Background
The war began during this year.
What is 1846?
The belief that Americans have the right to expand to the Pacific Ocean
What is Manifest Destiny?
President Polk sent troops to what territory where war broke out?
What is the Texas border, the land in dispute?
The treaty was signed in this year.
What is 1848?
The war ended during this year.
What is 1848?
Texas voted to be added territory by the US, yet this request was rejected.
What is the Texas Annexation?
The Mexican president initially wanted to avoid this, yet it was the US's origional plan.
What is 500,000 square miles of land?
President of the US during the war
Who was James Polk?
The cause of the dispute between Mexico and the US.
What was the Border Dispute over the Texas border?
The US left from here to invade the heart of Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande?
The US took this on following the treaty.
What are financial grievances of US citizens against the Mexican government or its citizens?
The Mexican president and general
Who was Antonio López de Santa Anna?
The US attempted to purchase what land during negotiations with Mexico?
What is California and New Mexico?
This was the cause of most deaths of American Soldiers.
What is disease and illness?
Where the border between the US and Mexico was set following the treaty.
What is the Rio Grande and the Gilia River?
What were the failed negotiations between Mexico and the US?
Mexico's reaction to the US proposition.
What is Mexico's refusal of the purchase of New Mexico and California?
This was the end of the military phase of conflict during the war.
What was the fall of the Mexican capital?
The US gained this amount of its existing territory following the treaty.
What is 1/3 of its existing land?