Match Each Description with the Item Below

Multiple Choice

Match each description with the item below.
-John
A. Sutter

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