Texas Annexation

What year was Texas annexed to the United States?

• 1819
• 1836
• 1845
• 1861

What was Texas Annexation?

• Texas becoming the 28th state of the United States
• Texas becoming a independent country
• Texas joining the Confederacy
• Texas joining Mexico

Why did Texas's annexation cause tension with Mexico?

• Mexicans feared that Texans would attack Tejanos
• Mexico was afraid of losing Texas as an ally
• Many Mexicans felt the America would try to take over Mexico through Texas
• Mexico wanted to take over Texas.

Which war happened because of Texas Annexation?

• Texas Revolution
• American Revolution
• US Mexican War
• Civil War

When the Republic of Texas gave up its independence, it joined the United States as a --

• free trade zone
• sovereign nation
• territory
• state

What is Manifest Destiny?

• Texas' future to reach the Pacific ocean.
• Americans' belief that it was their God given right to own the land from East to West, from the Atlantic to Pacific Ocean.
• An angel flying through the air from East to West.
• The progress of the White man

Texas was the ________ state to be annexed to the United States.

• 27th
• 15th
• 51st
• 28th

Which Texas president was the only president to also serve as governor in the state of Texas?

• Lamar
• Burnet
•  Houston
• Jones

The President most associated with Manifest Destiny was ---.

• Andrew Jackson
• Thomas Jefferson
• Abraham Lincoln
• James K. Polk

Since Texas became a state the head of its executive branch would be --

• the governor
• the president
• the senator
• the representative