1 Throw using the elbow, not the wrist or shoulder. 2  Try to throw the ball about as high as the top of your head. 3  Watch the ball as it reaches its peak in the air, picture where it will land, and then hold your other hand under it. 4  Do not reach up to catch the ball; the ball will come down to you.
The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended and specified the major consequence of the war: the Mexican Cession of the territories of Alta California and Santa Fe de Nuevo MÃ©xico to the United States. The US agreed to pay $15 million to pay the physical damage of war.
Mexican American War. The Mexican-American War was an armed conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848 in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas. Mexico claimed ownership of Texas as a breakaway province and refused to recognize the secession and subsequent military victory by Texas in 1836.