Mexican-American war, 1846-47

Question 1

Mexico never

Answer 1

Recognised the Texan republic
A disputed part of their country

Question 2

Provoked a war

Answer 2

Needed an official declaration of war from congress for this to occur

Question 3

25th April 1846

Answer 3

11 American soldiers killed by the Mexicans
Soldiers were in Mexican territory to provoke a war

Question 4

Northern opposition to the war

Answer 4

Wilmot Proviso (1846)
Asked for more money from congress to aim for peace
Suggested Polk (President) was paying Mexico in return for land

Question 5

Wilmot Proviso banned

Answer 5

Slavery in any land gained from Mexico
Eventually failed
Wilmot himself was not an abolitionist

Question 6

Voted nearly

Answer 6

Unanimously across the regions
Against Proviso

Question 7

Proviso suggested

Answer 7

One could be anti-slavery but not anti-slave
Different to abolition

Question 8

Argued free whites could not

Answer 8

Compete with the plantation system
Living in the west on small farms
Didn’t want slavery to expand into the west

Question 9

President Polk wanted

Answer 9

To continue western expansion to California