Structure of Government
The Mexican War
Compromise of 1850
Life in Texas
Misc.
100
James Pinkney Henderson
Who is the first Governor of Texas?
100
The idea that the United States had the right and duty to expand to the Pacific Ocean.
What is manifest destiny?
100
Compromise of 1850
What is kept the balance between free and slave states?
100
$2 million was put aside for this from the Compromise of 1850.
What is funding for public schools?
100
Century Texas was annexed into the United States.
What is 19th century?
200
The basic idea of the Texas Constitution.
What is that people should control the government?
200
General who was able to capture Mexico City.
Who is General Winfield Scott?
200
How Texas obtained its present day shape.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
200
Believed that the land belonged to the people as a whole.
What is Native Americans?
200
The number of branches in the Texas government.
What is three?
300
Sam Houston and Thomas Jefferson Rusk
Who are TX first senators?
300
Name of the treaty that ended the Mexican War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?
300
Republican Party
What is broke away from Whigs and were against slavery?
300
Caddoes and Commanches were sent to these to live in 1854.
What are reservations?
300
Were allowed to vote in Texas in the 19th century.
Who is white males?
400
David Kaufman and Timothy Pillsbury
Who are the first TX state representatives?
400
The US diplomat sent to Mexico to negotiate.
John Slidell
400
A states permission to decide for themselves.
What is popular sovereignty?
400
Settled the town of Castroville.
Who are the French?
400
$15 million dollars.
What Mexico received in return for Mexican cession land?
500
The political party that the Republicans broke away from.
What is the Whig Party?
500
The two rivers that were the disputed boarders between Mexico and Texas.
What is Nueces and Rio Grande?
500
Opposed being a part of Texas due to slavery.
What is New Mexico?
500
To change one's customs and habits to those of the surrounding culture.
What is to assimilate?
500
Manumission means ..........
What is the freeing of slaves?
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