The Mexican American War, 1846 – 1848

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Quick Facts

• 1846 = 325,000 Indians in the Southwest• 6 million people in Mexico• Cost of war = $98 million U.S.• $15 million for 500,000 square miles• 2,000-mile border

Mexico After Independence• Independence in

1821• 75 presidents in

first 55 years (1821 – 1876)

• Political disorder & physical decay

• Spaniards expelled from Mexico

• 15 – 30% of adult men unemployed

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Role of the Military

• Church controlled ½ of Mexico’s land

• Military dominated national politics

• Antonio Lòpez de Santa Anna, president 6 times

• Caudillo

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U.S. & Mexico• Southwest as periphery• Manifest Destiny• Missions

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Texas Conflict• Stephen Austin &

“Catholic” settlers, 1821• Mexico’s Emancipation

Proclamation, 1829

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Lone Star Republic• Sam Houston & The Alamo, 1836• April 1836, Battle of San Jacinto• Delayed Annexation

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President Polk

• Young Hickory• “Slaveholding

exterminator of Indians”

• “Mr. Polk’s War” tied to Manifest Destiny & civilizing impulse

How Did the War Begin?

• General Zachary Taylor

• Rio Grande vs. Nueces River

• 150 mile difference

Transformation of Military• 7,000 soldiers grew to

100,000 post-war• Public involvement• Zachary Taylor, Winfield

Scott, Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, PGT Beauregard

• Technological superiority

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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• $15 million • Rights of Mexicans in U.S. protected by law

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The Mexican American War, 1846 – 1848

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