Manifest Destiny - Mexican American War

What caused the Mexican-American War?

Answer explanation

1.) ​Polk sent a representative to try and buy New Mexico and California Mexican officials refused even to see Polk's representative.

2.) On April 25, 1846, Mexican soldiers fired on U.S. troops who were patrolling along the Rio Grande. Sixteen Americans were killed or wounded.

​3.) Polk charged Mexico with invading the US in an angry speech to Congress. Two days later Congress declared war on Mexico.​

What three steps did the U.S. use to win the Mexican-American War?

• Negotiate a treaty setting the Oregon border at 49°

• Troops led by General Kearney invaded California

• Troops led by General Taylor forced Mexican General Santa Ana to retreat.

• General Winfield Scott led troops into the Mexican capital

What did the United States gain from the Mexican-American War?

Answer explanation

Mexico agreed to give up Texas and a vast region known as the Mexican Cession. This area included the present-day states of California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico, as well as parts of Colorado and Wyoming.

This guy was president during the Mexican American War.

• Andrew Jackson

• George Washington

• Zachary Taylor

• James K. Polk

Who said, "Mexico has …invaded our territory and shed American blood upon the American soil"?

• James K. Polk

• Zachary Taylor

• Winfield Scott

• Abraham Lincoln

The war ended with 2 sides signing a treaty which took away half of Mexico's land. What was the name of the treaty?

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Treaty of Paris

• Treaty of Nantes

• Olive Branch Petition

The war with Mexico BEGAN with

• California's rebellion
• a border dispute in Texas
• the Battle of Buena Vista
• a US invasion of Mexico City

Which area on the map was acquired by the United States as a result of the Mexican War?

• Texas Annexation
• Gadsden Purchase 
• Mexican Cession
• Oregon Territory

Which of the following occurred as a result of these events?

• The president of Mexico refused to withdraw troops from Texas

• Parts of southern Texas were returned to Mexico

• The United States acquired several territories from Mexico

• Mexico was forced to sell Florida to the United States

What was the idea called that "god" wanted America to stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean?

• Manifest Destiny

• Stretchy Time

• Westward Expansion

• LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOO (to the pacific ocean)