Santa Anna never marched an army to ________. But the fight with Texas would soon turn into a much bigger fight: a war with the whole United States.

Santa Anna’s army marched from ___________ further into Texas, where Sam Houston waited at the town of San Jacinto with nine hundred men.

Less than a month after the _____fell, Santa Anna camped less than a mile away from Sam Houston’s army.

The _____________surrendered. Most of them repeated over and over, “No Alamo! No Alamo!” They didn’t want the Texans to think that they had taken part in the siege of the Alamo—they might be killed at once!

Sam Houston ordered the prisoners spared. Santa Anna was forced to sign a treaty recognizing Texas as an independent republic. Then he was sent, under guard, to Washington, where President ___________ met him.

“What if the United States were to buy Texas from Mexico?” ____________suggested. “Then the fighting between Texans and Mexico could stop.”

For his new government, _____ had a single wooden building in Austin. Texas didn’t even have enough money to buy firewood to heat his office! He didn’t have enough money to pay a regular army. And he knew that if Mexico attacked again, Texas might well lose.

The solution was simple: Join the United States. If Texas became a _______, all of the U.S. Army would march to its defense.

Many Texans weren’t anxious to give up any of their brand-new independence. And not everyone in __________wanted _______to join the United States.

Americans who opposed slavery pointed out that ________would be a slave-owning state. _______was so huge that, once it became a state, the slave-holding areas of the United States would more than double!

Congress wrote on ________, “that a state, to be formed out of the present Republic of Texas…with two

representatives in Congress…shall be admitted into the Union…on an equal footing with the existing states.”

Mexicans protested that the United States had stolen their land! Bands of Mexican and American soldiers roamed along the border between Texas and Mexico, shooting at each other.

The United States planned to drive Mexico out of _____America all together! Mexico still claimed to own land to the north and west of the old Texas republic; the

United States would capture this territory too!

_______ had not served in Congress for very long. But when the United States Army marched over the Mexican border, headed toward Mexico City, he objected.

The general commanding the United States soldiers at once sent a young captain named ______ to climb those hills! He built a system of posts and ropes that the Americans could use to haul their cannons and ammunition up to the hilltops. The next morning, the Americans attacked Santa Anna’s army from all sides at once! Santa Anna was forced to call a retreat.

With American soldiers pouring through the streets of Mexico City, the Mexican Congress refused to sign a peace treaty.

In ______, the United States paid Mexico fifteen million dollars. In return, Mexico gave up Texas and another piece of land where California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, Wyoming, and part of New Mexico now lie.

A few years later, the United States paid Mexico another _______dollars for the rest of New Mexico.

The Mexican-American War was finally over. And the United States of America now held most of the land it owns today.