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    CHAPTER 15 QUESTIONS PART 2

    Oregon
    1. What agreement did Great Britain and the United States make in the 1820s concerning Oregon?
    2. Why was Oregon called a pioneers paradise?
    3. What did James Polk mean when he declared Fifty-four forty or fight! in the 1844 presidential
    campaign? Did he follow through with this campaign promise? Explain.
    War with Mexico
    4. Why did President Polk think the Mexican government might want to sell California and New Mexico?
    5. What year did Mexico win its independence?
    6. What reason did Polk use to declare war on Mexico?
    7. Choose one of these Mexican-American War battle locations: New Mexico, California, Monterrey,
    Buena Vista, or Chapultepec. Then create two historical newspaper headlines. Write the first headline for
    a U.S. newspaper whose editors agreed with manifest destiny. Write the second headline for a newspaper
    in Mexico.
    Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
    8. List three details of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
    9. Give two reasons some U.S. senators opposed this treaty.
    Gadsden Purchase
    10. Why did the US want the land from the Gadsden Purchase?

    CHAPTER 15 QUESTIONS PART 2


    Oregon
    1. What agreement did Great Britain and the United States make in the 1820s concerning Oregon?
    2. Why was Oregon called a pioneers paradise?
    3. What did James Polk mean when he declared Fifty-four forty or fight! in the 1844 presidential
    campaign? Did he follow through with this campaign promise? Explain.
    War with Mexico
    4. Why did President Polk think the Mexican government might want to sell California and New Mexico?
    5. What year did Mexico win its independence?
    6. What reason did Polk use to declare war on Mexico?
    7. Choose one of these Mexican-American War battle locations: New Mexico, California, Monterrey,
    Buena Vista, or Chapultepec. Then create two historical newspaper headlines. Write the first headline for
    a U.S. newspaper whose editors agreed with manifest destiny. Write the second headline for a newspaper
    in Mexico
    Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
    8. List three details of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
    9. Give two reasons some U.S. senators opposed this treaty.
    Gadsden Purchase
    10. Why did the US want the land from the Gadsden Purchase?

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