https://padlet.com/20tcreamer/4476is2352wo Made with the best of intentions en-us 2018-05-07 17:28:30 UTC 2018-05-07 17:50:17 UTC hello@padlet.com 20tcreamer https://padlet.com/20tcreamer/4476is2352wo/wish/258642815 Manifest destiny is used to describe America's God given right to take over all the land between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans regardless of who might be living there.]]> 2018-05-07 17:38:39 UTC https://padlet.com/20tcreamer/4476is2352wo/wish/258642815 20tcreamer https://padlet.com/20tcreamer/4476is2352wo/wish/258643471 By 1860 nearly 300,000 people had made trip that has since then been immortalized by the Oregon Trail, which by the way is inaccurate in the sense that a family of six, even a very hungry one, cannot eat a buffalo. But is extremely accurate in that a lot of people died of dysentery and cholera. ]]> 2018-05-07 17:40:02 UTC https://padlet.com/20tcreamer/4476is2352wo/wish/258643471 20tcreamer https://padlet.com/20tcreamer/4476is2352wo/wish/258643987 Oregon at the time was jointly controlled by the US and Britain. Northern Mexico at the time included what are now Texas, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, and California. ]]> 2018-05-07 17:40:59 UTC https://padlet.com/20tcreamer/4476is2352wo/wish/258643987 20tcreamer https://padlet.com/20tcreamer/4476is2352wo/wish/258644545  New Mexico and California were the only two, with like big settlements - about 30,000 Mexicans lived in New Mexico and about 3,500 in California, and in both places they were outnumbered by Native Americans]]> 2018-05-07 17:42:09 UTC https://padlet.com/20tcreamer/4476is2352wo/wish/258644545 20tcreamer https://padlet.com/20tcreamer/4476is2352wo/wish/258645254 March 13th, 1836, Santa Anna defeated the American defenders of the Alamo, killing 187 or 188]]> 2018-05-07 17:43:34 UTC https://padlet.com/20tcreamer/4476is2352wo/wish/258645254 20tcreamer https://padlet.com/20tcreamer/4476is2352wo/wish/258645626 In 1837 Texas' congress called for union, but all they heard back was "Not so fast, Texas."]]> 2018-05-07 17:44:24 UTC https://padlet.com/20tcreamer/4476is2352wo/wish/258645626 20tcreamer https://padlet.com/20tcreamer/4476is2352wo/wish/258646370 Texas wanted to be a slave state, and adding another slave state would disrupt the balance in the Senate, so Jackson and Van Buren did what good politicians always do: they ignored Texas.]]> 2018-05-07 17:46:02 UTC https://padlet.com/20tcreamer/4476is2352wo/wish/258646370 20tcreamer https://padlet.com/20tcreamer/4476is2352wo/wish/258646864 Congress annexed Texas in March of 1845, days before Polk took office. ]]> 2018-05-07 17:47:07 UTC https://padlet.com/20tcreamer/4476is2352wo/wish/258646864 20tcreamer https://padlet.com/20tcreamer/4476is2352wo/wish/258647232 the first war fought by American troops primarily on foreign soil, as most of the fighting was done in Mexico.]]> 2018-05-07 17:47:52 UTC https://padlet.com/20tcreamer/4476is2352wo/wish/258647232 20tcreamer https://padlet.com/20tcreamer/4476is2352wo/wish/258647602 Henry David Thoreau was in fact thrown in jail for refusing to pay taxes in protest of the war, and wrote On Civil Disobedience ]]> 2018-05-07 17:48:40 UTC https://padlet.com/20tcreamer/4476is2352wo/wish/258647602 20tcreamer https://padlet.com/20tcreamer/4476is2352wo/wish/258647866  Santa Anna's army was defeated in February 1847]]> 2018-05-07 17:49:13 UTC https://padlet.com/20tcreamer/4476is2352wo/wish/258647866 20tcreamer https://padlet.com/20tcreamer/4476is2352wo/wish/258648059 U.S. paid Mexico $15 million and agreed to a no-backsies deal in re: Texas, thereby freeing Mexico from the shackles of Amarillo]]> 2018-05-07 17:49:35 UTC https://padlet.com/20tcreamer/4476is2352wo/wish/258648059