The Cause of the War/ the War
The Alamo was _____ before it was a camp
A Mission
Was Texas a Slave state or a Free state
Slave State
Thing you had to do for a Texan to become a Mexican citizen(involved slaves)
end the practice of slavery
The people where were angry when Texas was annexed into the United States
Texas state tree
Pecan Tree
Battle in which they shouted "Remember the Alamo"
The Battle of San Jacinto
What did mexico do in order to stop Texans from rebelling?
Arrested Stephen F. Austin
Things you had to do for a Texan to become a Mexican citizen(involved documents)
file legal documents in Spanish
Where did the US gain the states they needed?
Mexican American War, Missouri Act, Kansas-Nebraska Act
Monarch Butterfly
Name of the man that asked the government if they would make Texas an independent state (First name, Middle Initial, and Last Name)
Stephen F. Austin
Who Helped Texas become part of the Union
President John Tyler with the help of President elect James K. Polk
Law that Mexico made that affected BOTH Americans and Texans
Law that stopped Immigration from Texas to the US.
How Texas entering the Union affected Slavery
Texas entering the Union as a slave state which made it so the union was unbalanced.
Blue Lacy
City where the phrase "Come and Take it" was coined
Gonzales
Why did the US original not annex the United States into the Union?
President Jackson feared many people would be angry at him for admitting another slave state into the union and he did not want to provoke Mexico
In order for a Texan to become a Mexican citizen you had to do this(affected your religion)
convert to Roman Catholicism
Because of the Unbalanced Union, the United States had to what?
Annex more Free states to make the Union balanced again
State flower of Texas
Bluebonnet
Year in which Mexico gained their Independence from Spain
1821
How does Texas Independence fit into Manifest Destiny
Once Texas separated from Mexico, Texas was up for grabs and because it was the United State’s Manifest Destiny to expand into Texas they grabbed Texas after some back and forth discussions.
Treaty in which caused Mexico to stop diplomatic relations with the United States
Treaty of Annexation
How Texas entering the US affected us long term(Three Things)
They have the second best economy in the US, Texas makes an average of 100 billion$ a year, Texas is now a free state
On the seal on Texas what two branches are on the seal
Live Oak and Olive