1)Why was the US so eager to get its hands on Mexican territory? 2)What did the Mexican government do to try to keep Americans from taking over Texas?

3)What happened at the Alamo? Why was this incident important?

4)What does Takaki identify as the real reason behind President Polk’s decision to go to war with Mexico in 1846?

5)Why did the US want to control California?

6)What did the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo mean for the Mexicans who were now inside the US?

7) How did the California legislature impact Mexican Miners?

8) How did Anglos take over the ownership of Mexican land?

9) After so many Mexicans lost their land, how did they make their living?

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the crusades are one of the most significant events in the history of europe and the middle east.   they were a series of religious wars carried out by christian crusaders from europe during the timeframe of the middle ages.   beginning in 1095 ce, the crusades saw european knights and noblemen travel to the middle east in an attempt to capture the holy land away from muslim people that had controlled the region for the previous centuries.   the term crusade means ‘cross’.   therefore, the europeans that became crusaders viewed themselves as ‘taking up the cross’.   in fact, many of the crusaders wore crosses on their clothing and armor as they made their pilgrimage to the holy land.

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a, he promoted disarmament