1. Manifest Destiny and a Growing Nation:
Texas, California and New Mexico

2. …or, How the U.S. added the greatest place on Earth…
Texas
Welcome to
…or, How the U.S. added the greatest place on Earth…

3. Texas joins the USA
The Independent nation of Texas is ________ (added) to the United States as a new state.
annexed

4. Why is all this land important?
Because Texas freely joined the United States and this new land needs to be _________ by the U.S. government.
The idea of “_______________” meaning that the United States is meant to gain control of all the land from “sea to shining sea.”
protected
Manifest Destiny

5. Problem Mexico never accepts the loss of ______.
They dispute the _______ between the U.S. and Mexico.
We say it is the __________, they say it is the Nueces.
Texas
border
Rio Grande

6. Offer
The U.S. offers $__________ to settle the Texas issue AND buy the California and New Mexico territory.
We are _____________.
25 Million
turned down

7. Solution
Mexico crosses the Rio Grande and ________ declares war on Mexico.
We win the war and sign the Treaty of Guadalupe _______.
congress
Hidalgo

8. Treaty Texas Mexico agrees to give up claims to ______
The U.S. gets the Mexican ________ (this means something that is given up.)
Cession
The US agrees to pay $15 million to Mexico and promises to _______ the Mexicans remaining in the defeated lands.
protect

9. Color Texas one color and the Mexican Cession another. Label both.