Match Each Description with the Item Below

question 45

Multiple Choice

Match each description with the item below.
-John Tyler

• A)was the young congressman who argued that Polk had maneuvered the Mexicans into attacking
• B)was the general-in-chief of the American army during the Mexican-American War and was called the "greatest living soldier" by the Duke of Wellington
• C)was elected vice president in 1840 but took over the presidency without having been elected to the office
• D)was one of the defenders at the Alamo who led the "regular army" soldiers, partly as a means to leave behind a checkered past in Alabama
• E)was the American who captured San Diego and Los Angeles after quarreling with General Stephen Kearny over who was in command of the army
• F)was the secretary of state who negotiated the treaty resolving the boundary between the northeastern United States and British Canada
• G)was known as "the Pathfinder" and became the most enthusiastic champion of American settlement
• in Mexican California and the Far West
• H)called himself the "Napoleon of the West" and suspended the Mexican national congress in the face of Texan rebelliousness
• I)founded a colony of European emigrants in California and sought to create a wilderness empire by putting Native Americans to work
• J)was a Franciscan friar who led the creation of a Catholic mission in San Diego, California

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Definitions:

American

Pertains to anything related to the United States of America, its people, culture, or national identity.

General Douglas MacArthur

General Douglas MacArthur was a prominent American military leader who played a significant role in the Pacific theater during World War II and the Korean War.

Cold War

The period of geopolitical tension and ideological conflict between the Soviet Union and its allies and the United States and its allies, roughly from the end of World War II in 1945 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.