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-Mexico hoped to attract settlers to farm northern frontier provinces
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Mexico outlawed slavery and required all immigrants to convert to Roman Catholicism
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General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna made himself dictator of Mexico and abolished the federal system.
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American settlers led by Sam Houston revolted and declared Texas an independent republic.
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Whig candidate John Tyler was elected president
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The disputed territory between Maine and British Canada was split between the two
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U.S. senate rejected Tyler's attempt to annex Texas. The treaty of annexation
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The democratic nomination for presidency was the proslavery, proannexation, John C. Calhoun.
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An electric telegraph demonstrated by creator Samuel F.B. Morse helped with industry growth
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President Polk sent John Slidell to try and sell Mexico and California territories to the U.S. and settle the Mexico-Texas border dispute.
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President Polk ordered the General Zachary Taylor led U.S. army to move toward the Rio Grande, but a Mexican army came and captured a U.S. patrol and 11 soldiers.
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John C. Fremont overthrew Mexican rule in northern California and proclaimed it an independent republic
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The senate passed the teaty to divide Oregon down the 49th parallel.
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David Wilmot proposed a bill to outlaw slavery in the new territories
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Americans won a major victory at Buena Vista after driving the Mexican army back to northern Mexican
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General Winfield Scott captured the Mexican city of Vera Cruz on orders by President Polk
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Negotiated by American diplomat Nicholas Trist it provided that Mexico would recognize the Rio Grande as the southern border of Texas and the U.S. would take control of former Mxican provinces and the U.S. would pay 15 million dollars
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Gold rush to California
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Ensured that neither Great Britain or the U.S. would try an take exclusive control of a Central American canal
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U.S. government granted 2.6 million acres of federal land to build the Illinois Central Railroad
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Elected President
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William Walker unsuccessfully tried to take Baja California from Spain
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Mexico agreed to sell thousands of acres of semidesert to the U.S. for 10 million dollars
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Perry convinced Japan to open two Japanese ports to U.S. vessels
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William Walker led a group of mostly southerners and took over Nicaragua
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The economic boom ended with a finacial drop
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William Walker was executed by Honduran authorities
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Secretary of State William Seward purchased Alaska
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Gave the U.S. a free hand to build a canal without British participation