Mexican American War
The Napoleon of the west, he was in power in Mexico 11 times
Who is López de Santa Anna
The name of the Aztec leader and priest that served as Cortes's puppet
Who is Montezuma II
This social class was on top of the pyramid.
What is the Peninsulares
A person place or thing
What is a noun
The name of Mexico's captial city
The current state that helped start the Mexican American War when they declared their independence from Mexico
What is Texas
Capital of the Aztec Empire
What is Tenochtitlan
This man is was Criollo priest and the first leader of the Mexican War of Independence
Who is Miguel Hidalgo
An action word
What is a verb
The three empires that you mapped out in your Mexico Maps
What is the Maya, Olmec and Aztecs
The name of the US President during the war.
President James Polk
The City that is now located where Tenochtitlan once was
What is Mexico City
Large estates given to wealthy Spaniards by the Spanish crown-they were plantations, mines, or even business factories
What is Haciendas
A word that joins together two independent clauses
What is a Conjunction
The name of the desert in the northern part of Mexico
What is The Chihuahuan Desert
The name of the river that is the border between Texas and Mexico
This plant was one of the most valuable to the Aztecs-- it later became an valuable Spanish export!
What is Cacao
3rd highest racial group in colonial Mexico, a person whose ancestors were both European and Indigenous.
Who is the Mestizos
A phrase that more fully describes a noun
What is an appositive
The treaty that ended the Mexican American War.
The name of the floating gardens of the Aztecs
What is Chinampas
This plan called for an independent Mexico ruled by a monarch, equality between Peninsulares and Criollos, and Roman Catholicism as the official religion)
What is the Plan de Iguala
A clause in a complex sentence that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence
What is a subordinate clause/dependent clause
The 3 countries that border Mexico