The war with mexico

Question 1

Who was James Polk?

Answer 1

The 11th President of the United States, serving from 1845-1849

Question 2

What is Manifest Destiny?

Answer 2

The belief that the United States was destined to stretch across the continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.

Question 3

Who came up with the term Manifest Destiny?

Answer 3

A newspaper editor named John O’Sullivan.

Question 4

What does manifest mean?

Answer 4

Clear or obvious

Question 5

What does destiny mean?

Answer 5

Events sure to happen

Question 6

Who occupied the Oregon Territory bewteen 1818 and 1846?

Answer 6

It was occupied jointly by the United States and Britain.

Question 7

What happened to the Oregon Territory in 1846?

Answer 7

It was divided along the 49th parallel. This still serves as much of the border between the United States and Canada?

Question 8

What happened after Texas was admitted as a slave state?

Answer 8

1. Mexico stilled claim Texas as its own.
2. Mexico viewed this annexation as an act of war.
3. Texas and Mexico could not agree on official border between them.

Question 9

What did Texas think was the border berween Texas and Mexico?

Answer 9

The Rio Grande, a river south of San Antonio

Question 10

What did Mexico think was the border between Texas and Mexico?

Answer 10

Nueces River

Question 11

What did Polk do to try to sttle the disputed boundary between Mexico and Texas?

Answer 11

He sent John Slidell to offer $25 million for Texas, California and New Mexico.
This offer was refused.
Polk then sent Zachary Taylor to station troops along the Rio Grande.

Question 12

How did mexico respond to US troops being moved to the northern bank of the Rio Grande?

Answer 12

Mexico viewed this as an act of war and moved an army to the southern bank of the Rio Grande
Mexico ambushed an American patrol on April 25, 1846.

Question 13

When did Congress declare war with Mexico?

Answer 13

April 27, 1846, two days after Mexico ambushed US troops

Question 14

How did Americans react to Polk’s declaration of war with Mexico?

Answer 14

1. Northerners questioned the justice of men dying in such a war
2. Abrahm Lincoln questioned the truthfulness of the president’s message and the need to declare war
3. Southerns saw expansion into Texas as an opportunity to extend slavery and to increase their power in Congress.

Question 15

Who was General Stephen Kearrny?

Answer 15

A US army officer who convinced Mexican troops that he meant to withdraw and was then able to take New Mexico without firing a shot.

Question 16

What is the Bear Flag Revolt?

Answer 16

1. In California, Americans led by John C. Fremont rebelled against Mexican rule.
2. They arrested the Mexican commander of California and raised a crude flag with a grizzly bear.
3. The rebels declared independence from Mexico and named it Republic of California
4. In fall US troops reached CA and America quickly gained control of all of CA

Question 17

How did The U S win the war with Mexico?

Answer 17

By invading from two directions. Fighting occurred in the north in Buena Vista and Near Mexico City (US troops entered from Gulf of Mexico)

Question 18

What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

Answer 18

1. It ended the Mexican war on February 2, 1848

2. Mexico recognized Texas was part of the United States and the Rio Grande was the border between The nations.

Question 19

What is the Mexican Cession?

Answer 19

Mexico ceded, or gave up, the area including present day California, Nevada, and Utah. Parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming were also ceded.

Question 20

What did Mexico get in return for the land ceded in the Mexican Cession?

Answer 20

1. US agreed to pay Mexico $15 million
2. US would pay $3.25 million of claims US citizens had against Mexico
3. US promised to protect 80,000 Mexicans living in Texas and the Mexican Cession.

Question 21

What was the Gadsden Purchase?

Answer 21

1. In 1853, Mexico sold a strip of land that is now southern New Mexico and southern Arizona to the US for $10 million

Question 22

Why did the US want the land purchased in the Gadsden Purchase?

Answer 22

For Southern Transcontinental Railroad