Causes
This person was the General of the Mexican Army
Who is Antonio López de Santa Anna?
The battle that gave the U.S. control of Northern Mexico.
What is the Battle of Buena Vista?
The land that the United States added to its territory after the war.
What is the Mexican Cession?
The President who pushed for the expansion of the United States?
Who is President James K. Polk
The president of the United States during the Mexican American War?
Who is James K. Polk?
This battle gave the US control of Mexico City.
What is the Battle of Chapultepec?
This part of the Compromise of 1850 had to do with adding a state to the United States.
What is California is added as a free state?
The event that occurred in December 1845 that increased the United States territory?
What is the United States annexation of Texas?
The Mexican general who fought in both the Mexican American War and the Texas Revolution.
Who is Santa Anna?
The number of US soldiers who were killed by Mexican soldiers, that caused President Polk to declare war on Mexico.
What is 16 soldiers?
This was created because by Senator Henry Clay as an agreement between the Northern and Southern states after the US gained the Mexican Cession.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This said that slaves who escaped from one state to another would be returned to their owners.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
The US and Mexico were still arguing about THIS and it was a big cause of the war.
What is the border between the US and Mexico?
The General who won control of the Northern portion of Mexico in the war?
Who is Zachary Taylor?
This general beat Santa Anna's troops at the Battle of Buena Vista.
Who is Zachary Taylor?
This purchase was made by the United States for $10 million that gave the United States the strip of land that makes up Southern Arizona and New Mexico
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
This land was bought by the United States for the Transcontinental Railroad.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
The United States thought THIS should be the border between the US and Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande?
This person was a congressman from Illinois who was very opposed to the Mexican American War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Getting control of this city effectively won the war for the United States.
What is Mexico City?
The amount of money the U.S. paid Mexico for the big chunk of land after the Mexican American War.
What is $15 million?
This was in the Compromise of 1850 and had to do with Texas.
What is the north part of Texas was divided up into other states (New Mexico, etc) and Texas got $10 million for it?