1. Election of 1844 Whigs dumped Tyler & pick Clay Demos pick Polk
Liberty- Birney
Split the Whig votes
Texas becomes a state by a joint session resolutions making a majority rule to pass instead of 2/3rds

2. The
Mexican War
( )

3. The Slidell Mission: Nov., 1845
Sent to Mexico City with 30 million
Mexican recognition of the Rio Grande River as the TX-US border.
Cali & New Mexico
John Slidell

4. Congr. David Wilmot (D-PA)
Wilmot Proviso, 1846
neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory
does not pass in Congress
Congr. David Wilmot (D-PA)

5. The Mexican War ( )

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

7. The Bombardment of Vera Cruz

8. General Scott Enters Mexico City
“Old Fuss and Feathers”

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

10. Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, 1848
The Treaty was basically forced on Mexico!
Mexico gave up claims to Texas above the Rio Grande River.
Mexico gave the U. S. California and New Mexico.
U. S. gave Mexico $15,000,000 and agreed to pay the claims of American citizens against Mexico (over $3,500,000).

11. Results of the Mexican War?
The 17-month war cost $100,000,000 and 13,000+ American lives (mostly of disease).
explosive issue of SLAVERY to the center of national politics * Brought in 1 million sq. mi. of land (incl. TX)
Created two popular Whig generals who ran for President.
Manifest Destiny partially realized.

12. Unresolved Issues
&
New Opportunities

13. Free Soil Party Free Soil! Free Speech! Free Labor! Free Men!
Opposition to the extension of slavery in the new territories-threat to republican liberties & yeoman farming
“whitemanism”

14. The 1848 Presidential Election Results√

15. California Gold Rush, 1849
49er’s

16. Territorial Growth to 1853

17. Westward the Course of Empire Emmanuel Leutze, 1860

18. Expansionist Young America in the 1850s
America’s Attempted Raids into Latin America