Mexican-American War

New Mexico and upper California, changed hands when Mexico and the United States last fought. Mexico also had to recognize Texas as independent.

Most of them were assimilated into the society; nowadays between 60% and 80% of the population is considered mestizo, or the result of interracial marriages between Native Americans and Spanish conquistadors.

The fraction that was unassimilated, consisted mainly of semi-nomadic groups that received the same treatment of their counterparts in the United States: often sacked from their lands, fleeing to increasingly inhospitable lands, such as the Sonoran and Chihuahuan deserts to the north, or the Lacandon Jungle to the south.

The US took Mexico's land after the Mexican-American war. This was triggered by the fact that Wilmot's proposal did not pass the Congress.

The Missouri Compromise allowed Missouri to be entered as a slave state. It also made it possible to create a clear line as to how the North and South states could be divided. The admittance of the state of California was the point at which the Missouri Compromise could not longer be utilized for this purpose.

The Old Spanish Trail ran through lands mostly claimed by Mexico from the 16th to 19th centuries. It began at Santa Fe (now New Mexico) and ended at Los Angeles. It was a path for Spanish explorers and traders beginning in the mid- 1500s, and reaching its widest use during the last years of greater Mexico, from about 1830 to 1848. It was still in use even after the majority of the territory was ceded to the US in 1848, following the Mexican American War.

The name was given to it by John C. Fremont after he and Kit Carson traveled the trail around 1844. It is a rugged, mountainous route through deserts and

areas of severe winter storms. From Santa Fe, it runs northwest to central Utah (near present-day Green River, Utah) then slants southwest to Los Angeles through extreme southern Nevada.

The battle of Saratoga gave the Patriots foreign help.

The treaty gave too much land to the Lone Star Republic

Borders and Bargains. The US had failed in its diplomatic efforts to obtain the purchase of the Mexican States of Alta California and Nuevo Mexico and Mexico had informed the US that annexing Tejas would be considered an Act of War.

The US annexed Texas despite this threat, but Mexico failed to declare war and instead only broke off diplomatic relations with the United States.

Santa Anna was the leader of Mexico during the Texas Revolution and the Mexican-American War. When Texas wished independence from Mexico, Santa Anna mobilized troops. Most famous of the battles in the Texas Revolution was the Alamo, where Santa Anna killed everyone on the opposing side. He was, however, defeated in the end and Texas gained independence. When Texas was annexed to the United States, however, Santa Anna was mad again, and attacked when President Polk walked American troops into disputed territories. Led primarily by General Winfield Scott, the Americans thrashed the Mexicans and Santa Anna was wrenched from power.

Zachary Taylor used General Winfield Scott as the leader of the army.

The Mexican refusal to negotiate the sale of Alta California and Nuevo Mexico, the annexation of Texas by the United States and the border clash called the Thornton Affair.

Manpower even when Scott's force was halved by Yellow Fever were more than adequate. Gunpowder quality was a major difference and US troops had a better musket then the Mexican Brown Bess. The tactics of the Flying Artillery were new to warfare and made a major difference on the battlefield.

Naval superiority existed by a wide margin and Regular Army units were well trained and disciplined, however many State Volunteer Units were little more then rabble.

billy

Americans believed that the Mexicans started the War because they "Shed American blood, on American Soil"- President James Polk....but really American troops crossed the border were on Mexico's territory.

i don't know, so either check your social studies book or an encyclopeida

Mexico was seeking independence from Spain.

Americans were interested in the New Mexico Territory as they perceived them to be rich in minerals and fertile lands. Americans also wanted to expand their railway network and possibly increase slave states.

You mean before the Mexican-American War? That was the Nueces Strip.

I believe that is a pacifist. The person would be called a Conscientious Objector.

The Wilmot Proviso, named for Congressman David Wilmot of Pennsylvania, passed the House twice, but failed in the Senate. It also failed in the effort to be included in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

The Mexican War was 1846-48. Only one President, Polk, served during that time.

It had new borders to the south, west and north.

..banned slavery in all the new territories acquired from Mexico.