2. Manifest Destiny

3. Missouri Compromise

4. Texas Stephen Austin & 300 settlers 1830 … 20,000 Americans, 2000 slaves, few thousand Mexicans A job for Santa Anna

5. Remember the Alamo! 5,000 Mex. troops vs.187… 10 days Sam Houston/ San Jacinto 1836 Republic of Texas

6. Oregon

8. James K. Polk #11 Expansionist 54º40’ or fight! 1845 Texas joins Announced he wanted not only Oregon but the Southwest Compromise reached with GB Back to Texas …

9. War with Mexico Which border? Nueces River or Rio Grande War never formally declared Zachary Taylor “Hero of Buena Vista

10. Winfield Scott “Hero of Mexico City” Santa Anna loses again! Dissatisfaction with results … N vs Polk

11. Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo Rio Grande is the southern border New Mexico and California ceded to US $15 million plus claims

13. California John C. Fremont Bear Flag of the Republic of CA Gold Rush 1848 Missouri Compromise does not fit movement

14. Congress could control slavery in the territories hence … Wilmot Proviso … all land in the Mexican Cession lands is free soil Paranoia increases in South “popular sovereignty” Allows Congress to avoid the issue Until 1849…CA wants in!!!!