Military And Diplomatic Expansion (WOR)

Question 1

Alamo

Answer 1

The Alamo Mission, commonly called the Alamo and originally known as the Mission San Antonio de Valero, is a historic Spanish mission and fortress compound founded in the 18th century by Roman Catholic missionaries in what is now San Antonio, Texas, United States.

Question 2

Aroostook War

Answer 2

A confrontation in 1838-39 between the United States and Great Britain over the international boundary between British North America (Canada) and Maine.

Question 3

Webster-Ashburton Treaty

Answer 3

Webster–Ashburton Treaty, (1842), treaty between the U.S. and Great Britain establishing the northeastern boundary of the U.S. and providing for Anglo–U.S. cooperation in the suppression of the slave trade.

Question 4

Rio Grande

Answer 4

The Rio Grande, known in Mexico as the Río Bravo del Norte or simply the Río Bravo, is one of the principal rivers in the southwestern United States and in northern Mexico.

Question 5

Nueces River

Answer 5

The Nueces River is a river in the U.S. state of Texas, about 315 miles long. It drains a region in central and southern Texas southeastward into the Gulf of Mexico.

Question 6

Mexican War

Answer 6

The Mexican–American War, also known in the United States as the Mexican War and in Mexico as the Intervención estadounidense en México, was an armed conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848.

Question 7

Treaty of Guadelupe-Hidalgo

Answer 7

This treaty, signed on February 2, 1848, ended the war between the United States and Mexico. By its terms, Mexico ceded 55 percent of its territory, including the present-day states California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, most of Arizona and Colorado, and parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Wyoming.

Question 8

Mexican Cession

Answer 8

The Mexican Cession is the region in the modern-day southwestern United States that Mexico ceded to the United States in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 after the Mexican–American War.

Question 9

Walker Expedition

Answer 9

The William Walker Filibuster Expedition to Baja California and Sonora occurred in the year of 1853, after a failed attempt by Walker himself to invade Sonora from the Arizona border.

Question 10

Clayton-Bulwer Treaty

Answer 10

The Clayton-Bulwer Treaty was an agreement that stated that both the United States and the United Kingdom were not to colonize or control any Central American republic.

Question 11

Gadsden Purchase

Answer 11

The Gadsden Purchase is a 29,670-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States acquired from Mexico by the Treaty of Mesilla, which took effect on June 8, 1854.

Question 12

Foreign Commerce

Answer 12

Foreign commerce means commerce or travel between any part of the United States and any place outside the United States.

Question 13

Exports and Imports

Answer 13

Exports are goods that are sold in a foreign market, while imports are foreign goods that are purchased in a domestic market.

Question 14

Kanagawa Treaty

Answer 14

The Convention of Kanagawa, also known as the Kanagawa Treaty or the Japan–US Treaty of Peace and Amity, was a treaty signed between the United States and the Tokugawa Shogunate on March 31, 1854.