Chapter 12
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1. Word Cloud https://drive.google.com/a/farmington.k12.mi.us/file/d/0BzkPVwK-yXY8QXVCcVJXOXBLMjg/view?usp=sharing
2. Political cartoon http://www.texasescapes.com/Cartoons/20110404-Native-Born-Signers-1836-Declaration-Independence.jpg
3. Animoto https://animoto.com/play/de45VTqH1PedZ1z61iIyUQ
4. California Gold Rush
5. Video
6. Map
7. The Oregon Trail
8. Texas Independence
9. Manisfest Destiny
10. James K. Polk
11. ames Polk took office on March 4, 1845—and, at 49 years of age, he became the youngest president in American history.
12. In the presidential election of 1844, Polk was the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination for the vice presidency.
13. Important to the mexican american war
14. Pineville, North Carolina
15. 1795-1849
16. The treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends the mexican-american war.
17. On April 25, 1846, Mexican cavalry attacked a group of U.S. soldiers
18. Gold was discovered in California just days before Mexico ceded the land to the United States in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
19. Mexico had lost about one-third of its territory, including nearly all of present-day California, Utah, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico.
20. President James K. Polk, believed the United States had a “manifest destiny” to spread across the continent to the Pacific Ocean.
21. the war started in 1846, and ended in 1848.
22. The Mexican American War:
