. 2, 1848) at Guadalupe Hidalgo.aylor did so, arriving at the Rio Grande on Mar. 28, 1846. Abolitionists in the United States, who had opposed the annexation of Texas as a slave state, claimed that the move to the Rio Grande was a hostile and aggressive act by Polk to provoke a war with Mexico to add new slave territory to the United States.