Texas History: 4th Six-Weeks Review

The financial problems and conflicts with Mexico and Native Americans led Houston and most Texans to -

• to support U.S. annexation (become a state)

• raise a larger army and and navy

• spend more money on schools

Which statement best describes population growth during early Texas statehood?

• The Tejano population increased because many had purchased farms and ranches during the U.S.-Mexican war.

• The population growth of Texas slowed down because most European immigrants refused to go there.

• Large numbers of Northerners settled in Texas to start to new businesses.

• The population of Texas increased and included Tejanos, European immigrants, farmers from nearby Southern states, and enslaved people.

The Compromise of 1850 —

• allowed slavery in California

• stopped the transport of fugitive slaves

• settled land claims between Texas and New Mexico

• returned western lands to Mexico

Which statement best explains how a belief in “Manifest Destiny” influenced the U.S. annexation of Texas?

• Many Texans supported annexation because they thought it would bring new opportunities to settle on the frontier of West Texas.

• Most of those believing in “Manifest Destiny” hoped for slavery to spread westward in order to increase the number of slave states in the United States.

• Many Americans supported Texas statehood because they were eager to expand the United States to the Pacific Ocean.

• Americans saw Texas as a place to develop new factories and mills to support economic growth in the United States.

Which of the following was a direct cause of the U.S.-Mexican War?

• The Mexican government wanted to exercise control over the government of Texas.

• There was a dispute over the location of the boundary between Texas and Mexico.

• The Mexican government protested the treatment of Mexican citizens in Texas.

• The Mexican government demanded the return of Texas to Mexico.

Which issue faced Texas and other Americans after the United States gained new territories from Mexico in 1848?

• Whether to permit slavery in the new territories

• How to pay Mexico for these acquisitions

• Whether to share these territories with Great Britain

• Whether to make Spanish a second official language

How was Texas affected by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

• Texas was given 10 million dollars by the U.S. government to pay for land acquired from Mexico.

• The treaty abolished the institution of slavery in both Texas and New Mexico.

• Texas gave all its remaining public lands to the federal government of the United States.

• Mexico officially recognized Texas as part of the United States and accepted the Rio Grande as its border.

In the years before the Civil War, people in the North and the South focused on what would benefit their regions rather than the nation. This idea is called

• states’ rights

• federalism

• protectionism

• sectionalism

The issue of raising tariffs divided the North and the South. Most Southerners were

• in favor of high tariffs because they would benefit the South’s industries.

• in favor of high tariffs because they would help pay off the public debt in states like Texas.

• opposed to high tariffs because they would benefit the North’s industries.

• opposed to high tariffs because they would increase the price of goods imported into the South.

Which of the following headlines would have most likely appeared in a newspaper in 1861?

• “Oil Discovered at Spindletop”

• “Texas Secedes from the Union”

• “LBJ Elected President”

• “Texans Massacred at the Alamo”