Answer: Who: United States, President James Polk, General Taylor, Col. Kearney, Commodore Stockton and others vs. Mexico, General Santa Anna
What: Dispute about the border, whether or not Texas could be part of the USA, and belief of many US citizens that there was a "manifest destiny" that the country extended all the way from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and include Texas, California, and the territory in between that had been part of Mexico.
When: April 1846 to February 1848
Where: War began at Coahuila, near the Rio Grande River. Included battles at Monterey, Buena Vista, Vera Cruz, Puebla and other places. Ended at the Battle of Chapultepec in Mexico City. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the war.
How: The USA had superior weapons, especially artillery and cannons. The Mexican government was disorganized, not prepared for war. Mexican troops suffered disease, fatigue, and desertion. When the US won, Mexico gave up the disputed territory extending from Texas to California and the USA paid 15 million dollars to Mexico for the territory.
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They all help us in the United States to be what it is today
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the availability of iron and coal, discovery of the New World, and an energetic scientific community.
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The correct answer is C.
Freedom Rides were performed during the Civil Rights Movement and started in 1961, in the route Washington D.C.-New Orleans. Activists organized themselves to use interstate buses that communicated different Southern cities, in order to <u>check whether segregation had been abolished or not in public transport interstate facilities</u>, as the US Supreme Court decisions <em>Morgan v. Virginia</em> (1946) and <em>Boynton v. Virginia </em>(1960) had stated.
They could see in person how Southern states had ignored those decisions and how segregation continued ocurring.
This statement is false. In 1984 and 1988, it was not the African-American L. Douglas Wilder who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination, instead, it was the Jesse Jackson who was determined one to run for the presidential position in the government of the United States
