The Anglo-American Period

Through the period of 1865-1900, America’s agriculture underwent a series of changes .Changes that were a product of influential role that technology, government policy and economic conditions played. To extend on this idea, changes included the increase on exported goods, do the availability of products as well as the improved traveling system of rail roads. In the primate stages of these developing changes, farmers were able to benefit from the product, yet as time passed by, dissatisfaction grew within them. They no longer benefited from the changes (economy went bad), and therefore they no longer supported railroads. Moreover they were discontented with the approach that the government had taken towards the situation.

Year by year the farmers who lived on soil, whose returns were diminished by unrotated crops were offered the virgin soil of the frontier at nominal prices. Their growing families demanded more lands, and these were dear. The competition of the unexhausted, cheap, and easily tilled prairie lands compelled the farmer either to go west and continue the exhaustion of the soil on a new frontier, or to adopt intensive culture.

As a result the United States won the war. "The United States gained more than 525,000 square miles of territory as a result of the war." Attacks on US supply lines went on for awhile. On February 2, 1848, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed. After the war, Mexico agreed to sell California and the rest of the territory for $15 million plus any damage claims. "The war also revived the quarrels over slavery." The compromise of 1850 allowed California to choose whether it would be slave or free. The US took most of California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico. The Mexican War not only could have been avoided but brought up slavery again.

War with Mexico: A war from 1846-1848 between America and Mexico. America won in the end and got the land between California and Texas.

that President Polk had no right to do what he did. It is said that

The Mexican War of 1846-1848 was one of major importance to U.S. history, but has since fallen into annals of obscurity. It was the nation’s first war fought on foreign soil: a war that advocated the concept of “manifest destiny”, the United States God-given right to claim territory for the establishment of a free democratic society (Stevenson 2009). Even though many historians claim the war was forced on Mexico by slaveholders greedy for new territory, President John Polk viewed the war as an opportunity to defend the annexation of Texas, establish the Rio Grande as its border, and to acquire the Mexican territories of California and New Mexico (Stevenson 2009).

After the Midwest had been substantially developed, the national focus turned toward the far west. The territory of Texas, controlled by the Spanish, was settled by Americans, who eventually undertook the Texas Rebellion in efforts to win independence. When the United States admitted Texas to the Union in 1845, the Mexican government was outraged, and from 1846 to 1848, the two nation's squared off in the Mexican War. With a resounding victory, the United States gained control of Texas, New Mexico, and California. The Oregon territory was annexed in 1846 as well, and the US controlled the land all the way to the Pacific Ocean.

Unfortunately, a new life in California was not as ideal as they thought it would be. There were less jobs available than were advertised. In California, many farmers found themselves still unemployed. They gave up farming corporations when they discovered that a good portion of California’s farmlands were owned by large farms with various different crops and eventually they looked to do different work. (“The Dust Bowl” 2)

Before the start of the Gold Rush in 1849, California was a Mexican territory. It is Key to note (for later understanding of the issues concerning land ownership and makeshift law within the gold mining districts) that the Gold Rush was not a factor of concern for neither country within the Mexican War. The Mexican War was sparked by the increasingly hostile territorial disputes between Mexico and the, at the time, Republic of Texas. These territorial disputes of regions within California led to the United States

The Mexican-American War (1846-1848) was the first U.S. armed conflict fought on foreign soil. It positioned a politically divided and militarily unprepared Mexico against the expansionist-minded administration of U.S. President James K. Polk, who believed the United States had a “manifest destiny” to spread across the continent to the Pacific Ocean. A border skirmish along the Rio Grande started off the fighting and was followed by a series of U.S. victories. When the dust cleared, Mexico had lost about one-third of its territory, including nearly all of present-day California, Utah, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico. In exchange for surrendering and his release to the United States, the Mexican General Santa Anna agreed to have the boundary line set at the Rio Grande between Texas and Mexico. Of course, it did not pan out as expected. The plan presented was for the boundary to run northward. This would include New Mexico as well as some land in west Texas. Instead, the Mexican government drew the border at the Nueces River.

During the 1930's the Dust Bowl occurred forcing many of the tenet farmers, the migrants, to move away from their farmland to California in hope of a better life. In this

The historical time period greatly affected our culture in the following ways. Despite the other advances in technology in the rest of the world, the Supercalifragilisicexpialidoucians were not acquainted with the sudden advances. Although maps existed in 1631, the time of migration of the Supercalifragilisticexpialidocians, they were not as advanced as the ones we are used to today. Because they entire world had not been discovered yet there were many empty spaces. Cartographers, or map makers, wanted to fill that empty space so they filled them with legends from sailors like a sea monster or sirens. Communication with other cultures was limited due to language barriers. Also there were not many ways for information

e end of 1920s, before the great depression ended farmers were encountering hard times. As in the "Grapes of Wrath" the Joads family were required out their own farms and had to move to California to live and obtain a bright future.

The cattle industry began since the early settlements. Men and women moved cattle from the mountains in San Diego County down into the Valley. They came in the late 1800s and early 1900s and founded 73 cattle-feeding businesses in the Valley. The land was fertile and perfect for agriculture, particularly barley and alfalfa. Not to mention, the suitable weather for agriculture. This, of course, made it a suitable place to raise livestock. Cattle was then shipped in large numbers, boosting the dairy industry up. This was the first step into a blossoming industry.

The Mexican War between the United States and Mexico began with a Mexican attack on American troops along the southern border of Texas on Apr. 25, 1846. Fighting ended when U.S. Gen. Winfield Scott occupied Mexico City on Sept. 14, 1847; a few months later a peace treaty was signed at Guadalupe Hidalgo. In addition to recognizing the U.S. annexation of Texas, defeated Mexico ceded California and , New Mexico (including all the present-day states of the Southwest) to the United States. During the war political quarrels arose regarding the disposition of conquered Mexico. A