EDEL 3374 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Manifest Destiny, Constitution Of Mexico
15 Aug 2019
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Measures north to south of the equator. Measures east to west of the prime meridian. To further understand this concept you can visit earth 3d map. com . 7 manifest destiny - the belief that americans were supposed to control all of the land from the atlantic to the pacific ocean from sea to shining sea . Texas revolution started at the battle of gonzales 1835. Mexico gave cheap land grants to have their land filled with people. The americans needed to learn spanish and change to catholic. 1835 antonio lopez repealed the 1824 mexican constitution. Removed the states right to self govern. 1840"s james k polk believed in manifest destiny (westward expansion) Polk offered 30 million dollars to mexico to buy land & mexico said no. After 2 years of fighting and mexico was defeated.
