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Objective: To examine the results of the Mexican War.
Causes of the Mexican War
1. United States annexed Texas
2. Border dispute between Mexico and US
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Both claimed land between the Rio Grande
and the Nueces River.
3. President Polk send Zach Taylor to set up
posts in the disputed area.
Mexican War
1. Taylor crossed the Rio Grande into Northern
Mexico.
1.
Forced Santa Anna to retreat at the Battle of Buena Vista
2. General Winfield Scott landed at Veracuz—
American took control of the city
3. General Kearny captured Sante Fe—won control
of southern CA.
1.
2.
Americans in northern CA revolted against Mexican rule
Declared their independence 6/14/1846
1.
3.
Bear Flag Republic
Joined forces with the US army and drive Mexican troops out of
Northern CA
1.
Final Battle: Chapultepec—fort just outside the capital
California
• Americans in California overthrew the Mexicans in 1846,
declaring the independent nation of the Bear Flag Republic.
• Soon afterwards, California joined the United States.
This flag, raised at Sonoma on June 14, 1846, was destroyed in
the 1906 Great Earthquake and Fire. The star imitated the lone
star of Texas. A grizzly bear represented the many bears seen in
the state. The Bear Flag was replaced by the American flag.
Effects
1. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
2. Mexico ceded New Mexico and California to the
United States
3. US paid Mexico $15 million
1. Gadsden Purchase-1853 the US paid Mexico $10
million for a strip of land in present day Arizona and
New Mexico.
1. Needed land to complete the transcontinental RR
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo – 1848 (Video)
Gadsden Purchase
The United States bought southern
NM and AZ for $10 million.
• Mexico recognized
the Texas-Mexico
border as the
Rio Grande.
• Mexico ceded the
Mexican Cession to
the United States.
• Today, the Mexican
Cession are the states
of CA, NV, UT, and
parts of AZ, NM, CO,
and WY.
• The United States
paid Mexico $15
million.