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.
But Polk still did not expect the Mexicans to put up much of a fight. When his brother in Europe learned of what had happened, he wanted to come home and enlist, but Polk told him not to, as the war would soon be over. How important was the Texan boundary controversy as a cause of the war?