Important People/Places
What policy/idea did James K. Polk promote that changed the course of NM history?
Manifest Destiny
The idea of westward expansion; the belief that the U.S has the "god given right" to move west?
Manifest Destiny
In what year did Polk order American troops to the banks of the Rio Grande?
1846
How did New Mexicans feel about foreign rule?
Hated it
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Stephen W. Kearny
What was the name of the group of lawyers who took much of NM's existing land for themselves?
The Santa Fe Ring
What did Polk hope to gain from the war?
Land.
What was Manuel Chaves' lawyers argument to the courts?
That he was a Mexican citizen.
How much did the U.S pay for most of the American southwest?
$15 million
What was the name of the governor of New Mexico who initially wanted to defend NM from U.S expansion?
Manuel Armijo
What was the official name for the land that Mexico gave up?
The Mexican Cession
What were the causes of the Mexican-American war?
Mexico claimed their border was further north.
On what day was Governor Charles Bent's scalped head paraded through Taos?
January 19th, 1847
The name of the man who profited most from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the subsequent fight for land?
Thomas Catron
What was the name of the battle near Dona Ana, in which a Mexican army of 1,100 men took Colonel Alexander W. Doniphan by surprise?
El Brazito
What transaction finalized NM's southern border?
The Gadsden Purchase
When Manuel Armijo discovered Kearny was coming, what did he declare he would do?
Defend NM.
How many Taos rebels died in battle against the U.S?
150
Other than acquiring land, what was one of the main goals of the Gadsden purchase?
Flat lands to build railroad tracks on.
What was the name of the man who narrowly escaped execution due to his plans of revolt?
Manuel Chaves
What type of school is "church-sponsored?"
Parochial Schools
After Kearny stated that "not a pepper, not an onion, shall be taken by my troops without pay", what did he do?
He took over Santa Fe.
In the summer of what year did the revolts against Anglo-Americans end?
1847
What caused NM to lose land to the north in 1861?
The creation of the Colorado Territory