Number the events in the order in which they occurred, from earliest to latest.
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_____ Mexico stops payment on its debt to the United States because of the dispute over the
Texas-Mexico border.
_____ Mexico wins its independence from Spain.
_____ American families begin to arrive in California to settle.
_____ Relations between Mexico and the United States worsen when Texas is annexed to the
United States.
_____ A small group of Americans seize the California town of Sonoma and proclaim the
independent Republic of California.
_____ Polk sends John Slidell to Mexico to offer the Mexican government $30 million for
California and New Mexico if Mexico will accept the Rio Grande as the Texas boundary.
_____ The United States controls all of California.
_____ In an attempt to provoke Mexico, James K. Polk orders General Zachary Taylor to lead a
small army across the disputed border.
_____ Zachary Taylor secures the Texas border with a victory at Buena Vista.
_____ The United States pays Mexico $10 million for the Gadsden Purchase.
_____ The Americans take Mexico City.
_____ The Unites States and Mexico sign the Treaty of Hidalgo.