NEW MEXICO HISTORY STATEHOOD #4 EXAM | QUESTIONS & ANSWERS (VERIFIED) | LATEST UPDATE | GRADED A+

NEW MEXICO HISTORY STATEHOOD #4 EXAM | QUESTIONS & ANSWERS (VERIFIED) | LATEST UPDATE | GRADED A+ Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Correct Answer: (1848) treaty signed by the U.S. and Mexico that officially ended the Mexican-American War; Mexico had to give up much of its northern territory to the U.S (Mexican Cession); in exchange the U.S. gave Mexico $15 million and said that Mexicans living in the lands of the Mexican Cession would be protected Compromise of 1850 Correct Answer: (1) California admitted as free state, (2) territorial status and popular sovereignty of Utah and New Mexico, (3) resolution of Texas-New Mexico boundaries, (4) federal assumption of Texas debt, (5) slave trade abolished in DC, and (6) new fugitive slave law; advocated by Henry Clay and Stephen A. Douglas Gadsden Purchase Correct Answer: Agreement w/ Mexico that gave the US parts of present-day New Mexico & Arizona in exchange for $10 million; all but completed the continental expansion envisioned by those who believed in Manifest Destiny. Mexican-American War Correct Answer: () The war between the United States and Mexico in which the United States acquired one half of the Mexican territory. Navajo Long Walk Correct Answer: Penin300 mile march, Navajo forced to walk across the desert to a reservation in New Mexico Peninsularies Correct Answer: European-born elite in Latin America Criollos Correct Answer: Spaniards born in the New Worl