texas history spring semester examination review

Texas History

Spring semester examination review

Chapter 9: The Republic of Texas


• annexation • The process of one country taking over part or all of another


• Sam Houston • The first president of the Republic of Texas


• Lamar • The second president of the Republic of Texas


• Washington-on-the-Brazos

• The town where Texas declared its independence from Mexico


• Anson Jones • The Texas president who gained Texas’s annexation into the U.S.


• What was the main cash crop in Texas

• cotton


• What caused people to move to Texas and where did they originate from?

• Americans came for cheap land


• What were the reasons that Americans did not want to annex Texas at first?

• Americans didn’t want war with Mexico

• Many Americans opposed slavery

• Debt• Native Americans on

the frontier


• What problems did Sam Houston and Lamar face as president of Texas?

• Mexico• Indians• The issue of annexation• Texas’s debts• Problems with the Texas

army


• Why did Sam Houston try to cut government spending?

• To reduce Texas’s debts


• What was each Texas president’s position on annexation?

• Houston and Jones favored annexation

• Lamar opposed annexation

Chapter 10/11: Statehood/ Immigration 1845-1861


• Cession • The granting of land by one country to another


• Manifest Destiny • The belief that the U.S. had the right and duty to expand to the Pacific Ocean


• popular sovereignty • Allowing states to decide for themselves whether or not to permit slavery


• veto • To prevent the passage of a law


• judiciary • The branch of the government that resolves legal disputes and hands out justice


• James Pickney Henderson

• The first governor of Texas


• James K. Polk • President of the United States from 1844 - 1849


• In the southern border dispute of Texas, where did Mexico say was their border and where did the U.S. say the southern border of Texas was?

• Mexico ~ Nueces River• U.S.~ Rio Grande


• What was the Compromise of 1850?

• Set the western border of Texas


• What year did Texas (annex) become a state?

• 1845


• What was Manifest Destiny? Who was the President of the U.S. at the time?

• The god-given right for the U.S. to go from sea to shining sea

• James K. Polk


• Who did Texas model the states constitution after?

• The United States of America


• What was the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

• Ended the Mexican American War

• Mexico recognized Texas as part of the U.S. and the Rio Grande as the border


• What led Germans to immigrate to Texas and why did they want to establish colonies in Texas?

• A better life for themselves and their children; farmland

• Cheap land


• What hardships did Henri Castro’s colonists face in Texas?

• Poor soil and lack of farming techniques


• What other people from other countries came to Texas? What reasons brought them to Texas?

• People came looking for cheap land and to escape problems at home…– The U.S.– Mexico– France– Sweden/ Norway– Ireland– Poland– Hungary/ Czechoslovakia

texas history spring semester examination review

Documents

republic of texas slide

texas cotton slide

governor of texas slide

texas army slide

president of texas

annexation slide

mexico slide

texas annex