People
Who was the President who pushed for the expansion of the United States?
Who is James K. Polk?
The belief that America had a God-given right to expand the country's borders from ‘sea to shining sea’
What is Manifest Destiny?
Strongly favored the conflict
What were Democrats?
Under the terms of the treaty negotiated by Trist, Mexico ceded to the United States Upper California and New
What was the Mexican Cession?
What is the name of the river divides Texas from Mexico?
What is the Rio Grande?
Who was the President of Mexico during this time?
Who is President José Joaquín Herreras?
the war of 1775–83 in which 13 British colonies in North America broke free from British rule and became the United States of America
What is the the American Revolution?
Believed the war was pointless, and an unnecessary attempt to steal land
What were Whigs?
Between 1848 and 1853 how much money did the United States pay to Mexico for land?
What was 25 million?
In 1850 one out of every how many Texans were slaves?
What is four
Who was sent to negotiate a settlement between Mexico and the United States after the admission of Texas into the Union?
Who is John Sidell?
an intellectual and cultural movement in the eighteenth century that emphasized reason over superstition and science over blind faith.
What was the Enlightenment?
Saw it as an attempt to extend slavery
What were Abolitionists?
What purchase was made by the United States that gave the United States the strip of land that makes up Southern Arizona and New Mexico
what was the Gadsden Purchase?
James K. Polk was the first president to win the office without a majority of the popular vote since what president?
Who is John Quincy Adams
Was sent by President Polk to negotiate terms for a treaty
Who is Nicholas Trist?
Disagreements between the U.S. and Mexico after the annexation of Texas
What were Border disputes?
believed that this was an attack on their country and their people, and did not see what they had done wrong in the Americans’ eyes
Who are the Mexicans?
what month of 1848 does the Mexican Congress ratify the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
What is May?
About what percent of U.S. casualties during the war resulted from disease?
What is 10%
Who was sent by President Polk to patrol the border
Who is Zachary Taylor?
The attack by Mexican troops shed “American blood on American soil"
What was the Attack on Gen. Taylor, and soldiers?
was a political party in the United States that evolved from a conservative-leaning faction of the Democratic-Republican Party that supported John Quincy Adams in the 1824 presidential election.
What was the National-Republican party
What treaty was signed on February 2, 1848 that declared Mexico's surrender and land to the United States for $15 million?
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
In March 1848 who is leaves for their exile in Jamaica?
Who is Santa Anna