HIST 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Gadsden Purchase, United States Territorial Acquisitions, Mormonism And Polygamy

• School: Texas A&M University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 105
• Professor: William Francis Collopy

Document Summary

(cid:862)manifest destiny(cid:863) 18(cid:1008)(cid:1009)- fate that nation is going to expand from atlantic to pacific. Lecture 4: sense of superiority- when europeans come to u. s. Texas: calls for annexation- people think texas should be part of us, manifest destiny, expansion of slavery- needs to be part of us economically and politically; voice in. Washington d. c. politically and slavery allowed economically: 1845- admitted to union. Prelude to war- 1845: u. s. troops on mexican border, diplomacy: john l. slidell, sent to settle and resolve issues between us and mexico, negotiated: rio grande river for border, purchase new mexico, purchase of upper california, failure. War with mexico- 1846: president polk- said mexicans came to texas and killed some of the troops. Lincoln: (cid:862) how me the spot! (cid:863)- he did(cid:374)"t (cid:271)elie(cid:448)e (cid:449)hat polk said; spot (cid:449)here texa(cid:374)s (cid:449)ere killed (cid:862)halls of mo(cid:374)tezu(cid:373)a(cid:863)- comes out of the war between us and mexico, montezuma legendary hero of the aztecs.