1. Today’s Agenda 5/5 Aim: How did we acquire land from Mexico?
HW: Oregon Trail writing assignment due Monday, 20 points

2. WHY DID MEXICO ALLOW AMERICANS TO SETTLE IN TEXAS?
Mexico hoped the Americans would develop the area and control Indian attacks

3. WHAT DID AMERICANS PROMISE TO DO IN RETURN?
Americans agreed to become citizens of Mexico and to worship in the Catholic Church

4. CONFLICT BETWEEN THE AMERICANS AND MEXICO
In 1830, Mexico forbade anymore Americans to move to Texas-They were afraid Americans wanted to make Texas part of the U.S.

5. DATE OF TEXAS INDEPENDENCE? COMMANDER?
March 2, 1836
Sam Houston

6. WHAT DID TEXANS CALL THEIR NATION? PRESIDENT?
The Lone Star Republic
Sam Houston

7. PROBLEMS FOR THE NEW NATION
Mexico refused to accept the Treaty signed by Santa Anna
Texas was nearly bankrupt

8. ANNEX
To add on

9. WHY WERE SOME AMERICANS AGAINST ANNEXING TEXAS?
Many northerners were against annexing Texas because it would add a slave state to the Union
President Jackson was afraid it would cause war with Mexico

10. COMPROMISE WITH BRITAIN OVER THE OREGON TERRITORY
Oregon was divided at 49 degrees latitude-Britain got the land north of the line and the U.S. got the land south of the line

11. HOW DID SAM HOUSTON GET THE U.S. TO ANNEX TEXAS?
He pretended that Texas might become an ally of the British

12. WHY DID THE ANNEXATION MAKE MEXICO FURIOUS?
They were concerned that California and New Mexico would want independence too
Mexico never accepted the independence of Texas

13. WHY DID THE SOUTH AND WEST SUPPORT WAR WITH MEXICO?
People in the South and West wanted more land

14. CEDE
To give

15. The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
WHO WON? NAME OF TREATY?
The United States
The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

16. WHAT LAND DID WE GET? WHAT DO WE GIVE MEXICO?
All of California and New Mexico territories
$15 million

17. GADSDEN PURCHASE HOW MUCH?
A strip of land in present day Arizona and New Mexico
$10 million