n.
1.after disputes over Texas lands that were settled by Mexicans the United States declared war on Mexico in 1846 and by treaty in 1848 took Texas and California and Arizona and New Mexico and Nevada and Utah and part of Colorado and paid Mexico $15,000,000
Idiom of the Day
do a land-office business
to do much business in a short time
The children are doing a land-office business by selling the cold drinks next to the stadium.