The Mexican War and the Compromise of 1850 for students of United States History

1. USHC 2.2
Explain how the Monroe Doctrine
and the concept of Manifest
Destiny affected the United States’ Color Palette by: despise
relationships with foreign powers,
including the role of the United
States in the Texan Revolution and
the Mexican War.

2. Manifest Destiny
John Gast, American Progress, 1872

3. WAR!!!

5. Occupation of Mexico City
WIN
Painting by Carl Nebel

6. The “Bear Flag” Republic June 14-July 9, 1846

7. Mexican Cession 1848
Treaty of
Guadalupe
Hidalgo

8. Gadsden Purchase 1853
Treaty of
Guadalupe
Hidalgo

9. A Continuing Controversy...
A short video on this subject…

11. Now What???

12. David Wilmot
(D – PA)

14. Zachary Taylor
(W-LA)
Twelfth President of the U.S.
1849-1850
“Old Rough and Ready”
Mexican War Hero
Died in Office
Last Southerner elected
president until Woodrow
Wilson in 1912
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/zt12.html

16. Millard Fillmore
(W-NY)
Thirteenth President of the U.S.
1850-1853
Signed the
Compromise of 1850
Last Whig President
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/mf13.htm

17. For the North:
1.
For the South:
2. STRONGER Fugitive Slave Law
The New Mexico Territory:
3. Popular Sovereignty in Mexican Cession
4. Federal assumption of Texas debt /
Texas cedes western land to NM Territory
Slavery in Washington, DC:
5. Abolish Slave Trade in Washington, D.C.

20. Sen. Stephen A. Douglas (D-IL)
Designed the Compromise
although Clay took credit
Big Bill
Separate Bills
Each with different majorities to pass
Lincoln-Douglas Debate
Memorial

21. 1850 1860