1. Warm-up: When Where Who Purpose
Read page 410 on “The New Mexico Territory”
Title is Santa Fe Trail.
Write the question and answer on a sheet of paper.
When
Where
Who
Purpose
Describe the physical characteristics of the trail.
Who were the Americans trading with on the Santa Fe Trail?
What do you think shut down the Santa Fe Trail?
Why did many Americans want the US to acquire New Mexico?

2. This led to……. Warm-up: When- 1821
Where- Independence MO to Santa Fe, NM
Who- William Becknell
Purpose- Trade with Mexico
Describe the physical characteristics of the trail.- flat land, easy to transport goods
Who were the Americans trading with on the Santa Fe Trail? – Mexico
What do you think shut down the Santa Fe Trail?- Railroads
Why did many Americans want the US to acquire New Mexico?- Manifest Destiny
This led to…….

3. Mexican War Video

4. DISPUTED TEXAS BORDER

5. Causes of the U.S. – Mexican War
1) President Polk wanted to expand the United States
2) He annexed the Republic of Texas in 1845
3) Border dispute between Texas and Mexico
Texas claimed southern border was the Rio Grande River
Mexico said NO IT’S NOT! It’s the Nueces River!

6. Effects & Impact- Mexican War
1) Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
Ends the war with Mexico
U.S. gains the Mexican Cession - territory of New Mexico, Arizona, & California for $15M Parts of present day states of CA, NV, UT, AZ, CO, NM, WY
2) Gadsden Purchase -U.S. paid Mexico $10 million
Acquired land necessary for a southern transcontinental railroad
3) U.S. Territory extends from Atlantic to Pacific

7. Effects & Impact- Mexican War
The Compromise of 1850
1) CA is a Free State
2) NM Territory – No restriction on Slavery (popular sovereignty – Let the people decide)
3) NM-Texas border dispute in favor of NM
4) Slave trade, not slavery, abolished in D.C. (District of Columbia)
5) Stronger Fugitive Slave Laws
Required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves
Anyone who aided a fugitive could be fined or jailed

8. Vocabulary Words: Cede – to give up, to surrender
Mexican Cession – Mexico
gave up California and
New Mexico
Aggression – hostile, violent

9. Persecute – to harass, harm or annoy someone because of race, political belief or religion. (ex. Mormons)

10. Refugee – a person who has been forced to flee their homeland because of war, persecution or natural disaster. (ex. Mormons)

11. What ordinance is this map showing?

12. Look at the picture called “American Progress” by John Gast (1872) below and answer the questions:
1. How does this painting represent Manifest Destiny?
2. What are 4 images in the picture that indicate Westward Expansion?
3. Who do you think the young woman in the painting represents?