future plans for the border
The centerpiece of President Donald _______'s immigration plan is the construction of an "impenetrable, physical, tall, powerful, beautiful, southern border wall."
1. Obama's
2. Biden's
3. Bush's
4. Trump's
4. Trump's
The modern border took shape following the ____________ War.
1. Mexican-American war
2. French and Indian war
3. American revolution
4. Civil war
1. Mexican-American war
This bill, known as the Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of ____, was denounced by multiple civil rights groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
1. 2020
2. 2005
3. 2010
4. 2001
2. 2005
U.S. President ________ captured the White House in 1844 on a pledge to enlarge U.S. territory.
James K. Polk
Under the 1848 Treaty of __________, Mexico formally recognized the American annexation of Texas.
Guadalupe Hidalgo
Trump has claimed that 1,000 miles of new wall as high as __ feet tall
1. 1000
2. 79
3. 55
4. 42
3. 55
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 cost and time it would take to complete the project. Not until the late ____s did the boundary commission complete its work.
1. 1960s
2. 1850s
3. 1790s
4. 1830s
2. 1850s
It was ____ immigrants, not Mexicans, that the United States first sought to keep from illegally crossing its southern border
1. Canadian
2. Bristish
3. Japanese
4. Chinese
4. Chinese
Relations with Mexico deteriorated after the United States annexed Texas in ____.
1845
For $__ million, the United States purchased more than a half million square miles of formerly Mexican land.
15
Trump has claimed that 1,000 miles of new wall as high as 55 feet tall, running through remote, mountainous terrain, can be built for $18 billion. However analysis by independent experts estimates the cost to be $__ billion
1. 4
2. 60
3. 40
4. 12
3. 40
the Rio Grande formed the dividing line between _____ and Mexico
1. New Jersey
2. new mexico
3. ohio
4. texas
4. texas
The United States began the installation of border fences to restrict the movement of unlawful immigrants and drugs in 1993 when President _______ ordered the construction of a 14-mile barrier between San Diego and Tijuana.
1. Clinton
2. Obama
3. Trump
4. Whashington
1. Clinton
When Mexico refused an American offer to purchase California and New Mexico for $__ million, Polk dispatched 4,000 troops into land claimed by both countries. The disputed territory lay north of the Rio Grande and south of the Nueces River.
30
The newly acquired territory would encompass all or most of the future states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada and ____, as well as portions of present-day Colorado, Wyoming, Oklahoma and Kansas.
Utah
Approximately ____ million Mexican immigrants resided in the United States in 2016
1. 3.4
2. 9.8
3. 40.5
4. 11.6
4. 11.6
Following the Gadsden Purchase of 1853, the borders of Arizona and _____ moved farther south from the Gila River
1. new york
2. Oklahoma
3. califfornia
4. new mexico
4. new mexico
The Secure Fence Act of 2006 authorized the construction of ___ miles of border fencing and vehicle barriers. Work was completed in 2011.
700
Following a Mexican cavalry attack on April 25, ____, the United States declared war on Mexico.
1846
The newly acquired territory would encompass all or most of the future states of _______, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada and Utah, as well as portions of present-day Colorado, Wyoming, Oklahoma and Kansas.
California
In April 2018, President Trump announced that he was ordering ___________ troops to patrol the border until further progress is made on construction of the wall.
national guard
Following the Gadsden Purchase of ____, the borders of Arizona and New Mexico moved farther south from the Gila River.
1853
Restrictions on the movement of Mexican citizens were not particularly enforced by the U.S. government until the decade of the Mexican Revolution in the ____s
1910s
After a series of bloody battles and sieges, American forces captured the Mexican capital in ______ 1847
September
Polk dispatched ____ troops into land claimed by both countries.
4000