Republic of Texas
1. What year was Texas annexed by the United States?
1845
6. What was the name of the Treaty that ended the U.S.-Mexican War?
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
11. What is Manifest Destiny?
The United States believed they had the God-given right to expand west to the Pacific Ocean
16. What side of the Civil War was Texas on: Union or Confederacy?
Confederacy
21. What was “Reconstruction” in terms of US history?
The era after the Civil War when the United States was rebuilding and the South was rejoining the Union
2. Who was the first AND third president of the Republic of Texas?
Sam Houston
7. What river did Mexico believe was the border between Mexico and Texas during the U.S.-Mexican War?
Nueces River
12. Name two effects of the invention of the cotton gin.
Cotton became easier and faster to produce
The demand for slavery increased
17. What was the last battle of the Civil War?
Battle of Palmito Ranch
22. What was the 15th Amendment?
Gave all men the right to vote
3. What does “annexation” mean?
When a country gains a new piece of territory
8. What was the main cause of the U.S.-Mexican War?
Border dispute between Mexico and Texas
13. Why did abolitionists in the United States NOT want to annex Texas?
Texas was a slave state and would upset the balance of slave states and free states
18. How did Sam Houston feel about secession?
He was against secession
23. What were Jim Crow Laws? Give an example.
Jim Crow Laws enforced segregation in the South. An example is separate water fountains for people of different races.
4. What was Mirabeau Lamar’s policy towards the Cherokee Native Americans?
Lamar wanted to remove Native Americans from Texas
9. What three things did the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo do?
Mexico stopped claiming Texas
Border between Mexico and Texas was the Rio Grande River
Mexico sold the Mexican Cession territory to the US for $15 million
14. How did Manifest Destiny lead to an increase in slavery in the United States?
Slavery spread to new territories added in the west
19. Name three reasons that Texas seceded from the Union in 1861.
Love for Texas (sectionalism)
State’s rights
Slavery
24. What was the purpose of Freedman’s Bureau?
To provide basic needs to freed slaves in the South (food, clothes, shelter, jobs)
5. Name three differences between the policies of President Houston and President Lamar.
Houston wanted Texas to be annexed by the US, Lamar wanted to stay independent
Houston wanted peace with Native Americans, Lamar wanted to remove them
Houston wanted peace with Mexico, Lamar attacked Mexican territory
10. How did the U.S.-Mexican War help the US achieve Manifest Destiny?
The US gained the land known as the Mexican Cession, so they were able to expand west all the way to the Pacific Ocean
15. What was the purpose of laws such as the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850?
To keep an even balance of slave states and free states in the US
20. What happened at the Battles of Galveston?
The Union captured the port of Galveston after blockading it in 1862, the Confederacy took it back in 1863
25. Name two effects that Reconstruction had on southern states.
States had to pass the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
End of slavery, beginning of the sharecropping system
Rise of segregation and Jim Crow Laws