Territory Why we wanted it
-Port city ____________ so -Owned by ___________& bought from
farmers could trade crops
Louisiana -Mississippi River one of
_________ largest; connects
______________________
the size of ______________________
US
Florida -___________ were running
away and _______ complaining
-__________ Indians were
raiding farms _____________;
wanted it to stop
Texas -First owned by__________; to
Include control the land the
information on government asked
Texas’ fight for __________________to settle
independence there.
from Mexico -Americans first settled to
under the ___________ it; cotton grew
column, “How well there and it was the
we got it.” south’s most valuable cash
crop; brought ____________
-_______________fought
against __________, won
independence and outlawed
_____________________
How US gained it
______________Bonaparte for $15 million
comes to_____ an acre. (1acre is ________sq.ft.)
-Jefferson stretched the____________________
to purchase; nothing in there gave directions on
who could buy foreign land
-In ______, President Monroe sent
________________ to FL to end Seminole
Indian raids;
-he brought 1700 ______ and invaded Florida
w/o authority
-Captured ____________________________
-Arrested/tried/executed 2 British subjects for
_______________________________________&
___________the Spanish _________________.
-Instead of calling __________out, -Monroe sent
Spain a message…_________properly or
___________________
-Spain gave FL to US in ________ & US agreed
to pay off $_________ in claims against Spain
by US citizens & honor their claim to
____________
-___________ Americans living in TX & was
tension b/t ___________ (Texans of Mexican
decent) and Americans.
-Americans didn’t want to listen to Mexico,
didn’t like documents in __________, and angry
that Mexico outlawed _____________
-Tejanos felt disrespected by Americans that
were there illegally (w/o approval from Mexican
gov’t)
-Texas fights for independence from
_________in Alamo; Mexico wins and
___________________remaining___________
-Texans fight w/ Sam Huston as leader and win
independence; are own
____________________________________(1836)
-Annexed by US; became ________ state in
___________
Oregon -____________; towering
forests; “pioneer’s paradise”
-disease unknown
-free _________ & many
animals
-word spread from reports of
_________________who first
went there
Mexican -President Polk wanted to
expand US in California and
Cession New Mexico by
________________________.
Includes:
Present-day In ___________, the CA
CA, NV, UT ____________________drew
& parts of many Americans west.
present-day
AZ, NM, CO,
and WY
Gadsden -US wanted it to build part of a
southern
Purchase ______________________
____________________
- President _______ wanted it for US; it
was his campaign slogan
- Made a treaty w/ _______________ to
split it at the 49th parallel.
- Gained Oregon Territory through
peaceful __________________
-Mexico considered US annexation of Texas an
______________________; fought back April
1846, killing _________Americans patrolling
along the _______ __________river; months
later US army marched through ____________
and took control__________________________.
-Americans in _______rebelled against
__________rule, jailed General Vallejo
(Mexican commander of Northern ____) &
raised a flag w/ a grizzly bear on it: Named
______ the ______ ______ Republic.
Army in NM meets up with ________ in CA &
within _________CA under American Control.
-Feb. 1847 Mexico and US fight Battle of
_______________________; America gets
control of Northern Mexico when General
_________ ___________ retreats south.
-For 6 months US troops fought @ ________
marched to _______________________
-Sept 1847 US captures ________________ &
wins War with Mexico
-Treaty of Guadilupe Hildago ______ends war:
- Mexico recognizes __________as part of
US
- __________________ river was border b/t
Mexico & US
- Mexico gets $_________ million for ½ of
Mexican land (_________________)
- US agrees to _________Mexican citizens
living in TX & areas of Mexican Cession
- US pays ______________ of claims US
citizens had against Mexico
-Mexico ___________ US the land for
$_____million