TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. Texas and War with Mexico
TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. Accept Mexican citizenship Convert to Catholicism Follow Mexican Constitution – NO SLAVERY American expansionists – eyes on Texas. - 4,000 Hispanic Tejanos lived there in Mexico needed settlers - invited Americans - 3 requirements:
TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. Stephen F. Austin – recruited 30,000 Americans outnumbered Tejanos 6 to 1- slaveholders and Protestants Antonio López de Santa Anna – Pres of Mexico Texas-more autonomy. Americans ignored the Mexican government.
TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. In Texans declared independence for the Lone Star Republic. Santa Anna - led a siege of at the Alamo in San Antonio. 12 days- killed all 189 defenders Leader – William Travis Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett.
TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. History Channel - Deconstruction of the Alamo
TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. -created a set of martyrs. - “Remember the Alamo” - southerners volunteered for the Texans Santa Anna took Goliad - executed prisoners
TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. Sam Houston led a counterattack at the Battle of San Jacinto -Santa Anna defeated and taken prisoner. -Houston- president of the Lone Star Republic. - Later Governor and senator
TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. Santa Anna signed a treaty - Texas – everything north of Rio Grande - parts of New Mexico Texas - independent republic Annexed as state in 1845
TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. - Splits Oregon with Britain at 49 th parallel -Election of James K. Polk wins - promised to get Texas, Oregon, and California and get out
TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. Polk claimed all land as far as the Rio Grande General Zachary Taylor - sent to occupy these border lands. Mexico objected to the granting of statehood to Texas and saw statehood as an invasion of Mexican territory. US annexed Texas in leads to war w/ Mexico.
TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. Mexican War - Whigs and Northerners were critical of the war - Henry David Thoreau – Civil Disobedience - A. Lincoln and “spot resolutions” - real goal was to acquire more slave territory - Southern Democrats favored war – cotton - most Amer. supported war - 50,000 Amer. enlisted
TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. U.S. advantages 1.greater wealth 2.better-equipped military. General Winfield Scott -leading general -battles 1. Veracruz 2. Mexico City The United States easily defeated Mexico. After capturing the port of Veracruz, U.S. forces marched 200 miles to attack Mexico City.
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End of War Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (Feb. ’48) - ended Mex. War -Mexican Cession – Mex. surrendered a vast terr. To the US - Cali - US paid $15 mill to Mex. - US- full citizenship to Mex. that lived in Mex. Cession - Gadsden Purchase – acquired parts of Arizona and New Mexico - $10 million - Wilmot Proviso – failed bill to abolish slavery in land acquired from Mex.
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Effects of Mexican War -1 st military success – West Point -Gold Rush – California – ‘49ers -Chinese Immigration -Slavery Issue explodes -Slave states or free states???
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