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Was the United States Justified in Going to War with Mexico?
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Monday, March 19, 2012US History:
Objectives: Students will start to investigate why the US went to war with Mexico
1. Discuss weekly schedule2. Individually‐ work on War with Mexico map WS3. Partners‐ discuss WS4. As a class discuss map WS5. Define vocabulary from Background Essay WS and discuss strategies to
figure out the definitions6. Read Background Essay WS as a class
Homework: • Complete Background Essay WS
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Catholic
A person who practices Catholicism
Christian
Pro Pope
Protestant
A person who practices a Protestant religion
Christian
Anti Pope
Annexation
to add to
Manifest Destiny
US should be all the land from the Atlantic to the Pacific
Sea to shining sea
God given right
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1821 Mexican independence
1836 Texas annexation by US
1846 Mexican War
1848 Mexican Cession
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