Questions for Today's Reading

The Mexican-American War

The United States claimed that the border between Mexico and the U.S. was the

While Mexico claimed that the border was the __________________________.

1. Colonel Hitchcock wrote, “I have said from the first the United States are the aggressors….” Explain how the U.S. provoked Mexico into war.

2. Why was poet James Russell Lowell against the war?

3. What was the name of the essay that Henry David Thoreau wrote?

4. State two facts that the American naval officer tells the chiefs from various tribes in California.

5. Other than combat, name other causes of death for the American soldiers.

6. How many people deserted (left) the army during the war?

7. Explain the Treaty of Hidalgo.

8. Who was John O’Sullivan?

9. What were the actions taken by Congress that made it almost impossible to debate going to war?

10. Why were Reverend Theodore Parker and Congressman Delano against the Mexican-American War?

11. Explain Lincoln’s stance on the War with Mexico.

12. Explain the quote from the New York Herald on page 13.

13. Who captured Santa Fe?

14. Give an example of American soldiers acting undisciplined

15. Give an example of American officers mistreating the soldiers.