Q 01/05

Before joining the US, Texas had been what since 1836?

A) Protectorate

B) Republic

C) Colony

D) Territory

Answer · why

B) Republic

Republic. Britain, France and the United States had all recognised it, but Mexico still claimed it, and so treated the 1845 annexation as the seizure ...

Q 02/05

In Mexico, the Mexican-American War is widely known by which of these names?

A) The United States intervention

B) The War of the North

C) The Texan Aggression

D) The War of the Río Bravo

Answer · why

A) The United States intervention

The United States intervention. Mexicans also call it the War of '47, the year American troops fought their way into Mexico City and occupied it.

Q 03/05

James K. Polk, who led the US into war with Mexico, is remembered as the first presidential nominee of which kind?

A) A favorite son

B) A write-in

C) A dark horse

D) A fusion candidate

Answer · why

C) A dark horse

A dark horse. Whigs jeered 'Who is James K. Polk?' all through the 1844 campaign, and the little-known Tennessean answered by winning the White House.

Q 04/05

Weeks after war with Mexico began, Polk settled which territory's border with Britain by treaty?

A) Maine

B) Alaska

C) Florida

D) Oregon

Answer · why

D) Oregon

Oregon. Polk's supporters had demanded all of it with the cry 'Fifty-four forty or fight', but he split the territory with Britain at the 49th paralle...

Q 05/05

Mexico claimed the Texas border lay along which river, rather than the Rio Grande?

A) The Colorado

B) The Nueces

C) The Brazos

D) The Pecos

Answer · why

B) The Nueces

The Nueces. The US army marched into the strip between the two rivers in 1846, and the first shots fired there became the president's case for war.