TX and Mexico
Mexico wanted which river to be its border
TX wanted what border
Nueces River - MX
Rio Grande - TX
What was TX's main export
cotton
president at the time
Abraham Lincoln
How many battles were fought in TX?
3
Flaw of the Reconstruction
Did not give enough rights/ freedom to African Americans
TX wanted to secede from the US because
Fed gov no longer protected the interest of Texans
slavery - population
Compare the supplies of the Confederates and the Union
Confederates: SOUTH: not too much b/c they focused on farming
Union: NORTH: Industry, 80% factories, Railroads
General of the Confederate Army
Robert E. Lee - SOUTH
blockade runners
would go around blockades - dangerous - to get supplies
The black codes defined labor.
People were arrested if they did not work, disobeyed, were absent or destroyed property.
What was its effect in the Reconstruction?
Although slavery was abolished, the African Americans faced harsh laws that limit their rights/ freedom.
1. "In 1837 the panic began. Hundreds of banks and businesses failed. Thousands lost their lands. For about five years the United States was wracked by the worst depression thus far in its history."
Based on this, why would the US not want the TX annexation?
TX had a lot of debt that might weaken the US economy
3 branches of Gov
Legislative
Judicial
executive
General of the Union Army?
General Ulysses S Grant - North
Trans-Mississippi Department
Transportation through the Mississippi
Popular sovereignty is
states choosing to allow slavery or not
Many men served TX, one leader wrote the constitution, and fought for independence; as well as served as the secretary of war.
What can you summarize about the people of TX?
TX had strong leaders to guide them to statehood
People of TX played a key role in the War
NEVER BACK DOWN!
The governemnt could not stop the fights between settlers and the American Indians because
Differences -> fights were common
Most of the War was fought in
Near the Gulf Coast
(NOT many battles in TX)
The Great Hanging
unionist in the South were charged with Treason - hanged
sharecropper
50-50 profit- farmer & land owner
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Ended the war between Mexico and Texas
Compromise of 1850
California = free state
W border established
Popular sovereignty
Fugitive slave act
"There shall be firm and universal peace between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic, and between their respective countries, territories, cities, towns, and people, without exception of places or persons . . ."
What is this saying about the US and MX?
The treaty ended the US-MX War
After Lee surrenders
political - Texas (S) was put under military rule at first
13 & 14 amendment
13- abolish slavery
14- citizenship