MANIFEST DESTINY

The Annexation of Texas

Hmmmm... The Whigs hate me, but

I still want to be President

That Treaty with Britain

over the Maine border was popular.... I

wonder!

I know!!! TEXAS!

BUT…

Texas is HUGE! You could make 5 states out of that. What about

preventing the expansion of slavery??

BEFORE THIS THOUGH...

MEXICO AS A SPANISH COLONY

The Mexicans Response

THE ALAMO

TREATY FOR TEXAN

INDEPENDENCE

PAY OFF $2M MEXICAN DEBT

GIVE MEXICO $25M FOR

CALIFORNIA

TEXAS HAS THE RIO GRANDE

BORDER

American blood has been shed on American

soil!

I need $10m to fight the war.

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Key Individuals

ZACHARY TAYLOR

WINFIELD SCOTT

THE TREATY OF GUADELOUPE -HIDALGO

The End of the War

The Effects of the War

Effects

Increase in Popular Literature

Intensified Sectional Divisions

The Wilmot Proviso

Ralph Waldo

Emerson

‘The United States will conquer Mexico but it will be as the man who swallows the arsenic

which brings him down. Mexico will poison us.’