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Mexican War

By athern.e

  • Missouri Compromise

    Evenly divided free states and slave states
  • Period: to

    Mexican War

  • Nothern province

    Texas became the Northern most province in the country of mexico

  • Government aboishes slavery

    Mexican government abolished slavery but it was hard to enforce.

  • Immigration

    Mexican government prohibited further immigration from the united states

  • Settlers rebelled

  • Population

    Anglo population had swelled to 30,000 plus over two thousand slaves whereas the mexican government population was only five thousand.

  • Santa Anna

    Santa Anna was captured at the battle of San Jacito and texas was granted their independence

  • John Tyler

    pushed through congress a resoution, annexing texas in the final three days of his presidency

  • disputed territory

    president polk stationed general zachary taylor in the disputed terriory along the rio grande with an army of 4000 troops

  • crossing the rio grande

    the mexican amry crossed the rio grande and killed or wounded 16 of his men

  • communication

    slidell returned to washington and informed polk that he was rebuffed

  • american blood

    polk submitted his war message claiming "american blood was shed on american soil"