Annexation
The process of being absorbed into another country
What is annexation?
The river the U.S. thought was the border Texas-Mexico
What is the Rio Grande River?
The idea that states had the authority to cancel/ignore federal laws
What is states rights?
Abraham Lincoln is elected during this election
What is the Election of 1860?
He is President during the Civil War
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The river that Mexico thought was the border for Texas-Mexico
Texans opinions about slavery
What is "They loved it"
What is the "Confederate States of America"?
He is President when Texas joins the U.S.
Who is James K. Polk
The President of Texas who favored annexation
Who is Sam Houston?
The process of moving westward
What is westward expansion?
The act of leaving a country/US
What is secession?
The year the Civil War began. Also the year that Texas left the U.S.
What is 1861?
Who is Sam Houston
The President of the U.S. when Texas was annexed
Who is James K. Polk?
The idea that U.S. had a right to expand from sea to shining sea
What is manifest destiny?
Texans' opinion about secession
What is "Hip hip hooray"
The number of states in the Confederate States of America
He believed in keeping the Union together
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The year Texas was annexed into the U.S.
What is 1845?
The treaty that ended the Mexican-American War
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?
The favoring of ones' own state/region over the country
What is Sectionalism?
Lincoln's original goal in the Civil War
What is "keep the Union together"?
He was a senator of Texas who did not believe in secession
Who is Sam Houston?