The Spot Resolution Analysis

Students read a short passage on the Mexican-American War, Lincoln's Spot Resolution, and answer 12 questions including 2 large, multi-part, reflection/discussion questions. The activity concludes with a half academic/half creative question. This would be great for a sub! The answers are included where appropriate.

Sample questions include:
--What role did Manifest Destiny play in violence erupting between Mexico and America?
--What was the thought process of the congressmen who did not want to go to war?
-- Re-write this in your own words to demonstrate understanding: but even then we forbore to take redress into our own hands until Mexico herself became the aggressors.
--Explain the “wholly unjustifiable pretexts” that Lincoln refers to in the 3rd paragraph.

You might be interested in these related items:
Mexican-American War Review Activity
President Polk Activity
Mexican American War Letter to the Editor
Westward Expansion Activity

Consider the bundle to save!
Manifest Destiny and Westward Expansion Bundle
Texas History Bundle--Annexation and the Mexican American War