Was the United States Justified in Going to War with Mexico?
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Monday, March 19, 2012
US History:
Objectives: Students will start to investigate why the US went to war with Mexico
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Discuss weekly schedule
Individually‐ work on War with Mexico map WS
Partners‐ discuss WS
As a class discuss map WS
Define vocabulary from Background Essay WS and discuss strategies to figure out the definitions
Read Background Essay WS as a class
Homework: Complete Background Essay WS
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Catholic
A person who practices Catholicism
Christian Pro Pope
Protestant
A person who practices a Protestant religion
Christian Anti Pope
Annexation
to add to
Manifest Destiny
US should be all the land from the Atlantic to the Pacific
Sea to shining sea
God given right
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1821­ Mexican independence
1836­ Texas annexation by US
1846­ Mexican War
1848­ Mexican Cession
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