TAKAKI CHAPTER 7

TAKAKI CHAPTER 7- FOREIGNERS IN THEIR NATIVE LAND
In this chapter, Takaki writes about how the Market Revolution propelled American expansion towards the Pacific. To achieve their goal of expansion, the United States armed forces needed to recruit more people. At this time, there were a lot of Iris people in America who ran away from British colonization. Hence they “found themselves becoming Americans by participating in the conquest of the Southwest- an American expansionist thrust celebrated as manifest destiny” (167). The state of interest at this time was California. In order to add California to the United States, the armed force had to go to war against Mexicans who were the inhabitants at that time. The war began in a small town called Sonoma. The aim here was to get Don Vallejo, a Californian by birth and a general, into captive because “he represented a long history of Spanish and Mexican efforts to secure the Californian territory against America and Russian expansion” (168). Therefore, he and his brother and brother in law were taken captive though Don Vallejo was later released.