If Texas joined the United States, this would help keep Texans safe.
What is the US Army?
100
The President of the United States when Texas became a state.
Who is James K. Polk?
100
Which country saw Texas joining the US as an act of War?
Who is Mexico?
100
A written agreement between two sides.
What is a treaty?
200
The Alamo was constructed as a ________ , not a military outpost.
What is a church.
200
Americans were hesitant about allowing Texas into the union because they didn't want to pay Texas' ______?
What is debt?
200
This is the word that means making an area part of a country.
What is annexation?
200
Mexico and the United States disagreed about where this was located.
What is the boundary of Texas and Mexico?
200
A small Mexican village near Mexico City where leaders met to discuss peace between Mexico and the US.
What is Guadalupe Hildago?
300
He was the leader of the defenders at the Alamo.
Who is Travis?
300
Texas was this for nine years.
How long was Texas a republic?
300
He was the 4th and final president of Texas.
Who is Anson Jones?
300
The first major battle of the war between Mexico and US occurred here.
Where is Palo Alto?
300
In the treaty, this was named as the border between the Texas and Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande?
400
Santa Anna surprised the Texans by arriving in this month.
What is Febuary?
400
President Houston made these with the Indians to help keep peace between the Texans and the Indians.
What are treaties?
400
On December 29, 1845 Texas joined the United States as this.
What is the 28th state in the US?
400
This special group of men played an important part in the war as brave scouts and fighters.
Who were the Texas Rangers?
400
The United States received more than half a million square miles of land including California, Utah, Nevada, and parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming in exchange for this amount of money.
What is $15 million.
500
This song, "El Deguyo", was played for the Alamo defenders. Its meaning is ...
What is no quarter.
500
This Texas president did not honor the treaties made by Sam Houston with the Indians.
Who is President Lamar?
500
As part of the agreement in allowing Texas to join the US, Texas was allowed to keep what legal?
What is slavery?
500
In 1847 General Winfield Scott led the US Army and Texas Rangers into this city and captured it, shocking the Mexicans, and eventually leading to peace talks.
What is Mexico City?
500
This agreement ended the war between Mexico and the US.