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in the early 1840s President James K Polk promoted the idea of manifest destiny the belief that the United States should control Land from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean the final push to extend the United States between the two Coast began in the Mexican territory of Texas in 1821 Mexico won its independence from Spain and began inviting settlers to move to Texas ants from 1821 to 1835 both Mexicans known as tejanos an American settled there by 1824 Americans had grown to more than 18,000 the increasing number of American settlers and their use of enslaved people as laborers worry the Mexican Government the Mexican Government tried to steal the border and stop anymore American settlers from entering which caused American settlers living in Texas to revolt in 1835 many Texans decided to fight for independence in eighteen 6 General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna who was president of Mexico attacked the city of San Antonio American fighters and settler refuge in an old Spanish mission known as The Alamo two weeks later Mexican forces storms the Alamo and defeated the Americans later that same year a Texan army led by Sam Houston captured Santa Anna and the territory became the independent republic of Texas remained an independent republic for almost 10 years before the United States government decided to an exit and I text means to add or something in 1845 Texas became the 28th state to join the union much to the disapproval of Mexico fighting began Over Texas new border with Mexico which led to the Mexican-American war in 1846 that same here American settlers in California who were inspired by the events in Texas Rose up against Mexico in the Bear Flag Revolt they too wanted independence from Mexico that revolt went to the annexation of California by the United States 1848 the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the Mexican-American War and gave much of Mexico's Northern Territory to the United 5 years later in 1853 the United States purchased land from Mexico in the present-day Southwest this purchase called the Gadsden purchase settled the boundaries between it states in Mexico while the Mexican-American war was being fought the United States peacefully acquired land in the northwest the Oregon Treaty of 1846 settle the Border conflict with Great Britain and gave Oregon territory to the United States these events the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo the Gadsden purchase and the Oregon treaty president extreme manifest destiny the United States finally stretched from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean from sea to shining sea

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