In the month of May, two key anniversaries that spurred the Civil War into motion occurred between the United States and Mexico over a conflict that centered on Texas. The Mexican-American War ...

WARM-UP: Have the students answer the following questions before starting ... on the clips using the Mexican-American War Video Questions Handout (Google Doc). After students finish, review ...

Modern historians view the Mexican-American ... But after arriving in the port of Veracruz, Santa Anna double-crossed Polk and assumed command of the Mexican military. In the U.S., war efforts ...

For all that it did, the Mexican-American War is a relatively overlooked conflict in American history. A little more than a year after its defeat ... in 1829, well before the passage of the ...

when two armies faced off there in the climactic battle of the Mexican-American War. After more than a year and a dozen engagements on land and sea, the U.S. had yet to suffer a defeat.

MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR. Many of the 10,000 people living in Cleveland in 1846 ... volunteers was jointly raised in Cleveland and Cincinnati in the spring of 1847, after Gen. Winfield Scott had landed at ...