https://padlet.com/424393/cq76xv3p1vx9 en-us 2017-03-20 15:07:12 UTC 2024-04-21 06:59:41 UTC hello@padlet.com 424393 https://padlet.com/424393/cq76xv3p1vx9/wish/161213784 where was the border for mexico and america?]]> 2017-03-20 15:19:53 UTC https://padlet.com/424393/cq76xv3p1vx9/wish/161213784 424393 https://padlet.com/424393/cq76xv3p1vx9/wish/161539225 2017-03-21 15:18:22 UTC https://padlet.com/424393/cq76xv3p1vx9/wish/161539225 424393 https://padlet.com/424393/cq76xv3p1vx9/wish/161540861 2017-03-21 15:21:57 UTC https://padlet.com/424393/cq76xv3p1vx9/wish/161540861 424393 https://padlet.com/424393/cq76xv3p1vx9/wish/161541351 Mexico and  the U.S had different thoughts on where the border was in Texas so the us sent troops into where the Mexicans thought the border was and some of the troops died. The president used this to start a war with mexico. They went to war because mexico wanted to defend it's claim. When the united states got there they worked something out and paid for new mexico and California but the battle wasn't over yet a general got troops into new mexico and they fought but america won]]> 2017-03-21 15:23:06 UTC https://padlet.com/424393/cq76xv3p1vx9/wish/161541351 424393 https://padlet.com/424393/cq76xv3p1vx9/wish/161546646 When mexico gave up Texas they made a treaty which also gave up present day  California, Nevada, Utah, most of Arizona, and
parts of New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming.]]> 2017-03-21 15:35:19 UTC https://padlet.com/424393/cq76xv3p1vx9/wish/161546646 424393 https://padlet.com/424393/cq76xv3p1vx9/wish/161547913 When america was finished with the treaty they bought a strip of territory which is now part of new mexico and Arizona so they could put rail roads down and in this land the president made a statue of George Washington because america stretched from sea to sea.]]> 2017-03-21 15:38:35 UTC https://padlet.com/424393/cq76xv3p1vx9/wish/161547913