War
with Mexico, 1846 - 1848
James
Polk
To the pacific
General
Zachary Taylor
Rio Grande River
Nueces River
John
Slidell
Spot
Resolution
Abraham Lincoln
General
Winfield Scott
Nicholas
Trist
Bear
Flag Republic
Treaty
of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1848
75,000 Spanish-speaking people
150,000 Indians
529,000 square miles
Gadsden
Purchase
California
Gold Rush