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100
The belief that America had a God-given right to expand the country's borders from 'sea to shining sea'
What is Manifest Destiny
100
Who was the President of Mexico during this time?
Who is Antonio López de Santa Anna
100
Polk fulfilled a campaign promise by doing this.
What is admitting the Republic of Texas into the United States as a state.
100
The land that the United States added to its territory after the war would become these states or parts of states?
What are Texas, California, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming?
100
What is the name of the river divides Texas from Mexico?
What is the Rio Grande
200
By 1830 this number of Americans had moved into the Mexican state called Texas?
What is 30,000?
200
He was the presidential candidate and later President of the United States who supported the annexation of Texas
Who is James K. Polk
200
The United States and Mexico disagreed on the border of Texas based on these two rivers.
What are the Rio Grande and the Nueces?
200
What treaty was signed on February 2, 1848 that declared Mexico's surrender and land to the United States for $15 million?
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
200
Northerners were ___________ the war with Mexico while southerners were ____________ the war.
What is against (north) and for (south)?
300
He and his father asked for and received permission from the Mexican Government to establish a settlement in the Mexican state called Texas in 1820.
Who was Stephen Austin?
300
He was from Massachusetts and against the war?
Who is Daniel Webster?
300
Polk wanted war but he was afraid of political opinion in the US so he needed this from Mexico.
What was Mexico to fire the first shot?
300
In what month of 1848 does the Mexican Congress ratify the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
What is May
300
This was the reason why the people of the North did not want Texas and why the people of the South did.
What was slavery?
400
This was the year when both the signing of the declaration of Texas independence and the crushing defeat at the Alamo took place.
What was 1836?
400
He was the General who was sent to the Rio Grande to build and command a fort (Fort Texas) just north of the Rio Grande.
Who is Zachary Taylor
400
This was the US strategy for the war.
What was a three pronged attack?
400
What purchase was made by the United States that gave the United States the strip of land that makes up Southern Arizona and New Mexico
What is the Gadsden Purchase
400
An attack in which ships take troops to a place where they land and then move inland is called this/
What is an amphibious assault?
500
The battle at Rancho de Carritos in April 1845, gave this to James K. Polk.
What is a reason to declare war.
500
These two future Presidents were both against going to war with Mexico.
Who were Ulysses S. Grant and Abraham Lincoln?
500
The US entered Mexico city on this date and raised the American flag the following day, ending the war that lasted almost two years.
What is September 13th 1847?
500
Between 1848 and 1853 how much money did the United States pay to Mexico for land?
What is $25 million
500
The attack by the Mexican Army at the battle of Carritos reminds me of this.
What is the Tonkin Gulf incident that gave Johnson a reason to go to war.
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