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Date Posted: 21:17:47 11/06/02 Wed
Author: Cassie
Subject: The Mexican War

Mexican War

*Falire of the Slidell Mission
-minister John slidell was to buy off the mexicans
-he was rejected by the mexicans
-mexicans crossed the Rio Grande and Amricans declared war!

*Oppositions to the War
-whigs thought the war was deliberate move by Polk
- many said the war was draining reasources
-americans won

*Taking MOre Land
-took Santa Fe and started to go after Cali
-Mexicans would not accept defeat
-Polk had an army put together to take the mexican capital and they did
-then the Mexican government negotiaten a peace treaty

*Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
-Mexico seded Cali and new Mexico and acknowledge Rio Grande as Texas's border
-pay mexicans $15 million
-POLk not happy with treay wanted all of mexico but agreed with it
-antislavery leaders said expansion extended slavery to new relems
-with the Trist(was in charge of proposing the treaty)treaty accepted by Congress
- with the treaty war was over

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