The MexicanAmerican War, also known as the Mexican War and in Mexico the American intervention in Mexico, was an armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States (Mexico) from 1846 to 1848. It followed in the wake of the 1845 American annexation of the independent Republic of Texas, which Mexico still considered its northeastern province and a part of its territory after its "de facto" secession in the 1836 Texas Revolution a decade earlier.

After its Treaty of Cordoba with obtaining independence in 1821, from the Kingdom of Spain and its Spanish Empire as New Spain for the past 300 years, and a brief experiment with a monarchy government, Mexico became a republic in 1824. It was characterized by considerable instability, leaving it ill-prepared for international conflict only two decades later when war broke out in 1846. Native American raids in Mexico's sparsely settled north in the decades preceding the war prompted the Mexican government to sponsor migration from the U.S.A. on its northeast border (since 1803 with the Louisiana Purchase from the French Empire (France) of Emperor Napoleon I) to the Mexican province of Texas to create a buffer. However, the newly-named "Texians" revolted against the Mexican government of President / dictator Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana, who had usurped the Mexican constitution of 1824, in the subsequent 1836 Texas Revolution, creating a republic not recognized by Mexico, which still claimed it as part of its national territory. In 1845, the Texan Republic agreed to an offer of annexation by the U.S. Congress, and became the 28th state in the Union on December 29 that year. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. When did Mexico become a republic?
2. So, how long after that was the Mexican-American War?
3. Who were the parties to the Mexican-American War?
4. What was the time period of that war?
5. Did the United States annex anything?
6. What?
7. Did Mexico think it was part of Mexico?
8. What part?
9. When was the Texas Revolution?
10. Was Mexico ever a monarchy?
11. How long was it?
12. Before when?
13. Who was raiding Mexico in the north?
14. What was Mexico's attempted solution to those raids?
15. When did Texas become a US state?
16. What was it just before that?
17. What was the offer it took up from the US then?
18. Which French person was party to the Louisiana Purchase?
19. When was that?
20. What was a new name for Texans?
Answer: 1. 1824
2. 22 yearrs
3. United States of America and the United Mexican States
4. 1846 to 1848
5. Yes
6. the independent Republic of Texas
7. Yes
8. northeastern province
9. 1836
10. Yes
11. brief
12. 1824
13. Native Americans
14. to sponsor migration from the U.S.A. on its northeast border
15. 1845
16. Texan Republic
17. offer of annexation
18. Emperor Napoleon I
19. 1803
20. Texians

Frank was clever, but he never liked to work hard. He often said to his friends, "If you work hard, you will make a lot of money, but it is not so good. I want easy work and a lot of money. That's the most interesting thing in the world."So he could only be a thief. But he still thought it was too much work, so he only told his friends what to do and got money from them. One day, Frank sent one of his friends to a very large and beautiful house. He told him to get money from that rich family. It was evening, and a man and a girl were in the room. They were playing a duet on a piano. Then the thief came into the house. When he returned, Frank asked him what he had got. But he said, "I didn't take anything. That family can't have much money. You know, two people were playing on the same piano there. They did not have money to buy another piano." What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What did Frank dislike doing?
2. What did he want a lot of?
3. Where did he send one of his friends?
4. From whom did he tell the friend to get money?
5. Was it day or evening?
6. How many people were in the room?
7. Was it a man and a boy?
8. Who then?
9. What were they playing on?
10. What were they playing on it?
11. Did the thief end up taking anything?
12. How many pianos did the family have?
13. Was Frank clever or dumb?
Answer: 1. to work hard
2. money
3. to a large and beautiful house
4. a rich family
5. evening
6. two
7. no
8. a man and a girl
9. a piano
10. a duet
11. no
12. one
13. clever

Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington (CNN) -- It was the middle of the night in southern Afghanistan's Panjwai district when Haji Naim says he was awakened by the sound of barking dogs and gunshots.

Moments later, a man clothed in U.S. military fatigues and a T-shirt burst through the door of Naim's home and opened fire, hitting him in the neck, Naim testified early Saturday at a hearing for an Army soldier accused in a mass killing of Afghan civilians.

"I said 'What are you doing? What are you doing?' Naim told the court at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, near Tacoma, Washington, during a live satellite uplink from a base in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

"He didn't say anything ...He just started shooting."

Afghan anger kept U.S. agents from killing scene

Naim and his two sons were among the survivors of the March 11, 2012, rampage that military prosecutors allege was carried out by Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales.

Naim's testimony came amid the fifth day of an evidentiary hearing to determine whether there is enough evidence to support the military's case against Bales, who faces 16 counts of premeditated murder and six counts of attempted murder in the predawn attack.

The outcome of the Article 32 hearing will determine whether Bales, 39, is court-martialed, and whether he will face the death penalty.

Bales has not entered a plea in the case, though his attorneys have said Bales suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and suffered a traumatic brain injury during a prior deployment to Iraq. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. how many counts does he face?
2. what will happen to him, if found guilty?
3. what district was he in?
4. what woke him?
5. When did thid happen?
6. Does he have any conditions?
7. has he been tried yet?
8. was he found guity
9. who survived the attack/
10. who was woken up?
Answer:
1. 22 total
2. Possible death penalty.
3. Panjwai district
4. barking dogs and gunshots.
5. the middle of the night
6. Yes
7. Yes
8. Not yet
9. Naim and his two sons
10. Naim