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Part One

Introduction: Race, Manifest Destiny, and the U.S. War with Mexico

Manifest Destiny

Neighboring Republics

Indians and Westward Expansion

Colonizing Texas

Texass War for Independence

The Republic of Texas and U.S.-Mexico Diplomatic Relations

Toward War

Popular Opinion and the War in the United States

Waging the War

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Foreigners in Their Native Land

Manifest Destiny Exported

Conclusion

Part Two

The Documents

John L. OSullivan / Annexation / July-August 1845

U.S. Congress / Naturalization Act / March 26, 1790

Agustin de Iturbide / Plan de Iguala / February 24, 1821

Mexican Constitutional Congress / Indian Removal Act / May 28, 1830

United States and Kingdom of Spain / Treaty of San Lorenzo / October 27, 1795

United States and France / Louisiana Purchase Treaty / April 30, 1803

Mexican Government / National Colonization Law / August 18, 1824

Legislature of Coahuila-Texas / Coahuila-Texas State Colonization Law / March 24, 1825

Manuel Mier y Teran / Letter to War Department / November 29, 1829

Benjamin Lundy / Conditions for African Americans in Mexican Texas / 1833

Texan Consultation of Representatives / Texas Declaration of Independence / March 2, 1836

Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna / Message to the Inhabitants of Texas / March 7, 1836

Eulalia Yorba / Another Story of the Alamo: The Battle Described by an Alleged Eyewitness / April 1896

El Mosquito Mexican o / Article Criticizing U.S. Interests in Texas / June 14, 1836

Daniel Webster / The Admission of Texas / December 22, 1845

John Slidell / Diplomatic Dispatches to James Buchanan / January 1846

General Pedro de Ampudia and General Zachary Taylor / Dispatches / April 12, 1846

General Zachary Taylor / Dispatch to Adjutant General of the Army / April 26, 1846

President James K. Polk / War Message to Congress / May 11, 1846

Hugh White / Statement against the Two-Million-Dollar Bill / August 8, 1846

David Wilmot / Wilmot Proviso / August 8, 1846

Frederick Douglass / The War With Mexico / January 21, 1848

New York Herald / Editorial in Support of the War with Mexico / February 20, 1847

Walt Whitman / War with Mexico / May 11, 1846

Theodore Parker / A Sermon of the Mexican War / June 1846

Henry David Thoreau / On Civil Disobedience / 1848

Women of the Exeter, England, and Philadelphia / Women's Peace Petition / June 1846

Susan Shelby Magoffin / Comments on Mexican Women / September 1846

Henry William Herbert / Pierre the Partisan: A Tale of the Mexican Marches / 1848

Our Jonathan / Song of the Volunteers / 1846

John Greenleaf Whittier / The Angels of Buena Vista / 1847

James Russell Lowell / The Bigelow Papers / 1846

George Wilkins Kendall / The Mexican Joan of Arc / January 12, 1847

Samuel E. Chamberlain / My Confession / 1855

Roman Alcaraz / Description of the Battle of Buena Vista / 1850

Citizens of new Mexico / Report to the President of Mexico / September 26, 1846

Ralph W. Kirkham / Description of the City of Puebla / June 28, 1847

Gideon Johnson Pillow / Letter to Mary Hamilton Pillow / September 28, 1847

American Star / Comment on Interactions between Mexicans and Americans / November 6, 1847

Ramon Alcatraz / Observations on the American Occupation of Mexico City / 1850

John C. Calhoun / Speech on the War with Mexico / January 4, 1848

United States and Mexico / Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo / February 1848

President Manuel de la Pena y Pena / An Address in Support of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo / May 7, 1848

Manuel Crecencio Rejon / Observations on the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo / April 17, 1848

Nathan Clifford / The Protocol of Queretaro / 1848

U.S. Congress / California Law Act / March 3, 1851

California Landowners / Petition to the Honorable Senate and House Representatives of the United States of America / February 11, 1859

Juan N. Seguin / A Foreigner in My Native Land / 1858

Francisco Ramirez / California Hospitality / September 18, 1855

Los Angeles Star / An Interview with Noted Bandit Tiburcio Vasquez

May 16, 1874

Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin / This is Our Manifest Destiny / November 24, 1897

Appendixes

A Chronology of Events Related to the U.S.-Mexico war (1789-1897)

Mexican War, 1846-1848 > Sources.