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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Map: Contested Terrain in the U.S. War with Mexico | |
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| Introduction: Race, Manifest Destiny, and the U.S. War with Mexico | |
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| Manifest Destiny | |
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| Neighboring Republics | |
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| Indians and Westward Expansion | |
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| Colonizing Texas | |
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| Texas's War for Independence | |
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| The Republic of Texas and U.S.-Mexico Diplomatic Relations | |
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| Toward War | |
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| Popular Opinion and the War in the United States | |
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| Waging the War | |
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| The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | |
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| Foreigners in Their Native Land | |
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| Manifest Destiny Exported | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Documents | |
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| John L. O'Sullivan, Annexation, July-August 1845 | |
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| U.S. Congress, Naturalization Act, March 26, 1790 | |
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| Agustin de Iturbide, Plan de Iguala, February 24, 1821 | |
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| Mexican Constitutional Congress, Mexican Constitution, 1824 | |
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| U.S. Congress, Indian Removal Act, May 28, 1830 | |
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| United States and Kingdom of Spain, Treaty of San Lorenzo, October 27, 1795 | |
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| United States and France, Louisiana Purchase Treaty, April 30, 1803 | |
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| Mexican Government, National Colonization Law, August 18, 1824 | |
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| Legislature of Coahuila-Texas, Coahuila-Texas State Colonization Law, March 24, 1825 | |
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| Manuel Mier y Teran, Letter to War Department, November 29, 1829 | |
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| Benjamin Lundy, Conditions for African Americans in Mexican Texas, 1833 | |
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| Texan Consultation of Representatives, Texas Declaration of Independence, March 2, 1836 | |
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| Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Message to the Inhabitants of Texas, March 7, 1836 | |
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| Eulalia Yorba, Another Story of the Alamo: The Battle Described by an Alleged Eyewitness, April 1896 | |
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| El Mosquito Mexicano, Article Criticizing U.S. Interests in Texas, June 14, 1836 | |
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| Daniel Webster, The Admission of Texas, December 22, 1845 | |
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| John Slidell, Diplomatic Dispatches to James Buchanan, January 1846 | |
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| General Pedro de Ampudia and General Zachary Taylor, Dispatches, April 12, 1846 | |
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| General Zachary Taylor, Dispatch to Adjutant General of the Army, April 26, 1846 | |
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| President James K. Polk, War Message to Congress, May 11, 1846 | |
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| Hugh White, Statement against the Two-Million-Dollar Bill, August 8, 1846 | |
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| David Wilmot, Wilmot Proviso, August 8, 1846 | |
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| Frederick Douglass, The War with Mexico, January 21, 1848 | |
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| New York Herald, Editorial in Support of the War with Mexico, February 20, 1847 | |
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| Walt Whitman, War with Mexico, May 11, 1846 | |
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| Theodore Parker, A Sermon of the Mexican War, June 1846 | |
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| Henry David Thoreau, On Civil Disobedience, 1848 | |
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| Women of Exeter, England, and Philadelphia, Women's Peace Petition, June 1846 | |
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| Susan Shelby Magoffin, Comments on Mexican Women, 1846 | |
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| American Officer, The Virtues of Mexican Women, September 1846 | |
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| Henry William Herbert, Pierre the Partisan: A Tale of the Mexican Marches, 1848 | |
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| Our Jonathan, Song of the Volunteers, 1846 | |
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| John Greenleaf Whittier, The Angels of Buena Vista, 1847 | |
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| James Russell Lowell, The Biglow Papers, 1846 | |
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| George Wilkins Kendall, The Mexican Joan of Arc, January 12, 1847 | |
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| Samuel E. Chamberlain, My Confession, 1855 | |
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| Ramon Alcaraz, Description of the Battle of Buena Vista, 1850 | |
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| Citizens of New Mexico, Report to the President of Mexico, September 26, 1846 | |
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| Ralph W. Kirkham, Description of the City of Puebla, June 28, 1847 | |
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| Gideon Johnson Pillow, Letter to Mary Hamilton Pillow, September 28, 1847 | |
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| American Star, Comment on Interactions between Mexicans and Americans, November 6, 1847 | |
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| Ramon Alcaraz, Observations on the American Occupation of Mexico City, 1850 | |
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| John C. Calhoun, Speech on the War with Mexico, January 4, 1848 | |
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| United States and Mexico, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, February 1848 | |
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| President Manuel de la Pena y Pena, An Address in Support of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, May 7, 1848 | |
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| Manuel Crescencio Rejon, Observations on the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, April 17, 1848 | |
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| Nathan Clifford, The Protocol of Queretaro, 1848 | |
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| U.S. Congress, California Land Act, March 3, 1851 | |
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| California Landowners, Petition to the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, February 11, 1859 | |
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| Juan N. Seguin, A Foreigner in My Native Land, 1858 | |
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| Francisco Ramirez, California Hospitality, September 18, 1855 | |
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| Los Angeles Star, An Interview with Noted Bandit Tiburcio Vasquez, May 16, 1874 | |
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| Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin, This Is Our Manifest Destiny, November 24, 1897 | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| A Chronology of Events Related to the U.S.-Mexico War (1789-1897) | |
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| Questions for Consideration | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Index | |