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Mexican-American War

Mexican-American War. America’s answer to Manifest Destiny. Causes of the War. Manifest Destiny Annexation of Texas Boundary dispute U.S. Army provokes Mexican Army to attack along the Rio Grande. The Two Armies. Mexican Army Officers did not go to military school

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Mexican-American War

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  1. Mexican-American War America’s answer to Manifest Destiny

  2. Causes of the War • Manifest Destiny • Annexation of Texas • Boundary dispute • U.S. Army provokes Mexican Army to attack along the Rio Grande

  3. The Two Armies • Mexican Army • Officers did not go to military school • Old weapons, cannons and disorganization • Forced men to serve • American Army • College educated at West Point • Horse mounted cannons • Volunteer army

  4. Generals of the war • General Winfield Scott • U.S. General • Marches into Mexico City and eventually ends war • General Zachary Taylor • U.S. General • Veteran soldier and plantation owner, becomes next president • General Santa Anna • Mexican General • President of Mexico, defeated because of poor leadership

  5. Battles of the war • Palo Alto • May 8, 1846 • First battle – brutal and bloody • Buena Vista • February 22-23, 1847 • Heavily outnumbered Americans use cannons to defeat Mexicans • Mexico City • September 12-13, 1848 • Ends war because it is the Mexican capitol • Both sides lose thousands of men

  6. Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo • U.S. pays Mexico $15 million in damages and an additional $3 million to Mexican citizens • TX, CA, NV, NM, AZ & CO are ceded to the U.S. • Mexican citizens in the area become Americans overnight, about 100,000 of them.

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