Assignment 2: News from the Battlefront

Assignment 2: News from the Battlefront

Assingment 2: New from the Battlefront

Student Submission

Conduct reseach on the U.S. and Mexican War with a focus on key persons and key events. Create a presenation using PowerPoint or other presentation software showing your research. 50 points. Due March 9.

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WAR WITH MEXICO!

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The People of Texas and California

• Mexico independent from Spain, 1821

• California becomes a Mexican state

• Mexicans bought large areas of land for farming and rasing cattle

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​Ranchos

• Mexicans who claimed Texas as home

• ​Mexican government offered land to Americans to increase settlement

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​Tejanos

Resources!

• mild climate for farming

• seaports could trade with East Asia

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​Resources- California

• area suttable for growing cotton

• southerners wanted Texas as a slave state

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Resources- Texas

The History!

• Texas and Mexico fought in 1830s

• Andrew Jackson refused to make Texas a state

• 1836, the Lone Star Republic created

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​Texas become independent

• 1840, many Americans populate California

• American general John C. Fremont leads revolt against Mexico

• 1846 California independent

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​Bear Flag Republic

Politics and Presidents!

• supported Manifest Destiny

• wanted California and New Mexico territories

• these areas controled by Mexico

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James K. Polk

• ​wanted to avoid war with Mexico

• Did not favor annexation of Texas

​Martin Van Buren

War With Mexico!

​1846-1848

Assingment 2: New from the Battlefront

Student Submission

Conduct reseach on the U.S. and Mexican War with a focus on key persons and key events. Create a presenation using PowerPoint or other presentation software showing your research. 50 points. Due March 9.

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War With Mexico!

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