A pictorial school history of the United States; to which are added the Declaration of independence, and the Constitution of the United States . CALIFORNIA, {Questions to he answered from the above map.). How is San Antonio de Bexar situated? Vera Cruz? Alvarado? Matamoras?Jalapa Puebla? Saltillo? Leavenworth? San Francisco? Into what body olwater does the Rio Grande flow ? In what direction is Santa Fe from Leavenworth ?Saltillo from Matamoras ? Victoria from Saltillo ? City of Mexico from Jalapa ? folks administration. 269 SECTION VIII. THE BEGINNING OF POLks ADMINISTRATION, IN 1845,TO THE C
A pictorial school history of the United States; to which are added the Declaration of independence, and the Constitution of the United States . CALIFORNIA, {Questions to he answered from the above map.). How is San Antonio de Bexar situated? Vera Cruz? Alvarado? Matamoras?Jalapa Puebla? Saltillo? Leavenworth? San Francisco? Into what body olwater does the Rio Grande flow ? In what direction is Santa Fe from Leavenworth ?Saltillo from Matamoras ? Victoria from Saltillo ? City of Mexico from Jalapa ? folks administration. 269 SECTION VIII. THE BEGINNING OF POLks ADMINISTRATION, IN 1845,TO THE CLOSE OF BUCIIANAns, IN 18G1. POLKS ADMINISTKATIO]^. T. Polks inangura-tion took place on the4th of March, 1845.*His administration con-tinued during onlyone term, or fouryears, ending on the4th of March, 1849;but it was an eventfulone. At the beginningof it, he found thecountry involved in dis-putes with Mexico, inconsequence of the pas-sasce of the bill for theadmission of the 4th of July,1845, the legislature ofTexas approved thisbill, and, by the act ofapproval, Texas was ad-. * President Polks cabinet was constituted as follows: Jaaies Buchanan, Secretary of State: Robert ., Secretary of the Treasury, William L. Marcy Secretary of War; George Bancroft, Secretary otthe Navy; Cave Johnson, Postmaster-General , and John Y. Mason, Attorney-General. Polks Administkation.—I. Qpestions. 1. When -was Polk inaugurated? did his term of office begin and end ? 3. In what disnutes were the UnitedStates a party at the beginning of his administration ? 4. When and by what actwas the annexation of Texas consummated? 270 POLK S ADMINISTRATION. mittcd into the Union,making the whole num-ber of States twenty-eiofht. WAR WITH MEXICO. II. The annexation ofTexas led to a war withMexico ; for, notwith-standing the independ-ence of Texas had beenacknowledged by theUnited States, England,France, and other gov-ernments, Mexico stillclaimed it as a part ofher own territory,
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