AMH 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: California Republic, Stephen Kearney, California Gold Rush
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Polk"s war : may 12: we declare war because we were attacked (in defense, mexico attacked us first, political party that hated the war: whigs. The whigs have to support the war, even though they hate it, if they don"t they sound like the federalist (when they hated the war of 1812 they were diminished) Mexico-general zachary taylor: first front, men follow him to do anything, huge success in mexico, wins with a small amount of troops (less than 5,000 taking on a mexican army of. 20,000: you win with taylor, won so much that polk said you have to stop. Takes the troops away from him: taylor is a whig. During the war, he is becoming a legend. Santa fe- colonel stephen kearney: second front, kearney- kansas. Takes santa fe trail to nm: the people of santa fe love that he declared the land as american.
