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SocSci Cities
Cities
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Mexican port city in the state of Guerrero that is important for trade with China | Acapulco |
| Second city that Jose Maria Morelos captured | Acapulco |
| Important to General Juan Alvarez | Acapulco |
| Capital of Texas after American annexation | Austin |
| City-state that hired the Mexica as mercenaries | Azcaptzalco |
| Classic Maya site that lasted until 1225 | Chichen Itza |
| Town in which Jose Maria Morelos held a constitutional convention | Chilpancingo |
| Border city across the Rio Grande from El Paso, TX that was the first city to be captured by Orozco and Villa during the Revolution | Cuidad Juarez |
| Slum city near Mexico City that became the fourth most populous city in Mexico | Cuidad Nezahualcoyotl |
| City that Pancho Villa raided in order to take out his military frustrations on the U.S. | Columbus, New Mexico |
| Mayan city located in Honduras | Copan |
| Location of Plutarco Elias Calles's home | Cuernavaca |
| New city built in 1884 with American-style architecture | Gomez Palacios |
| The last Moorish bastion in Spain that fell to Christian forces in 1492 | Granada |
| First city that Miguel Hidalgo's forces captured | Guanajuato |
| Seat of Texan government in 1836 | Harrisburg |
| American city with noticeable Mayan population | Houston |
| Village in the state of Michoacan where Lazaro Cardenas was born | Jiquilpan |
| Capital of California while under Mexican control and home to the second-largest Mexican population in the world next to Mexico City | Los Angeles |
| Spain's trading outpost in the Philippines during the colonial period | Manila |
| Fortified town across the Rio Grande from where James Polk sent American troops | Matamoros |
| Spanish city constructed on the ruins of Tenochtitlan | Mexico City |
| Former port of entry into the U.S. for Colombian drugs and an American city with a noticeable Mayan population | Miami |
| Industrial city in the state of Nuevo-Leon and the center of the Monterrey Group and much opposition to Cardenas and radicalism | Monterrey |
| First city that Jose Maria Morelos's forces captured | Oaxaca |
| Mayan city located in Mexico | Palenque |
| City that Jose Maria Morelos failed to capture, thereby failing to encircle Mexico City | Puebla |
| City in which Father Miguel Hidalgo assembled his army | Queretaro |
| City where Liberal forces captured Maximilian I in 1867 | Queretaro |
| City in which the Constitution of 1917 was drafted and the first PNR meeting was held | Queretaro |
| Capital of California after it was annexed by the U.S. | Sacramento |
| Largest city in Texas in 1836 and the site of Texan defense against Mexico | San Antonio |
| City to which Francisco Madero traveled after his release from prison | San Antonio |
| Dividing point of one invasion route during the Mexican-American War | Santa Fe, NM |
| Hispaniola city that was the original location of the "Audienca" | Santo Domingo |
| Beginning point of one invasion route during the Mexican-American War | St. Louis, MO |
| Weakest part of the Mexica triple alliance | Tlacopan, aka Tacuba |
| Port city to which Woodrow Wilson sent troops in an attempt to oust Huerta from power | Tampico |
| Prinicpal city of the Mexica in the triple alliance | Tenochtitlan |
| Part of the Mexica triple alliance | Texcoco |
| City in the state of Puebla where Carranza was assasinated | Tlaxcalantongo |
| New city built in 1833 with American-style architecture and the second city captured by Orozco and Villa during the Revolution | Torreon |
| Capital of Toltec civilization | Tula |
| Approximate northern boundary of the Aztec empire on the Atlantic coast | Tuxpan |
| Most important Mexican Atlantic port and the site of Winfield Scott's invasion of Mexico | Veracruz |
| Location of the Liberal government during the War of Reform | Veracruz |
| Site of American attempt to block German shipments to Mexico in 1913 | Veracruz |
| Approximate northern boundary of the Aztec empire on the Pacific coast | Zacatula |
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