1. TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. Texas and War with Mexico

2. 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 1821. Mexico needed settlers - invited Americans - 3 requirements:

3. TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. Stephen F. Austin – recruited 30,000 Americans 1835- outnumbered Tejanos 6 to 1- slaveholders and Protestants 1834- Antonio López de Santa Anna – Pres of Mexico Texas-more autonomy. Americans ignored the Mexican government.

4. TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. In 1835 -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.

5. TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. History Channel - Deconstruction of the Alamo

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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. -1836-1845 Annexed as state in 1845

9. TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. - Splits Oregon with Britain at 49 th parallel -Election of 1844 - James K. Polk wins - promised to get Texas, Oregon, and California and get out

10. 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 1845 -leads to war w/ Mexico.

11. 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

12. 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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14. 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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16. 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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