MANIFEST DESTINY

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MANIFEST DESTINY

• The Story Out West
• Polks Popularity
• Fifty-Four Forty or Fight

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Trouble With Mexico
Texas a Slave State
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New Mexico and California
John Fremont
Stephen Kearny
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Trouble With Mexico
Buena Vista 4,800 Taylors Force Vs. 15,000
Annas Force American Victory!
Zach Taylor
Winfield Scott
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New Mexico and California

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
• Rio Grande
• Gain of Land from Mexico
• U.S. Paid Mexico 15 million
• Protection of Mexicans in the territory
• Gadsden Purchase

Texas
Mexico
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