Chapter 9 Mexican-American War

Under the __________ empresarios were given land in order to fill the land with American settlers.

• Manifest Destiny
• 54, 40 or Fight
• National Colonization Act
• annexation of Texas

Who was the President during "Manifest Destiny"?

• James Polk
• Zachary Taylor
• Thomas Jefferson
• John Brown

What was the meaning of "54, 40 or Fight"?

• California should stretch to the 54, 40 degree line of latitiude
• wanted to expand by 54,000 acres
• Canada should give Oregon to the US
• US wanted Oregon to stretch to 54, 40 line of latitude

The Rio Grande River became the border between the US and ________ after the Mexican-American War.

• Arizona
• Texas
• New Mexico
• Mexico

Mexico invited Americans to move into their land in order to 

• provide a buffer zone between them and Native Americans
• to become Mexican citizens
• farm the land
• to fight for the Mexican army

Define empresarios.

• Mexican farmers
• offered land by Mexico to encourage settlers
• those that fought in the Mexican army
• those who moved into Texas

American settlement in Texas was actually encouraged in the 1830's.

• True
• Fase

Manifest Destiny was finally achieved after the US defeated Mexico.

• True
• False

Texas entered the Union as a _____ state and ______ entered as a _______ state.

• free, California, slave
• slave, California, free
• free, Oregon, slave
• slave, Oregon, free

Texas was annexed by the US in the months leading up to the Mexican-American War.

• True
• False