1. Mexican War Standards 8.61 & 8.62
We fight Santa Anna AGAIN

2. Election of 1844 Polk is considered a “dark horse” candidate.
What is that???
a little-known person that is suddenly in the spotlight.

3. Election of 1844 Only president to be the Speaker of the House
Nicknamed Young Hickory

4. Establish border for Oregon
Election of 1844
James K. Polk (D-TN) wins and claims he only wants to serve one term.
Polk Wish List:
Establish border for Oregon
Expand the nation
add TX as a state

5. Time Out
Song
“James K. Polk”
They Might Me Giants

8. Wanted border at 54-40 line Border set @ the 49th parallel

9. War Declared!!!!!
Americans who wanted war with Mexico claimed that Mexico had shed American blood on American soil.
Congress declared war on Mexico.

10. Abraham Lincoln…a Whig

11. Polk’s 3-Point Plan to Beat Mexico
Drive Mexican troops out of the disputed territory in Texas north of the Nueces River and secure the Texas border
Seize New Mexico and California
Capture Mexico’s capital, Mexico City

13. General Zachary Taylor accomplished the first goal by the first part of 1847.

14. Americans captured Santa Fe, the capital of New Mexico, without a fight in 1846.

15. Bear Flag Republic
Group of Californians who want to break away from Mexico and called themselves the Bear Flag Republic after the illustration of a bear on its flag.

16. Original flag
Current flag

17. California
In 1846 Americans captured the ports of Monterey and San Francisco.
By 1847, California was under the control of the United States.

18. General Zachary Taylor at Palo Alto
“Old Rough and Ready”

19. Gen. Winfield Scott Takes Mexico City in September 1847

20. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Mexico gave up claims to Texas above the Rio Grande River.
Mexico agrees to sell the U. S. California and New Mexico for $15 million-it’s called the Mexican Cession

21. Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, 1848
Nicholas Trist American Negotiator

23. Wilmot Proviso-1846
ban slavery in any territory acquired from the Mexican Cession.
Passes in the House, killed in the Senate

24. Wilmot Proviso-1846
The conflict over the proviso was one of the major events leading to the American Civil War.

25. Gadsden Purchase
In 1853 the United States paid Mexico an additional $10 million for a strip of land along the southern edge of present- day Arizona and New Mexico
Was to be used for the railroad

26. Gadsden Purchase
With the Gadsden Purchase, the adjoining 48 states of the mainland reached its present size.