The War With Mexico
Following a Mexican cavalry attack on ______, 1846, the United States declared war on Mexico.
November 17th, April 25th, April 26th, August 17th
April 25th
The modern border took shape following the ______-______ War.
Mexican-American
Why did large numbers of Mexican refugees come to the Unites States in the 1910's?
To escape war at home.
The centerpiece of President Donald Trump's immigration plan is the construction of an "impenetrable, physical, tall, powerful, beautiful, ____ ____ ____."
southern border wall.
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
American forces captures the _______ capital in September 1847
Mexican
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
In the decades following the Mexican-American War, there were no _____ ______ on immigration from Mexico.
federal limits
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
The border between Unites States and Mexico mostly lacks any _____ ______ ______.
natural geographic barriers.
U.S. President James K. Polk captured the White House in 1844 on a pledge to __________.
enlarge U.S. territory
Following the Gadsden Purchase of 1853, the borders of _____ and ___ _____moved farther south from the Gila River.
Arizona, New Mexico
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
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
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
Under the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexico formally recognized the American _______ of Texas.
annexation
A team of surveyors, soldiers and officials from both countries staked out the border from _____ to _____.
El Paso, Tijuana
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
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
The U.S. Border Patrol also utilizes thousands of ______and _______ _______ as well as aircraft, drones and boats to monitor the boundary.
cameras, underground sensors
For $15 million, the United States purchased more than a half million square miles of formerly _____
____.
Mexican land
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
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
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
After winning its independence from Spain in 1821, Mexico stretched as far ____ as the Oregon Territory.
North, East, South, West
north