Unit 7 review

Texans based their new constitution on

• Mexicos Constitution

• Decleration of Independence

• U.S. Constitution

• Spains Peace Treaty

What year did Texas become a part of the U.S.?

• 1820

• 1836

• 1845

• 1852

In the first years of the new state of Texas, only white males [over age 21] could

• have a job

• have a bank account

• vote

• inherit property

Popular sovereignty means

• document that separates our government into 3 branches

• document that describes the powers of government

• belief that the U.S. would expand across North America

• idea that political power belongs to the people

Which factor caused Irish immigrants to settle in Texas during the 1840s?

•  Religious persecution

• Famine

• Political unrest

• Scarcity of land

What factor MOST motivated people to settle in Texas in the mid-1800s?

• Cheap farmland

• They were paid to move to Texas

• Gold

• Texas became a State

The boundary dispute between the U.S. and Mexico was simple. The U.S. claimed that the Rio Grande River was the border, but Mexico insisted it was the _________ River.

• Arkansas

• Sabine

• Nueces

• San Antonio

U.S. troops are sent to the Rio Grande, and the Mexican-American war begins

• December 29, 1845

• March 2, 1848

• April, 1846

• March 26, 1846

What is the name of the treaty that ended the Mexican-American war on March 2, 1848?

• Treaty of Velasco

• Treaty of Paris

• Treaty of Mexico City

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

In what event did Texas pay off its remaining public debt by giving up a large amount of its land to the U.S.?

• the Land-Debt Agreement

• the Public Land Debate

• the Texas Debt Relief

• the Compromise of 1850