A history of the United States of America; its people and its institutions . Jajies K. Polk. rULiK S AUMliNlSTliATlUiN. 321. from Greenwich 97 WAK ^VITIl MEXICO SCALE OF MILES m 500 ??. IOWA 322 THE SLAVERY CONTEST. into four States, but no movement to do this has everbeen taken, and Texas was the last slave State admittedto the Union. The Boundary of Texas.—In admitting Texas the UnitedStates had opened the way to a serious trouble. Mexicohad never acknowledged the independence of its lost prov-ince, though it had taken no steps to recover it. And animportant boundary question existed. Texas
A history of the United States of America; its people and its institutions . Jajies K. Polk. rULiK S AUMliNlSTliATlUiN. 321. from Greenwich 97 WAK ^VITIl MEXICO SCALE OF MILES m 500 ??. IOWA 322 THE SLAVERY CONTEST. into four States, but no movement to do this has everbeen taken, and Texas was the last slave State admittedto the Union. The Boundary of Texas.—In admitting Texas the UnitedStates had opened the way to a serious trouble. Mexicohad never acknowledged the independence of its lost prov-ince, though it had taken no steps to recover it. And animportant boundary question existed. Texas claimed thather western boundary was the Rio Grande River. Mexicoheld that the Nueces River was the true boundary. Betweenthese two rivers lay a wide tract of land which both countriesclaimed. The question of its ownership led to war. The Disputed Territory Occupied.—President Polk lostno time in taking decisive steps. General Zachary Taylorwas ordered, in the summer of 1845, to Corpus Christi, onthe Nueces, and in the spring of 1846 was directed to pro-ceed to the Rio Grande. The Mexicans claimed that Taylorhad
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