BELLRINGER 3/10

Reorder the following

• MEXICAN AMERICAN WAR 1846-48

• TEXAS REVOLUTION 1830'S

• MEXICAN INDEPENDENCE 1820'S

• TEXAS ANNEXATION 1845

• SPANISH AMERICAN WAR 1898

Match the following

• NEWS DESIGNED TO SHOCK PEOPLE

• YELLOW JOURNALISM

• POWERFUL NATIONS CONTROL SMALLER NATIONS

• IMPERIALISM

• VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS LED BY TEDDY ROOSEVELT DURING SPANISH AMERICAN WAR

• ROUGH RIDERS

• U.S. SHIP THAT EXPLODED NEAR CUBA

• U.S.S. MAINE

Match the following

• DICTATOR OF MEXICO DURING THE 1830'S

• SANTA ANA

• STATEMENT TELLING EUROPEAN EMPIRES TO STAY OUT OF THE WEST

• MEXICAN AMERICAN WAR

• U.S. WINS THE WAR AND GETS MANY LANDS IN THE SOUTHWEST

• MONROE DOCTRINE

• U.S. WINS AND GETS PHILIPPINES, CUBA, GUAM, AND PUERTO RICO

• SPANISH AMERICAN WAR

WHY WAS PRESIDENT POLK INTERESTED IN GETTING CALIFORNIA FROM MEXICO?

• California had a large population of settlers from the United States.

• California had a wealth of natural resources.

• California had a strategic location for clown movies

• CALIFORNIA'S COAST HAD HARBORS THAT WERE GOOD FOR SHIPPING AND TRADE

WHY WAS PRESIDENT POLK INTERESTED IN GETTING NEW MEXICO?

• He wanted to expand China's territory

• The Santa Fe Trail was a good trade route

• He wanted to increase the country's economic growth

• He wanted to gain access to valuable resources

River claimed by the United States as the border with Mexico

• Mississippi

• Rio Grande

• Colorado

• Missouri

River claimed by Mexico as the border with the United States

• Nueces River

• Rio Grande

• Colorado River

• Arkansas River

Law that gave the U.S. a lot of control over Cuba after the Spanish American War.

• Monroe Doctrine

• Treaty of Paris

• Platt Amendment

• Roosevelt Corollary

Law passed that gave the U.S. power to set up a government in Puerto Rico after the Spanish American War

• The Treaty of Paris

• The Platt Amendment

• The Jones-Shafroth Act

• The Foraker Act

Treaty that ended the Mexican American War

• Treaty of the Timber

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Treaty of Holland

• Treaty of Grey Wall