Ransom is the practice of holding a prisoner or item to extort money or property to secure their release, or it may refer to the sum of money involved. In an early German law, a similar concept was called weregild.When ransom means payment, the word comes via Old French rancon ranÃ§on From latin = redemptio buying: back  compare . Redemption In judaism ransom is called-kofer (Nefesh: hebrew ××¤×¨ â). × ×¤×©among other, uses the word was applied to the poll tax of a half shekel to be paid by every male above twenty years at the. censusn an early German law, a similar concept was called weregild. When ransom means payment, the word comes via Old French rancon ranÃ§on From latin = redemptio buying: back  compare . Redemption In judaism ransom is called-kofer (Nefesh: hebrew ××¤×¨ â). × ×¤×©
The war resulted in both countries signing the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848. Known as the Mexican Cession, the United States purchased land west of the Rio Grande. This area was the present states of California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, western Colorado, and New Mexico. In 1853 the Gadsen Purchase allowed the United States to acquire far southern Arizona, and New Mexico.
As a result of the U.S.-Mexican War, the settlement of the Oregon boundary and the annexation of Texas, the U.S. gained about 1.2 million square miles of land, over one-third of its present territory. But it incurred a number of indirect effects from the war, and these cannot be ignored.