mexican cession & the mexican american war (1846 - 1848) military conquest

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Mexican Cession & the Mexican American War (1846 - 1848) military conquest

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Page 1: Mexican Cession & the Mexican American War (1846 - 1848) military conquest

Mexican Cession & the Mexican American War

(1846 - 1848) military conquest

Page 2: Mexican Cession & the Mexican American War (1846 - 1848) military conquest

War in Texas Mexico = Texas annexation, act of war No border ever agreed upon (Dispute

over Rio Grande) While patrolling the

Rio Grande, American Soldiers killed

Declare war on Mexico

Page 3: Mexican Cession & the Mexican American War (1846 - 1848) military conquest

New Mexico and California Polk determined to have California and

New Mexico Areas first colonized by Spain, then

became Mexican territories Both areas fell during Mexican war Invades Mexico http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuC-ucEZEJ4

Page 4: Mexican Cession & the Mexican American War (1846 - 1848) military conquest

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Mexico gives up Texas and Mexican

Cession (Half of ALL its territory) U.S. pays Mexico and promises to

protect Mexicans in Texas A few years later, Gadsden Purchase

(1853) – bought from Mexico to complete sw border for transcontinental RR