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Manifest Destiny and a Growing Nation:

Manifest Destiny and a Growing Nation:. Texas, California and New Mexico. Welcome to. Texas. …or, How the U.S. added the greatest place on Earth…. Texas joins the USA. The Independent nation of Texas is ________ (added) to the United States as a new state. annexed.

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Manifest Destiny and a Growing Nation:

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  1. Manifest Destiny and a Growing Nation: Texas, California and New Mexico

  2. Welcome to Texas …or, How the U.S. added the greatest place on Earth…

  3. Texas joins the USA • The Independent nation of Texas is ________ (added) to the United States as a new state. annexed

  4. Why is all this land important? • Because Texas freely joined the United States and this new land needs to be _________ by the U.S. government. • The idea of “_______________” meaning that the United States is meant to gain control of all the land from “sea to shining sea.” protected Manifest Destiny

  5. Problem • Mexico never accepts the loss of ______. • They dispute the _______ between the U.S. and Mexico. • We say it is the __________, they say it is the Nueces. Texas border Rio Grande

  6. Offer • The U.S. offers $__________ to settle the Texas issue AND buy the California and New Mexico territory. • We are _____________. 25 Million turned down

  7. Solution • Mexico crosses the Rio Grande and ________ declares war on Mexico. • We win the war and sign the Treaty of Guadalupe _______. congress Hidalgo

  8. Treaty Texas • Mexico agrees to give up claims to ______ • The U.S. gets the Mexican ________ (this means something that is given up.) • The US agrees to pay $15 million to Mexico and promises to _______ the Mexicans remaining in the defeated lands. Cession protect

  9. Color Texas one color and the Mexican Cession another. Label both.

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