John DiConsiglio - The Mexican-American War
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| 1821 | Mexico wins its independence from Spain after a 20-year struggle. Mexico takes controlof all former Spanish territories, including Texas, California, and most of whatis now the western United States. |
| 1836 | Mexicos new constitution outlaws slavery in all of its territories. U.S. settlersin Texas declare their independence. |
| 1836 February 23 | General Antonio Lpez de Santa Anna leads the Mexican army against a Texas rebellionat the Alamo. |
| March 6 | After a brutal 13-day siege, Santa Annas 3,000 soldiers win a hard-fought battle,killing 200 Texans. |
| April 21 | Texans, led by General Sam Houston, defeat Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto. |
| 1836 | Santa Anna is forced to sign a treaty granting Texas its independence. The Mexicangovernment does not recognize the treaty. |
| 1844 | In November, James K. Polk is elected the 11th president of the United States. Hepromises to annex Texas. |
| 1845 July | Newspaper publisher John OSullivan first uses the term Manifest Destiny to describethe U.S. belief that it has a God-given right to expand its territory. |
| October | Polk stations 3,000 troops along the Rio Grande. |
| November | Polk sends John Slidell to Mexico with orders to buy New Mexico and Texas. The fracturedMexican government refuses to meet with Slidell. |
| December 29 | Texas is annexed as the 28th U.S. state. |
| 1846 January 1 | Polk orders General Zachary Taylor to march to the Rio Grande and protect Texas fromany invasion by Mexico. |
| April 25 | The Thornton Affair occurs, in which a 2,000-strong Mexican cavalry crosses the RioGrande and surprises a 70-man U.S. patrol. Captain Seth Thornton and 16 of his menare killed. |
| May 8 | At the Battle of Palo Alto, 2,400 Americans defeat twice as many Mexicans to markthe beginning of the Mexican-American War. |
| May 11 | Declaring that Mexico shed American blood upon American soil, Polk asks Congressfor a declaration of war against Mexico. |
| May 13 | After debating just a few hours, Congress declares war against Mexico. |
| June 14 | In California, U.S. settlers led by Captain John C. Frmont proclaim their independencefrom Mexico and raise the Bear Flag. The new Republic of California is later annexedby the United States in August. |
| July 25 | Poet Henry David Thoreau is sent to jail for one night when he refuses to pay histaxes, as an antiwar protest. |
| August 8 | The Wilmot Proviso, which would have outlawed slavery in territories gained duringthe war, is defeated in the U.S. Congress. |
| August 15 | The United States annexes New Mexico, formerly a Mexican territory. |
| August 18 | After winning the Battle of Santa Fe, General Stephen Kearny occupies the city. |
| 1847 February 22 | In the Battle of Buena Vista, General Taylors army of 4,800 men defeats GeneralSanta Annas 15,000-man force. |
| March 929 | After a landmark naval landing, General Winfield Scotts forces attack Veracruz. |
| September 10 | Sixteen former U.S. soldiers from the Saint Patricks Battalionknown as San Patriciosareexecuted as traitors for deserting and joining the Mexican side. |
| September 12 | General Scott and his army occupy Chapultepec. During the battle, six young soldiers,ages 13 to 19, are killed while bravely defending the Mexican flag. They are knownas Los Nios Hroes and are still celebrated today. |
| September 14 | U.S. troops, led by General Scott, occupy Mexico City. |
| September 16 | Santa Anna resigns as Mexican president. |
| December 22 | Illinois congressman Abraham Lincoln makes a speech opposing the Mexican-AmericanWar. He demands that Polk Show me the spot! where Thorntons party was ambushed. |
| 1848 February 2 | The Mexican-American War ends with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Mexico loses500,000 square miles (1.3 million square kilometers) of its territory. The UnitedStates claims what is now California, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, most of Arizona andColorado, and parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Wyoming. |
| November | Zachary Taylor is elected the 12th president of the United States. He dies in officeafter just one year. |
| 1849 | On June 15, former President Polk dies of cholera, just two months after leavingoffice. |
A War of Contradictions (pages 45)
Robert W. Johannsen, Americas Forgotten War, The Wilson Quarterly 20 (Spring1996).
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Johannsen, Americas Forgotten War.
Thomas Christensen and Carol Christensen, The U.S.-Mexican War (San Francisco:Bay Books, 1998).
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Tensions Rise (pages 613)
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Timothy Foote, The Way We Wereand the Way We Wentin 1846: What with the MexicanWar, and a Million Square Miles of New Real Estate, Our Westward Destiny Became HighlyManifest, Smithsonian (April 1996).
Donald Fithian Stevens, Origins of Instability in Early Republican Mexico (Durham,NC: Duke University Press, 1991).
PBS, Two Nations Identities: Looking Forward and Looking Back.
Foote, The Way We Wereand the Way We Wentin 1846.
Ibid .
J. R. Edmondson, The Alamo StoryFrom History to Current Conflicts (Plano, TX:Republic of Texas Press, 2000).
Liz Sonneborn, The Mexican-American War: A Primary Source History of the Expansionof the Western Lands of the United States (New York: Rosen Publishing Group, 2005).
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Ibid .
Martha Manchaca, Recovering History, Constructing Race: The Indian, Black, andWhite Roots of Mexican Americans (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2001).
Ibid .
Frances Calderon de la Barca, Life in Mexico (1843; repr., Los Angeles: Universityof California Press, 1982).
Ibid .
Ibid .
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Calderon, Life in Mexico .
PBS, Mexico in the Shadow of Its Own History.
Morris Schaff, Etna and Kirkersville (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1905).
Foote, The Way We Wereand the Way We Wentin 1846.
Schaff, Etna and Kirkersville .
Ibid .
Schaff, Etna and Kirkersville .
Countdown to War (pages 1423)
Foote, The Way We Wereand the Way We Wentin 1846.
Ray Allen Billington and Martin Ridge, Westward Expansion: A History of the AmericanFrontier , 6th ed. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2001).
Ibid .
Pletcher, Manifest Destiny: An Ideal or a Justification?
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Billington and Ridge, Westward Expansion: A History of the American Frontier .
Foote, The Way We Wereand the Way We Wentin 1846.
McNeils Travels in 1849 to, through, and from the Gold Regions in California,in California As I Saw It: First-Person Narratives of Californias Early Years, 18491900 (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, General Collections and Rare Book and SpecialCollections Division, 1997).
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Foote, The Way We Wereand the Way We Wentin 1846.
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