Mexico: Battle for North America TRUE OR FALSE

Mexico: Battle for North America TRUE OR FALSE? v.2

______1. In 1837 Santa Ana returned to Mexico in disgrace.

______2. Mexico fought the “Pastry War” against France.

______3. Santa Ana lost a leg in the Pastry War.

______4. To help his people, Santa Ana lowered their taxes.

______5. Santa Ana hated cockfighting and thought gambling should be illegal.

______6. Santa Ana married a young 15 year old girl.

______7. A mob paraded through the streets with Santa Ana’s amputated leg.

______8. In 1845 the United States still refused to annex Texas (make it part of the U.S.).

______9. Mexican citizens were confident they could defeat the U.S. in war.

_____ 10. Texas claimed the Rio Grande River as its boundary with Mexico.

_____ 11. Lincoln said the area between the Nueces and Rio Grande was not disputed.

_____ 12. Santa Ana returned from exile in Cuba to lead Mexican forces against the U.S.

_____ 13. At Buena Vista Zachary Taylor had three times as many soldiers as Santa Ana.

_____ 14. At Buena Vista the Mexicans were stopped by Robert E. Lee and his Virginia

volunteers.

_____ 15. The Battle of Buena Vista “created” two presidents: Zachary Taylor and

Jefferson Davis.

_____ 16. Winfield Scott’s army was unable to capture the Mexican port of Veracruz.

_____ 17. At the Battle of Cerro Gordo the Mexicans were able to outflank the American

army and attack from the rear.

_____ 18. According to legend, a Mexican military cadet wrapped himself in the

Mexican flag and leapt to his death from the walls of Chapultepec Castle.

_____ 19. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo gave only a small part of Mexico to the U.S.

_____ 20. A year after the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed, gold was discovered

in California.

_____ 21. Santa Ana sold southern Arizona to the U.S. for 10 million dollars.

_____ 22. The Constitution of 1857 decreased the power of the (Catholic) Church.

_____ 23. Benito Juárez was the first full-blooded Indian to rule Mexico.

_____ 24. Juárez allowed the Church to keep all its property, including buildings.

_____ 25. Napoleon III didn’t really want an empire in Mexico at all.

_____ 26. In 1861 Juárez suspended payment of Mexico’s foreign debts for two years.

_____ 27. At Puebla Mexican forces under Santa Ana defeated and stopped the French.

_____ 28. Napoleon III chose the Austrian archduke Maximilian to rule in Mexico.

_____ 29. In the spring of 1865, the U.S. began supplying more arms to Benito Juárez’s

guerrilla fighters.

_____ 30. After capturing Maximilian, Juárez allowed him to return home unharmed to

Austria.