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Vocabulary
Texas Government
Mexican War
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo/
Compromise of 1850
Mexican Texans/
Native Americans
100
To prevent the passage of a law.
What is veto?
100
The three branches of government.
What are the legislative, executive, and judicial branches?
100
United States and Mexico.
What two countries fought in the Mexican War.
100
California, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado.
What states were formed from the Mexican Cession?
100
Jose Antonio Navarro.
Who was the only native Texan to serve during the 1845 State Constitutional Convention?
200
The belief that the United States had the right and the duty to expand to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
200
It changed from a republic to a state.
Why did Texas have to write a new constitution in 1845?
200
United States.
Who won the Mexican War?
200
$15 Million.
How much did the United States pay Mexico for the Mexican Cession?
200
Juan Nepomuceno Cortina.
Who was the Mexican Texan who fought against Texas Rangers for the rights of Tejanos?
300
The granting of land by one country to another.
What is cession?
300
Women, Native Americans, and African Americans.
What three groups did not receive suffrage?
300
Battle of Palo Alto.
What was the only Mexican War battle north of the Rio Grande?
300
Rio Grande.
Where did Mexico agree the southern border of Texas was?
300
The land belonged to the whole group, not individuals.
What did Native Americans believe about the land?
400
A system in which a national and a local government share power.
What is federalism?
400
Thomas Rusk and Sam Houston.
Who were Texas's first U.S. senators?
400
Rio Grande and Nueces.
Between which two rivers did the United States and Mexico dispute territory?
400
Western.
What border of Texas was fixed with the Compromise of 1850?
400
Moved to Indian Territory.
What happened to Native Americans in 1859?
500
Allowing states to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
500
Thomas Pinckney Henderson.
Who was Texas's first governor?
500
James K. Polk.
Who was the U.S. President during the Mexican War?
500
$10 Million.
How much did Texas receive for giving up its claims to part of New Mexico?
500
Alabama-Coushatta.
What is the only Native American group allowed to stay in Texas?