FINAL EXAM: MEXICAN AMERICAN
HISTORY
Manifest Destiny referred to: - Correct Answers -Euro-american (Anglo) cultural and
racial superiority,
Euro-american technological and economic advancements, and populating of the west
by Euro-americans
The nation that sometimes uses the term "War of North American invasion" is Mexico:
True or False? - Correct Answers -True
What does Manuel Gonzales mean in
Mexicanos: A History of Mexicans in the
United States when he writes "Polk determined to use war as an instrument of
diplomacy?" - Correct Answers -That Polk planned to justify a war with Mexico by
sending U.S. troops into the disputed territory between the U.S. and Mexico, which he
hoped would provoke war.
The Treaties of Velasco, 1836, were not honored by Mexico because: - Correct
Answers -The Mexican Congress never approved them
Secularization occurred due to the: - Correct Answers -Bourbon Reforms wanting to
dilute religious officials powers
What does the Grito de Dolores refer to? - Correct Answers -It started the Mexican War
for independence from Spain
What group led the Mexican war for independence (1810-21) initially? - Correct
Answers -Criollos
What does Gonzales mean by the U.S. using force when persuasion did not work? -
Correct Answers -- That the U.S. could not convince Mexicans living in Mexico's
northernmost territories, like California, to secede from Mexico.
- And that the U.S. could not convince Mexico to sell its northernmost territories to the
U.S.
Mexico was the first, not the U.S., to officially declare war in 1846. - Correct Answers -
True
HISTORY
Manifest Destiny referred to: - Correct Answers -Euro-american (Anglo) cultural and
racial superiority,
Euro-american technological and economic advancements, and populating of the west
by Euro-americans
The nation that sometimes uses the term "War of North American invasion" is Mexico:
True or False? - Correct Answers -True
What does Manuel Gonzales mean in
Mexicanos: A History of Mexicans in the
United States when he writes "Polk determined to use war as an instrument of
diplomacy?" - Correct Answers -That Polk planned to justify a war with Mexico by
sending U.S. troops into the disputed territory between the U.S. and Mexico, which he
hoped would provoke war.
The Treaties of Velasco, 1836, were not honored by Mexico because: - Correct
Answers -The Mexican Congress never approved them
Secularization occurred due to the: - Correct Answers -Bourbon Reforms wanting to
dilute religious officials powers
What does the Grito de Dolores refer to? - Correct Answers -It started the Mexican War
for independence from Spain
What group led the Mexican war for independence (1810-21) initially? - Correct
Answers -Criollos
What does Gonzales mean by the U.S. using force when persuasion did not work? -
Correct Answers -- That the U.S. could not convince Mexicans living in Mexico's
northernmost territories, like California, to secede from Mexico.
- And that the U.S. could not convince Mexico to sell its northernmost territories to the
U.S.
Mexico was the first, not the U.S., to officially declare war in 1846. - Correct Answers -
True
