- On February 2, 848, Mexico's leaders signed the Treaty of ____________________ ceding more than 500,000 square miles of territory to the United States.
- For the far northern territories of California, New Mexico, and Texas, Mexico's independence from Spain in 1821 was followed by
- Mexico's far northern territories of California, New Mexico, and Texas enjoyed considerable political independence primarily because
- The first convention of Texas settlers, held in the town of SanFelipe in 1832, asked Mexico to re-open Texas to immigration and loosen the Texas to immigration and to loosen the taxes on
- When Santa Anna's forces arrived at San Antonio in February 1836, they found over 180 rebels holding an abandoned missions called
- Among other documents supporting his proposal for the annexation of Texas, President John Tyler gave Congress a letter by Secretary of State John C. Calhoun that contained
- In an effect to win popular support for a war with Mexico, President James K. Polk ordered troops led by General Zachary Taylor to cross the
- In the 1830s, inventions such as the mechanical reaper and a plow with a sharp-edge steel blades that cut gently through sod allowed settlers in the Midwest to
- James K. Polk won the Democratic nomination for president in 1844 with his promise to annex not only Texas but also the contested ____________________ in the Northwest.
- Anti slavery leaders in Congress opposed the annexation of Texas because a significant population of ____________________ had taken enslaved African Americans into its territory, and the state was certain to support the cause of slavery.
- Built in the Sacramento Valley on 50,000 acres granted by Juan Bautista Alvarado, the Mexican governor of California, Sutter's Fort was
- After Mexican independence, American influence in the borderlands
- In order to implement President Polk's three-pronged military strategy against Mexico, the United States needed to expand its
- In 1851 hoping to endure peace with the Native Americans on the Great Plains, the federal government negotiated the
- The Battle of ____________________ in April 1836 marked the end of Texas's War for Independence.
- In 1830 Mexico closed its borders to any further immigration by
- inventor who patented an iron-bladed plow in 1819
- With Oregon and the former Mexican territories under the U.S. flag, the dream of ____________________ Destiny was realized and the United States stretched from ocean to ocean.
- In what year did Texas join the Union?
- Midwestern agriculture received a boost from both the plow and the ____________________, patented by Cyrus McCormick in 1834.