1. Expansion After Mexican War
1846

3. American invasion lasted about a year…..
--- Generals: Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott
Taylor captured Monterrey, Mexico in Sept. 1846
Read pg. 296

4. America Gains the Spoils of War
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: Mexico agreed to the Rio Grande border of Texas and ceded New Mexico and California to the U.S
Gadsden Purchase: Along with the settlement of Oregon and the Treaty of Guadalupe, the Gadsden purchase est. the current borders of the lower 48 states.

5. Treaty of Guadalupe

6. Gadsden Purchase

7. Taylor’s Election in 1848
the Democrats nominated Lewis Cass for president and hesitated about the extension of slavery into America’s vast new holdings (new purchase of land territory).
*Martin Van Buren was to lead the Free-Soil Party---supported a congressional prohibition on the extension of slavery into the territories.
*Buren----10% of the popular vote and no electoral votes
*Whig nomine, war hero, Zachary Taylor---easily won the election

8. Zachary Taylor

9. Gold Rush The California Gold Rush
The Rush begins!!! Gold was discovered in 1848 by a carpenter (John Marshall) working on John Sutter's property in Sierra Nevada's (California)----Sutter’s Mill

10. Analyze Political Cartoon Read pg
Analyze Political Cartoon Read pg Gold fever traveled eastward: migration to California went from 400 in 1848 to 44,000 in Forty-niners: the prospectors who flocked to California in 1849 in the gold rush were people from Asia, South America, and Europe.

11. Impact & Diversity of Gold Fever
San Francisco---- because of its location as a supply center---- “pandemonium of a city” according to a traveler
*population exploded from 1,000 in 1848 to 35,000 in 1850
*Gold rush brings diversity---By 1849, California’s population exceeded 100,000. The Chinese were the largest group to come from overseas.
*Free blacks also came by the hundreds
1855—the wealthiest African Americans lived in California
Demographics of California----mix including slaves—but a constitutional convention in 1849 drew up a state constitution that outlawed slavery
California won state hood in 1850, after a protest in Congress and the issue between Northerners and Southerners , each intent on winning the sectional argument over slavery.

12. Complete Blank Map of the United States
*Label each state
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14. Answer Key Map