Mexican American War by Thomas https://padlet.com/thomas_rawson/t4iinxcppn7g The Story of the Mexican American War en-us 2018-02-09 16:50:28 UTC 2018-02-26 17:06:50 UTC hello@padlet.com How the war started. thomas_rawson https://padlet.com/thomas_rawson/t4iinxcppn7g/wish/230104073 Hint: it has to do with Rivers.  it Began. On April 25, 1846, when the Mexican cavalry attacked a group of U.S. soldiers in the disputed zone under the command of General Zachary Taylor, killing about a dozen. They then laid siege to an American fort along the Rio Grande River.

]]> 2018-02-09 16:52:13 UTC https://padlet.com/thomas_rawson/t4iinxcppn7g/wish/230104073 Palo Alto thomas_rawson https://padlet.com/thomas_rawson/t4iinxcppn7g/wish/230104253 When:  May 8, 1846
Where: Brownsville Texas
Who won? Mexicans

]]> 2018-02-09 16:52:38 UTC https://padlet.com/thomas_rawson/t4iinxcppn7g/wish/230104253 Buena Vista thomas_rawson https://padlet.com/thomas_rawson/t4iinxcppn7g/wish/230104357 When: February 22 – February 23, 1847
Where: Mexico City
How did Taylor get lucky? he got lucky because the Mexicans snuck up on the Americans when they were not looking and took the land that the Americans claimed. 

]]> 2018-02-09 16:52:54 UTC https://padlet.com/thomas_rawson/t4iinxcppn7g/wish/230104357 Who was Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna? thomas_rawson https://padlet.com/thomas_rawson/t4iinxcppn7g/wish/230104639 he was a Mexican politician and  a general who fought to defend royalist with  New Spain and then for the Mexican independence. 

]]> 2018-02-09 16:53:27 UTC https://padlet.com/thomas_rawson/t4iinxcppn7g/wish/230104639 Who was Zachary Taylor? thomas_rawson https://padlet.com/thomas_rawson/t4iinxcppn7g/wish/230104711 he was the 12th President of the United States, serving from March 1849 until his death. Taylor previously was a career officer in the United States Army,  he rose to the rank of major general, and then became a national hero as a result of his victories in the Mexican–American War.

]]> 2018-02-09 16:53:35 UTC https://padlet.com/thomas_rawson/t4iinxcppn7g/wish/230104711 The Battle of Chapultapec thomas_rawson https://padlet.com/thomas_rawson/t4iinxcppn7g/wish/230104828 When: in September 1847
Where:  Mexico City 
Who won? America

]]> 2018-02-09 16:53:51 UTC https://padlet.com/thomas_rawson/t4iinxcppn7g/wish/230104828 The End of the War thomas_rawson https://padlet.com/thomas_rawson/t4iinxcppn7g/wish/230104995 Who won the war? America
What was the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo? officially titled the Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Limits and Settlement between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic, is the peace treaty signed on February 2, 1848, in the Villa de Guadalupe Hidalgo ]]> 2018-02-09 16:54:15 UTC https://padlet.com/thomas_rawson/t4iinxcppn7g/wish/230104995 What was the Gadsden Purchase? thomas_rawson https://padlet.com/thomas_rawson/t4iinxcppn7g/wish/230105467 it is a 29,670-square-mile (76,800 km2) region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States purchased via a treaty signed on December 30, 1853, by James Gadsden, U.S. ambassador to Mexico at that time. ]]> 2018-02-09 16:55:07 UTC https://padlet.com/thomas_rawson/t4iinxcppn7g/wish/230105467 What was the Bear Flag Revolt? thomas_rawson https://padlet.com/thomas_rawson/t4iinxcppn7g/wish/230105588 the americans declared that california to be an independent nation.]]> 2018-02-09 16:55:19 UTC https://padlet.com/thomas_rawson/t4iinxcppn7g/wish/230105588