Mexican American War Quiz

A U.S. General who led the American Army against Mexico and was branded a national hero as a result of his victories.

• Abraham Lincoln

• Thomas Grant

• Zachary Taylor

• Rutherford B. Hayes

The region in the modern-day southwestern United States that Mexico ceded to the U.S. in 1848.

• Mexican Cession

• Adams-Onis

• Gadsden Purchase

• Louisiana Purchase

A treaty ending the war which gave the U.S. Texas, California, most of Arizona and New Mexico for $15 million.

• Treaty of Paris

• The Geneva Convention

• Treaty of Versailles

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

The belief that the United States should own all the land between the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans.

• Manifest Destiny

• Atlas Shrugged

• Poseidon Adventure

• Oregon Trail

The 1845 inclusion of Texas into the U.S. as the 28th state, which soured relations with Mexico and helped lead to war in 1846.

• Florida Annexation

• Georgia Annexation

• Texas Annexation

• Tennessee Annexation

Known as "Old Fuss and Feathers" he was a very accomplished general who won many battles in the war.

• Ulysses Grant

• Andrew Jackson

• Alexander Hamilton

• Winfield Scott

The 11th President of the U.S. who requested of congress to declare war on Mexico in a dispute over Texas.

• George Washington

• James K. Polk

• John Quincy Adams

• John Tyler

A former president of Mexico who declared himself president again and unsuccessfully tried to fight off the U.S. invasion.

• Antonio López de Santa Anna

• Andrés Manuel López Obrador

• Miguel de la Madrid

• José Joaquín de Herrera