Unit 6 Review

I was the captain of the Texas Rangers

• Sam Houston

• Jim Bowie

• Wyatt Earp

• Jack Coffee Hays

I served in the Texas Senate and worked for Tejano rights.

• Mirabeau Lamar

• Anson Jones

• Jose Antonio Navarro

• Billy Bob Thornton

Manifest Destiny was the belief that:

• The United States should be the first ones to the moon

• The United States should take over France

• United States should takeover Mexico and Canada

• United States should expand their territory to the Pacific Ocean

Two issues that hindered the Republic of Texas were:

• Conflicts with Mexico and debt problems

• Native American treaties and Texas Rangers

• Representative government and taxes

• Slavery and lack of a military

A primary obstacle to the U.S. admitting Texas as a new state was:

• Texas was a capitalist republic

• Texas was a slave state

• Texas had its own Army and Navy

• The majority of Texans were loyal to Mexico

Another obstacle in the annexation of Texas was a fear of:

• Poor effects on the economy

• Conflicts with Mexico

• Native American Rebellion

• The Compromise of 1850

In 1850, the people across the United States all agreed on the issue of slavery.

• True

• False

The Compromise of 1850 set the border between Texas and New Mexico and it declared California to be:

• The new capital

• A non-slave state

• A Mexican territory

• A part of Texas

Shortly after the United States annexed Texas as the 28th state, this conflict began

• Revolutionary War

• Cordova Rebellion

• Trojan War

• U.S. Mexico War

The treaty which ended the U.S. Mexico War was the_______.

• Treaty of Sabine Pass

• Treaty of Appomattox

• Treaty of Paris

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo