The Mexican War
The year the Mexican War began.
What is 1846?
Created by Congress in 1850.
What is the New Mexico Territory?
Someone who is against slavery, such as many Northerners.
What is an abolitionist?
The states that fought to continue slavery in the U.S.
What is the Confederacy?
The result of Mexico refusing to sell California to the U.S. and the U.S. and Mexico disagreeing about borders.
What is the Mexican War?
(also known as the Mexican-American War)
The sale of more Mexican land to the U.S. in 1853.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
Huge farms where cotton and tobacco was grown using slave labor.
What are plantations?
President Lincoln's feelings when the Southern 11 states split away from the U.S.
What is outraged?
The U.S. wanted to discuss this with Mexico in the spring of 1847.
What is a peace treaty?
The reasons Mexicans travel into Arizona today.
What is to search for jobs, education, and better lives in the U.S.?
The president of the Confederates States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis.
The only civil war battle fought in present day Arizona.
What is the Battle of Picacho Pass?
The northern half of Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Wyoming.
What is the land gained by the U.S. after the Mexican War.
Fresh fruits, vegetables, and other products.
What is the products sent into the U.S. from Mexico.
What is Abraham Lincoln becoming president.
The side most Arizonans fought for during the Civil War, because many owned slaves.
What is Confederacy?
The peace treaty signed between Mexico and the U.S.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?
The important movement of products and ideas between the U.S. and Mexico.
What is trade?
Abraham Lincoln wanted to fight to do this after the southern states left the union.
What is put the U.S. back together?
What is the Union?