1845 - year Texas became a state, James Polk - president of the U.S. during the U.S.-Mexico War, Manifest Destiny - belief that the U.S. was supposed to control all of the land from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, Mexican Cession - land acquired by the U.S. as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, Nueces River - Mexico claimed this was the legal border between U.S. & Mexico, Rio Grande - U.S. claimed this was the legal border between U.S. and Mexico, Texas annexation - one of the major causes of the U.S.-Mexico War, Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo - officially ended the U.S.-Mexico War and established the Rio Grande as the border, U.S.-Mexican War - conflict between Mexico and the U.S. from 1846-1848, causes of U.S.-Mexican War - Texas statehood, Manifest Destiny, border dispute, effects of U.S.-Mexican War - border settled, Manifest destiny achieved by U.S., present-day states in Mexican Cession - New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, Nevada,

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