5 Gadsden Purchase 1853

• A U.S. needed one more piece of land to complete the connection of the Railroad from Coast to Coast​
• ​B U.S. pays $15 million for 45,000 square miles
  
• C ​Bottoms of Arizona and New Mexico
  

4 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1848

• A Mexico loses all land claims in the North including Texas
• ​B Mexican Cession: California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, and parts of Colorado and Wyoming
  
• C ​U.S. Still pays Mexico $15 Million for the land​

• C U.S. then invades Mexico
• D Fight all the way to Mexico City​​
• ​E Mexican Army destroyed
  
• ​F Mexico City defended by old men and boys
  
• G U.S. captures and occupies Mexico City (Capital)
  
• H ​U.S. PWNS Mexico
  

3 Two Years of War

• A U.S. Troops dominate the American SW
• B Within a few months take land all the way to California​​

• D ​Mexico attacks those troops
  
• E 16 Americans killed
  
• F America is all WHAT THE HECK!!!
  
• G Declares war on Mexico

2 Starting the War

• A President Polk stations troops on the Rio Grande River to provoke Mexico
• B Mexico claims the border is North of that at the Nueces river
  
• C So according to Mexico those troops are in Mexico​

• D President Polk sends ambassador John Slidell
  
• E ​offer $30 million! for something that they didn't own (nice)
• F ​oh but also we want California and New Mexico for all that cash
  
• G ​Mexico says no, let's fight!
  

1 Annexation of Texas

• A 1845 Texas becomes a U.S. State
  
• ​B Mexico says it's theirs
  
• ​C They WILL fight over it
  

U.S. - Mexican War