The War With Mexico
The Establishment Of The U.S.-Mexico Border
U.S. Immigration Policy
Future Plans For The Border
Misc
100

Following a Mexican cavalry attack on ______, 1846, the United States declared war on Mexico.

November 17th, April 25th, April 26th, August 17th

April 25th

100

The modern border took shape following the ______-______ War.

Mexican-American

100

Why did large numbers of Mexican refugees come to the Unites States in the 1910's? 

To escape war at home.

100

The centerpiece of President Donald Trump's immigration plan is the construction of an "impenetrable, physical, tall, powerful, beautiful, ____ ____ ____."

southern border wall.

100

Approximately ____ miles of barbed wire, chain link, post-and-rail and wire mesh fencing has been erected along the U.S.-Mexico border.

700, 500, 600, 300

700

200

American forces captures the _______ capital in September 1847

Mexican 

200

 According to historian Rachel St. John, author of "Line in the Sand: A History of the Western U.S.-Mexico Border," the joint boundary commission underestimated the ____ and ____it would take to complete the project.

cost, time

200

In the decades following the Mexican-American War, there were no _____ ______ on immigration from Mexico.

federal limits

200

The Mexican government has stated that it will not pay for the wall's construction, contrary to a pledge Trump repeatedly made during the 2016 presidential campaign. In ____ 2018, Congress contributed only $1.6 billion to the project.

March

200

The border between Unites States and Mexico mostly lacks any _____ ______ ______.

natural geographic barriers.

300

U.S. President James K. Polk captured the White House in 1844 on a pledge to __________.

enlarge U.S. territory

300

Following the Gadsden Purchase of 1853, the borders of _____ and ___ _____moved farther south from the Gila River.

Arizona, New Mexico

300

It was _______immigrants, not Mexicans, that the United States first sought to keep from illegally crossing its southern border after the passage of the _______ Exclusion Act of 1882.

Chinese, Chinese 

300

In April 2018, President Trump announced that he was ordering _____ _____ ____ to patrol the border until further progress is made on construction of the wall.

National Guard troops

300

The border between the United States and Mexico stretches for nearly 2,000 miles. It extends from the ________ to the ________.

Gulf of Mexico, Pacific Ocean

400

Under the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexico formally recognized the American _______ of Texas.

annexation

400

A team of surveyors, soldiers and officials from both countries staked out the border from _____ to _____.

El Paso, Tijuana

400

One of the ways that immigrants from China would try to get across the border is to learn a few words of _______ and disguise themselves as ______," St. John says.

Spanish, Mexican

400

Trump has claimed that 1,000 miles of new wall as high as ___feet tall, running through remote, mountainous terrain, can be built for $18 billion. However, an analysis by independent experts estimates the cost to be $40 billion.

75, 60, 55, 80

55

400

The U.S. Border Patrol also utilizes thousands of ______and _______ _______ as well as aircraft, drones and boats to monitor the boundary.

cameras, underground sensors

500

 For $15 million, the United States purchased more than a half million square miles of formerly _____

____.

Mexican land

500

While the Rio Grande formed the dividing line between Texas and Mexico, the border originally moved west from El Paso on a straight line to the ______ _____ and then on another straight line to the ______ ______ south of San Diego.

Gila River, Pacific Ocean

500

Restrictions on the movement of Mexican citizens were not particularly enforced by the U.S. government until the decade of the ______ ______ in the 1910s," St. John says.

Mexican Revolution

500

Trump was not the first U.S. president to take such a step. Both _____ _ ____and _____ _____ also sent the National Guard to assist with border security.

George W. Bush, Barack Obama

500

After winning its independence from Spain in 1821, Mexico stretched as far ____ as the Oregon Territory.

North, East, South, West

north

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