The Lone Star Republic

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The Lone Star Republic The Mexican War

• I. Why should America expand?
• I. President James Polk
• a. Hungry for land
• b. Create new markets
• c. Manifest Destiny
• d. Depression of 1837
• e. Spread Democracy

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II. Expansion to Texas
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• 1. Stephen Austin
• a. American Rancher
• b. Brought Americans
• into Mexican Texas
• 2. Santa Anna
• a. Mexican Dictator
• b. Offended by American intrusion
• c. Launched surprise attack
• -Alamo
• -187 Americans died
• d. Americans fight back
• -Remember the Alamo
• -Sam Houston captured Santa Anna
• -Anna forced to recognize
• independent Nation of Texas
• -Lone Star Republic 1836

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II. Expansion to Texas continued

• 3. The Lone Star Republic
• a. Independent country 1836-1844
• b. President Tyler recognized Independent
  Texas
• -Mexico offended
• -Cause of Mexican American War

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III. War with Mexico

• 1. Border dispute
• a. America Rio Grande River
• b. Mexico Nueces River
• 2. Polks Solution
• a. Send U.S. Troops south
• of Nueces River
• b. Mexican Troops open fire
• c. American Army won

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III. War with Mexico continued

• 3. Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo 1848
• a. Mexico recognized Rio Grande
• as U.S. Mexican border
• b. U.S. paid Mexico 15 million
• c. Mexican Cession
• -Mexico ceded land to U.S.
• -New Mexico
• -Nevada
• -Arizona
• -California
• 4. Gadsden Purchase - 1853
• a. Gold discovered in California
• b. U.S. wanted flat region for
• easy migration
• c. Gadsden Purchase 10 million