| A | B |
|---|
| Claimed by United States as southern boundary of Texas | Rio Grande |
| Independent nation that was the object of British, Mexican, and French scheming in the early 1840s | Texas |
| Mexican military leader who failed to stop humiliating American invasion of his country | Santa Anna |
| Dashing explorer/adventurer who led the overthrow of Mexican rule in California after war broke out | John C. Fremont |
| Whig leader and secretary who negotiated an end to Maine boundary dispute in 1842 | Daniel Webster |
| American military hero who invaded northern Mexico from Texas in 1846-1847 | Zachary Taylor |
| Congressional author of the "spot resolutions" criticizing the Mexican War | Abraham Lincoln |
| Congressional author of resolution forbidding slavery in territory acquired from Mexico | David Wilmot |
