The War with Mexico The United States Expanded its Territory westward to Stretch from the Atlantic to Pacific Ocean

Key Vocabulary and Key People Key Terms  Manifest Destiny  Bear Flag Revolt  Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo  Mexican Cession Key People  James K. Polk  Zachary Taylor  Winfield Scott

Manifest Destiny’s Child  The United States looked to settle the land in the west though it was occupied by other people  John O’Sullivan said it was Manifest Destiny for the United States to stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean  When James K. Polk Became President in 1844 manifest destiny would become US Political Policy

Polk a dots  In looking to complete Manifest Destiny, Polk looked to take over all of the Oregon Territory from Great Britain  The United States would set the Boundary of Canada at the 49 th parallel and control the territory to the south of the line

This Means War!!  While avoiding war in Oregon War with Mexico was brewing over the territory of Texas  The Southern Border in Mexico was split by 100 miles and thousands of miles were at stake in finding an agreement  Looking to settle the dispute peacefully, Polk sent John Slidell to offer 25 million dollars to Mexico for California, Texas, and New Mexico  When Mexico disagreed Polk sent Zachary Taylor to the Rio Grande and Mexico sent soldiers to ambush the US troops killing or wounding 16 troops

Civil War Foreshadowing  When News of the Attack made it to Washington, congress would declare war on Mexico  The war would split the United states with Abraham Lincoln from Illinois and The Northeast and west Questioning the war  The South looked at Mexican Territory as a way to increase the Slave States  Frederick Douglass would try to spread the abolition movement to Mexican Lands  The war in Mexico would begin in May 1846 with many Americans thinking it would be a quick and easy war

San Francisco….Here I Come  General Stephen Kearny would be sent to occupy New Mexico as war spread across the Santa Fe Trail  Kearny would take New Mexico without firing a bullet and moved to a lesser populated California  During the Bear Flag Revolt John C. Fremont would Arrest the Mexican Commander in the North and Declare California a part of the United States  US Forces would reach California in the Fall and control the entire state

South of the Border….Down Mexico Way  American Forces would invade Mexico from Two Directions and General Taylor met General Santa Anna at Buena Vista in the North  After Two Bloody Days of Fighting Santa Anna would retreat ending the war in the North  In the South, Troops led by General Winfield Scott would reach Mexico City at the castle of Chapultepec  Though Resistance was fierce Mexico City would Fall to Scott in September 1847

Vacation Spots  Under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo the Border of Texas was set at The Rio Grande River  The United States also received Mexican Cession including California, Nevada, Utah, Most of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming  One Half of Mexico would be Lost and Mexico felt the United States had provoked the war to take the land

Dude Ranch  The US would pay Mexico 15 Million Dollars and pay the 3.25 million dollars in claims US Citizens had in the region  The United States also agreed to Protect the 80,000 Mexicans in the Region  Mexican Settlers were now a Minority and were out of place in the new Country  The Mexican Settlers would teach the US how to develop the land for farming, ranching and mining creating a new blended Southwestern Culture

I’ve Been Working on the Railroad  The United States would complete the United States with the Gadsden Purchase for 10 million dollars  The Land would be used to complete the transcontinental railroad in the southwest

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