Texas Constitution
The place where delegates met to write and adopt the Texas Constitution
What is the convention of 1845?
Belief that the U.S. should own all of the land from coast to coast
What is Manifest Destiny?
The country that won the U.S. - Mexican war
What is the United States of America?
Became a free state under the Compromise of 1850
California
#1 Crop in Texas
What is Cotton
#1 group of immigrants coming to Texas
What is Germans
The direction that the U.S. was expanding
What is West?
This caused division between the North and the South
He was the only Tejano to serve as a delegate in the Convention of 1845
Who is Jose Antonio Navarro?
The United states believed this river should be the border between Texas and Mexico
What is the Rio Grande?
Became the official border of Texas
What is the Rio Grande?
Put in place to address the slavery crisis in the United States
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This Invention let to an increase in enslaved labor
What is Cotton Gin
Brought the Lutheran Religion to Texas
What is Germans
The length of the U.S. Mexican War
What is 2 years?
This would seperate the seeds from the cotton
What is cotton gin
Protected individual freedoms
What is the bill of rights?
What is Brownsville?
The treaty that officially ended the U.S. Mexican war
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Made it a crime to help run away slaves
What is the Fugitive Slave act of 1850?
This is where cotton was shipped
What is Northern states and Europe
Brought the Kolaches, Polka, and horns
What is Czech
The General that led troops to Texas to fight against Mexico at the battle of Palo Alto
Who is General Zachary Taylor?
provides individuals and businesses with the freedom to produce and sell goods to consumers
What is free enterprise economy
Able to vote in Texas in 1845
What is white males over the age of 21?
what is border dispute and U.S. expansion?
Vocabulary term for the territory that the U.S. gained from Mexico under to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
What is Mexican Cession?
These territories could vote on becoming a free or slave state
What is Western territories?
Had the most developed port and trading center
What is Galveston
The availability of this brought immigrants to Texas
What is Cheap Land
The Texas Ranger who helped captured Mexico City
Who is Jack Coffee Hays?
Influenced Tejano music
what is accordion?
Four laws included in the Texas constitution
Mexico believed this was the border between Texas and Mexico
What is the Nueces river?
The Mexican Cession included these present day states
What is New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Texas and Colorado?
Added to the slavery crisis in the United States
What is Mexican Cession?
Texas operates under this economy
What is Free Enterprise System
Main reason for European Immigration
What is Economic reasons
The vocabulary term for approving a document
What is ratified?
Affected by the potato famine
What is Irish immigrants