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. War between Mexico and the United States that started as the result of the annexation of Texas, a boundary dispute and the U.S's desire to obtain Mexico's northern territories.