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Digital History

Digital History: War With Mexico [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the reasons President James Polk presented to Congress as justification for a declaration of war against Mexico. Find Polk's war message and the rebuttal by Congressman Davis.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: The Mexican War, 1846 1848

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of Mexico and southern United States showing the campaigns and battle sites of the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). The map shows the routes of Taylor, Wool, Kearny, Doniphan, and Scott, the pre-war boundaries of the United States...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: The Mexican War, 1846 1848

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of central Mexico and southern United States showing the important cities and battle sites of the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). The map shows the rivers of the contested boundaries that led to the war, the Rio Grande del Norte...
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Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn interesting facts about the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended the American Mexican War (1846-1848).
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Digital History

Digital History: War Fever and Antiwar Protests

For Students 9th - 10th
What started out as a prowar inclination of American citizens at the beginning of the Mexican War soon deteriorated. Read about the opposition of politicians, clergymen, and intellectuals to the reasoning for the war, and later for the...
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Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: "American Blood on American Soil"

For Students 5th - 8th
President James Polk's desire was for the United States to stretch from sea to shining sea. See what happened when his overatures to Mexico to buy the land north of the Rio Grande River were spurned. Take a brief vote to see if Polk was...
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Etc: The Mexican War the Golden Gate , 1846 1848

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of the Golden Gate and San Francisco Bay area showing sites during the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), including San Francisco (Yerba Buena at the time), San Leandro, San Rafael, San Mateo, San Jose, and the Sacramento River.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: The Mexican War, 1803 1848

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of northern and central Mexico and southern United states showing the area of conflict during the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). The map shows the Mexican boundary (under Spain) established by the Louisiana Purchase (1803)...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: War With Mexico, 1846 1848

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of Mexico and southern United States showing the campaigns and battle sites of the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). The map shows the territory acquired from Mexico after the war, and the routes of Taylor, Wool, Kearny, Doniphan,...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: War With Mexico, 1846 1848

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of Mexico and southern United States showing the campaigns and battle sites of the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). The map shows the routes of Taylor, Wool, Kearny, Doniphan, and Scott, the pre-war boundaries of the United States...
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Son of the South

Son of the South: The History of Texas: Battle of Medina

For Students 9th - 10th
Written in the style of a narrative of events, read the stories surrounding the Battle of Medina in the Mexican War for Independence from Spain.
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Etc: The Mexican War Gen. Taylor's Operations in Northern Mexico, 1846 1848

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of the area of the campaign of General Taylor during the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), showing the sites of Palo Alto, Resaca de la Palma, Fort Brown, Matamoras, Monterey, Saltillo, and Buena Vista.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Northeast Mexico, 1846 1848

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of eastern Mexico along the Gulf showing important battle sites during the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), including Matamoros, Monterey, and Buena Vista during the Taylor campaign, and Vera Cruz and Mexico City during the Scott...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: War With Mexico, 1846 1848

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of Texas, New Mexico, and northern Mexico showing the principal campaigns and battle sites of the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848.
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Texas State Historical Association

Texas State Historical Association: Battle of Medina

For Students 9th - 10th
A concise synopsis of the Battle of Medina, a part of the Mexican War of Independence against Spanish authority in Mexico.
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Texas A&M University

Sons of De Witt Colony Texas: Gutierrez De Lara: In Nuevo Santander

For Students 9th - 10th
Jose Gutierrez de Lara, the first governor of Mexican Texas, was determined to free Mexico from Spain. Read about the early Texas settlement of Nuevo Santander, and how it was settled by Spanish American colonists.
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Etc: Maps Etc: General Scott's Campaign in Mexico, 1847

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of the 1847 campaign of General Scott from Veracruz to the City of Mexico during the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). The map shows the battle site of the Castle of San Juan Ulloa, Cerro Gordo, Molino Del Rey, Chapultepec, Casa...
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Etc: Maps Etc: The United States, September, 1850

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of the United States at the time of the passing of the Compromise of 1850 (September, 1850). This compromise was a series of bills attempting to resolve territorial and slavery issues raised by the Missouri Compromise (1820) and...
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Etc: Maps Etc: The Slavery Prohibition Compromise of 1850, 1850

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of California, the Utah Territory, and the New Mexico Territory in 1850 showing the effect of the Compromise of 1850, a series of bills intending to settle the issue of slavery and abolition raised in the territories after the...
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Etc: Mountain Passes & Overland Routes in the West, 1841 1850

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of the Pacific region of the United States west of the Rocky Mountains in 1841-1850. The map shows the Old Spanish Trail from Los Angeles to Santa Fe, the Pioneer Route from the Platte River to San Francisco, the routes of Fremont...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Louisiana: Fort Jesup

For Students 9th - 10th
Fort Jesup was built in 1822 to help protect the western border between American and Spanish territories. Under the command of future U.S. President Zachary Taylor, soldiers at the fort monitored Texas as it passed from Spanish and...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in California: Sonoma Plaza

For Students 9th - 10th
The largest plaza in California, this was the location of the Bear Flag Revolt in 1846 which led to the Mexican-American War.
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Etc: Territorial Growth of the United States, 1783 1900

For Students 9th - 10th
A map from 1911 of the United States showing the territorial acquisitions from the original states and territory established in 1783 to the Tripartite Convention of 1899 in which Germany and the United States divided the Samoan...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: George B. Mc Clellan

For Students 9th - 10th
George Brinton McClellan was born at Philadelphia, December 3, 1826. He was for two years a student in the University of Virginia, but in 1842 he became a cadet at West Point, where he was the youngest in his class. He made his mark,...