Thursday, April 18, 2019 - Commack Schools · Sea, Mexican- American War. Annexation of Texas Texas...
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Thursday, April 18, 2019
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MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR
Wednesday April 17,2019
Statement of Inquiry: Environments have both positive and
negative effects on human movement and settlement
Homework: Vocabulary quiz tomorrow!
Aim: Evaluate opposing sides of the Mexican-American War, was President Polk justified for declaring war on Mexico?
Do Now:
1. What does annex mean?
2. What is a border dispute?
3. Do we have any today?
1.To add land
2.A disagreement over the
possession/control of
land between 2 or more
countries
3.India/China, South China
Sea, Mexican- American
War
Annexation of Texas
■ Texas was annexed by the United
States in 1845
■ Split the North and South of the
United States
■ Mexico was campaigning for border
raids and warning that any attempt
of an annexation of Texas would
lead to war
Border Dispute
■ U.S and Mexico
disagreed on the border
between their countries
■ U.S: Believed the border
was at the Rio Grande
■ Mexico: Believed the
border was at the
Nueces River
Southerners/Westerners
■ Agreed with war
because they would
be getting more land
■ Slavery would expand
Disagreed with war
because slavery
would be expanding
Northerners
President James K. Polk
■ 11th President of the United States - elected in 1844
■ Campaigned/promised to fulfill our Manifest Destiny- wanted to expand clear to the Pacific Ocean
■ Wanted war to happen
■ Had his eyes on California and New Mexico
■ Offered to purchase these lands, but those offers were rejected wanted to send in military troops to a disputed zone between the Rio Grande and Nueces River
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U9vbZwFZL4
Source #1 Notes: President James Knox Polk, speech to Congress, May 1846
■ Mexico has been bothering us for a long time
■ Mexico has actually invaded our land
■ Mexico has killed Americans on American land
■ Mexico started the war, so now we must fight
■ We must protect our honor and our rights
■ I ask Congress for a declaration of war, so we can fight and ultimately, bring about peace
Source #2 Notes: Abraham Lincoln, speech to the House of Representatives, 1846
■ President Polk sent the U.S. army onto land in Texas that Mexico never agreed was ours
■ The Mexican people never agreed that Texas belonged to the U.S.
■ So, Polk started this war
■ He is avoiding answering questions about this incident
■ He is focusing on the glory of war
Mexican American War 1846-1848■ April 1846, Mexican cavalry attacked U.S
troops in the disputed zone- border
dispute
■ Two day later, Congress declared war on
Mexico
■ American Navy dominated the sea
Double cross by Santa Anna
■ With Mexico losing all these battles, they turn to Santa Anna
■ Santa Anna was exiled to Cuba
■ Santa Anna convinced Polk that if he was allowed back in Mexico, he would end the war in a favorable to the U.S
■ Immediately coming back, he double crossed Polk and leads Mexico right into battle
■ Santa Anna does not have a lot of victories and soon realizes they have no chance against the United States
■ Santa Anna resigns
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo-1848
■ U.S waits for a new government that is
capable of negotiations
■ 1848 treaty is signed:
-establishes Rio Grande as the U.S-
Mexican border
-Mexico recognizes the annexation of
Texas
-agreed to sell California and the rest
of its territory north of the Rio Grande
for $15 million MEXICAN CESSION
Sound familiar???
■ Mexico loses HALF of its territory
British Cession, 1818
■The British Cession was
a treaty signed between
Britain and the U.S.
which establishes the
boundary between the
U.S. and Canada at the
49th parallel (latitude)
Spanish (Florida) Cession, 1819
■ Treaty
between the
U.S. and
Spain that
ceded Florida
to the U.S.