Mexican-American War

All Americans supported the U.S.-Mexico War.

• True

• False

What year did Mexico free itself from Spain?

• 1820

• 1821

• 1812

• 1811

One way Mexican leaders wanted to increase the population of Northern Mexico in 1821 was...

• convert Indians to Catholicism

• sell land to the U.S.

• welcome settlers from the U.S.

• install railroads in Chihuahua

Mexico was _______ and anti slavery.

• Jewish

• Methodist

• Protestant

• Catholic

The American (Anglo) settlers were mostly ______ and _______.

• Protestant, anti-slavery

• Protestant, pro-slavery

• Catholic, anti-slavery

• Catholic, pro-slavery

The Texans won their independence from Mexico in...

• 1821

• 1826

• 1836

• 1846

Texas twice applied to the United States Congress for _____ but both times the Congress said no.

• immigration

• emmigration

• a loan

• annexation

Who was the United States' President in 1844?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Zachary Taylor

• Andrew Jackson

• James K. Polk

Manifest Destiny was...

• God's plan that America extend its territory all the way to the Pacific Ocean

• American economic plan that extended the railroad

• the exploration of the West for scientific purposes

• Mexico's plan for conquest

President James K. Polk sent envoy John Slidell to Mexico City to...

• try to sell Louisiana

• try to buy California

• try to end the war

• try to buy Chihuahua