Mexican American War

What is a reperation

• payment for damages and suffering

• person who is sent by one government to represent it in dealing with another government

• to change a text

• a temporary end to fighting

True or False:  The population in Texas decreased in 1845 because it joined the United States.

• True
• False

The granting of land from one country to another is called

• cession
• permanent school fund
• veto
• annexation

Texas joined the United States as the 28th state in the year

• 1836
• 1845
• 1718
• 1824

The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo made the _______________ river the boundary between the US (Texas) and Mexico.

• Nueces River
• Sabine River
• Colorado River
• Rio Grande River

Texas joined the United States through a process called

• expedition
• veto
• annexation
• joint resolution

Who was the Mexican President during the Mexican American War?

• James K Polk

• Santa Anna

• Zachary Taylor

What were two (2) cause of the Mexican American War?

• Texas becoming the 28th state of America

• Texas being invaded by Mexico while it was an American state

• Texas wanting to break away from America and be its own state

• Texas wanting to break away from America and be a Mexican State

The United States thought the border between the United States and Mexico was the _________.

• Nueces River
• Rio Grande River
• Red River
• Trinity River

Which of the following was when Mexico gave its provinces of California and New Mexico up to the United States?

• Gadsden Purchase
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
• Mexican Cession
• None of the above