Early Statehood Review

Which of the following best describes the era of Early Statehood in Texas history?

• Civil war
• Expanding and population growth
• Fighting everyone
• Constitutional period

What was a primary reason that the United States did not want to annex Texas in 1837?

• Debt
• War with Mexico
• Slavery
• United States doesn't like Texas

Why did many Texans favor annexation to the United States?

• Debts would be paid
• They didnt favor Annexation 
• being a U.S. State was a goal

What was the NOT an outcome of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

• The United States gained large amounts of land

• the border was made at the Rio Grande

• Peace with Mexico was made

• the U.S. control all of mexico

Revolution : the Republic of Texas =
: _________ : State of Texas

• Annexation
• Mexican American War
• Polk becomes Oresident

Slave ownership in Texas occurred mainly in which areas of the state?

• North
• North and West
• East and West
• South and East

Which democratic principle of the Texas Constitution reflects the will of the people?

• Republicanism
• Individual rights
• Popular sovereignty

A newspaper article ran this article the day after Congress declared war on Mexico. “There is at last-our pulses beat quickly with the thought- an opportunity to pay off a little of the debt of vengeance (revenge) which has been accumulating since the massacre of the Alamo.. At Goliad, and at Mier…”
Why were Texans so excited about the war with Mexico?

• Many Texans believed that the war with Mexico would give them revenge for the deaths of their countrymen who died during the Texas Revolution.
• Because they like fighting
• They wanted to take all of Mexico's land

Which of the following statements is an example of a political effect of the Mexican War?

• The two nations signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, agreeing that the Rio Grande was the southern border of Texas.
• The U.S. completed the idea of Manifest Destiny
• The United States would have no political effect
• Not all Texans were pleased with the results of the war

What was the outcome of the treaty of Hildalgo

• Peace was made with Native Americans
• Texas gained independance
• Americans made Texas a state
• Mexico and America made peace