Texas Santa Fe Expedition

Examples of Texas Santa Fe Expedition in the following topics:

• The Mexican Borderlands

  • The U.S. thus inherited Texas' border dispute with Mexico.
  • Texas claimed the eastern part of this new territory, comprising parts of present-day Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Texas, Wyoming, Utah, and Oklahoma.
  • Taylor moved into Texas, ignoring Mexican demands to withdraw.
  • The failed Texas Santa Fe Expedition of 1841 was its only attempt to take that territory.
  • Texas continued to claim New Mexico as far as the Rio Grande.

• Tyler and Texas

  • Tyler supporters with signs reading "Tyler and Texas!"
  • He called for Congress to annex Texas by joint resolution rather than by treaty.
  • Taylor moved into Texas, ignoring Mexican demands to withdraw.
  • The Republic of Texas never controlled what is now New Mexico, and the failed Texas Santa Fe Expedition of 1841 was its only attempt to take that territory.
  • The Texas/New Mexico boundary was not established until the Compromise of 1850.

• The American Indian Wars

  • Before the Civil War, the western United States had been penetrated by U.S. forces and settlers via the Santa Fe Trail and the Oregon Trail, and as a result of the Mormon emigration to Utah and the settlement of California and Oregon.
  • In the case of the Santa Fe Trail, this was due to the friendly relationship between the Bents of Bent's Fort and the Cheyenne and Arapaho, and in the case of the Oregon Trail, to the peace established by the Treaty of Fort Laramie.
  • At least 4,340 people were killed, including both settlers and Indians—more than twice as many as occurred in Texas, the second-highest-ranking state.
  • In 1874, the government dispatched the Custer Expedition to examine the Black Hills.
  • The Lakota were alarmed at his expedition.

• In the West: The Native Americans

  • In 1821, independent Mexico assumed control over Spain's northern possessions that stretched from Texas to California (including the lucrative Santa Fe trade routes that saw the transportation and exchange of manufactured goods, silver, furs, and mules and connected Mexico to California via the Old Spanish Trail).
  • To encourage permanent settlement, the Mexican government began to attract American settlers to Texas with generous terms.
  • Congress, however, initially refused to annex Texas, stalemated by contentious arguments over slavery and regional power.
  • Texas remained an independent country, led by Sam Houston, until it became the 28th state in 1845.
  • Beginning with the annexation of Texas, however, the Democratic expansionists began to gain the upper hand.

• The Fossil Record and the Evolution of the Modern Horse

  • Beagle survey expedition, Charles Darwin had remarkable success with fossil hunting in Patagonia.
  • In 1833 in Santa Fe, Argentina, he was "filled with astonishment" when he found a horse's tooth in the same stratum as fossils of giant armadillos and wondered if it might have been washed down from a later layer, but concluded this was "not very probable."

• The Transformation of the West

  • From north to south they were the Northern Pacific, Milwaukee Road, and Great Northern along the Canadian border; the Union Pacific/Central Pacific in the middle; and to the south the Santa Fe, and the Southern Pacific.
  • –Mexico border, particularly in Texas, Arizona, and California.