 Promised to only run for 4 years  Promised to get California from Mexico  Promised to settle Oregon dispute  “Fifty Four Forty or Fight”  Wanted to annex Texas  Believed in Manifest Destiny

 Signed Treaty of annexation with U.S.  Senate refused to ratify the treaty  Houston went to Senate and told them Texas was going to be an ally with Britain  The Senate ratified the treaty

 Texas claimed Rio Grande as southern border  Mexico claimed the Nueces River as its northern border

 Polk Promised to gain control of this area  The United States almost went to war with Britain over this.  Polk did not want to go to war, he agreed that north of 49 degrees latitude would be Britain’s and anything south would be the U.S.

 officially ended the Mexican American War  Mexico was forced to cede California and New Mexico  Cede-to give  U.S. paid Mexico $15 million and honored Spanish-speakers  1853 agreed to pay Mexico $10 million for Arizona and New Mexico-Gadsden Purchase

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