Polk and the Mexican war 1846-1848 and other

Mexican war

American blood on American soil??

Zachary Taylor

won North Mexico

Winfield Scott

won Mexico City

Nicholas Trist

the negotiator of the treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo

The treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

1. negotiated by Trist

2. America got all the land from New Mexico to California

3. We paid Mexico $15 million

Abolitionism

to get rid of slavery

William Lloyd Garrison

well know abolitionist

Gag rule

Abolished talking about slavery in government issues

Gadsden purchase

Mexico sold Arizona land to us