Question
1.
What did Mexico do in 1830 that angered many Texans?
Mexico set the border between Texas and the United States at the Rio Grande River.
Mexico ended a tax on goods imported from the United States.
Mexico stopped all immigration from the United States.
Mexico began to accept non-Catholics into the Texas Territory.
2.
Which event directly triggered the Texas independence movement?
Mexican troops tried to seize a cannon held by Texas in Gonzales.
Santa Anna was elected president of Mexico.
Stephen Austin was arrested.
Mexico banned immigration from the United States.
3.
For what reason was Texas not immediately annexed into the United States?
Texas did not have any fertile land.
The U.S. Congress didn't want to further upset Mexico.
The United States was much more interested in New Mexico than Texas.
It would have upset the balance between free and slave states.
4.
What caused Americans to begin to want to acquire the New Mexico Territory?
the promise of fertile land
a desire to bring Christianity to the Indigenous Peoples living there
Trading on the Santa Fe Trail
a huge hurricane hitting Georgia
5.
What was President James Polk's primary reason for wanting to add California and New Mexico to the United States?
to acquire better farmland for the country
to mine for gold
to spread Christianity
to fulfill Manifest Destiny
What did Mexico do in 1830 that angered many Texans?
Mexico set the border between Texas and the United States at the Rio Grande River.
Mexico ended a tax on goods imported from the United States.
Mexico stopped all immigration from the United States.
Mexico began to accept non-Catholics into the Texas Territory.
2.
Which event directly triggered the Texas independence movement?
Mexican troops tried to seize a cannon held by Texas in Gonzales.
Santa Anna was elected president of Mexico.
Stephen Austin was arrested.
Mexico banned immigration from the United States.
3.
For what reason was Texas not immediately annexed into the United States?
Texas did not have any fertile land.
The U.S. Congress didn't want to further upset Mexico.
The United States was much more interested in New Mexico than Texas.
It would have upset the balance between free and slave states.
4.
What caused Americans to begin to want to acquire the New Mexico Territory?
the promise of fertile land
a desire to bring Christianity to the Indigenous Peoples living there
Trading on the Santa Fe Trail
a huge hurricane hitting Georgia
5.
What was President James Polk's primary reason for wanting to add California and New Mexico to the United States?
to acquire better farmland for the country
to mine for gold
to spread Christianity
to fulfill Manifest Destiny
Answers
GPT-4o mini
1. Mexico stopped all immigration from the United States.
2. Mexican troops tried to seize a cannon held by Texas in Gonzales.
3. It would have upset the balance between free and slave states.
4. Trading on the Santa Fe Trail.
5. to fulfill Manifest Destiny.
2. Mexican troops tried to seize a cannon held by Texas in Gonzales.
3. It would have upset the balance between free and slave states.
4. Trading on the Santa Fe Trail.
5. to fulfill Manifest Destiny.