Texas becoming a State
The number state that Texas became when it joined the United States?
What is the 28th?
The river that became the official border between Texas and Mexico after the US-Mexican War.
What is the Rio Grande?
The amount of money that the United State attempted to purchase Texas for one month before Texas joined the United States.
What is $5 million dollars?
The only people that were allowed to vote in the Republic of Texas.
What are white men and Tejano men?
The state where the soldiers that captured Santa Anna's leg were from.
What is Illinois?
The month, day, and year that Texas joined the United States.
What is December 29, 1845?
The US president that ordered 4000 troops to go to Texas to defend the US border.
Who is James Knox Polk?
The amount of money that the United States attempted to purchase New Mexico, Arizona, and California for one month before Texas joined the United States.
What is $25 million dollars?
The change made to the Constitution of Texas during Sam Houston's first presidency.
What is serving three years per presidential term instead of two?
What the note would say that Americans left on their doors when they moved to Texas.
What is GTT (Gone to Texas)?
The idea that was popular among Americans that it was the United States "obvious" and "unavoidable" future to expand from coast to coast.
What is Manifest Destiny?
What the US thought started the war and what Mexico though started the US-Mexican War.
What is...US: protecting the US border from Mexican retaliation for annexing Texas.
Mexico: the US just invaded Mexico with 4000 troops.
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The land purchase from Mexico in 1853 that finalized the border between the United States and Mexico.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
The border that Mexico claimed was the border between Texas and Mexico.
What is the Nueces River?
The amount of money the United States gave to Mexico for all the land between Texas and the Pacific Ocean after the US-Mexican War.
What is $15 million dollars?
The law passed in the United States that stated that if Texas joined the US (because of where Texas is located on the map) Texas would be a slave state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The Mexican leader that was defeated in two major battles and ended up abandoning Mexico City.
Who is Santa Anna?
The plan that gave a large chunk of Texas to the United States for $10 million dollars in order to help get Texas out of debt.
What is the Pearce Plan?
The US political party that most Texans affiliated themselves with.
What is the Democratic Party?
The amount of people living in Texas by 1860.
What is 600,000?
The four reasons why it took so long for Texas to join the United States.
What is 1. Mexico never granted Texas independence. 2. Annexing Texas into the United States would start a war with Mexico. 3. Texas would join the US as a slave state and needed a free state to join with it. 4. John Tyler was president in the early 1840's and could not get anything done because he did not have a political party.?
The treaty that officially ended the US-Mexican War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
The name given to the land that the United States received after the US-Mexican War.
What is the Mexican Cession?
The last president of the Republic of Texas and where he lived in Texas.
Who is Anson Jones and the Barrington Plantation?
The man that the president of the United States sent to the Mexican border with 4000 troops.
Who is Zachary Taylor?