Fascinating Facts • United States soldiers took the same route that Spanish explorer Hernando Cortés and his men had taken more than three hundred years before to defeat the Aztec Empire CONFLICT IN THE AMERICAN WEST • Zachary Taylor was not the only President who served in the Mexican War Ulysses S Grant and Franklin Pierce also served in that war • After the Mexican War, many people in Latin America called the United States “El Coloso del Norte,” or the colossus of the North Genre Nonfiction Comprehension Skill Compare and Contrast Text Features • Map • Chart • Captions Scott Foresman Social Studies BY RENA KORB ISBN 0-328-14863-6 ì