Semester 2 Review

Why was 1845 significant to Texas history?

• Mexico achieved its independence from Spain that year.

• Texas declared its independence from Mexico that year.

• Texas seceded from the United States that year.

• Texas was annexed by the United States that year.

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

• Many Texans supported annexation because they were born in the U.S. and they wanted to be U.S. citizens again.

• Most Americans supported Texas annexation so that slavery would spread westward and 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 a boundary between Texas and Mexico.

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

• The Mexican government demanded the return of Texas from the United States.

Texas and Mexico disagreed on the boundary between themselves, with the two governments using different rivers as boundary markers. From which Mexican states did the disputed part of Texas, between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande, come?

• Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon

• Tamaulipas and Coahuila

• Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon and Coahuila

• Tamaulipas, Chihuahua, Nuevo Leon, and Coahuila

Which statement best explains why Texas seceded from the Union in 1861?

• Texas was an agricultural state with large, slaveholding plantations, whose owners controlled politics and voted to join the Confederacy.

• Texans, like most Southerners, believed they should support the abolition of slavery and seceded to keep that right.

• Texans opposed tariffs on imported slaves and therefore supported secession.

• Governor Sam Houston encouraged Texans to vote for secession to protect slavery in the state.

Which term completes the sentence above?

• Galveston

• Palmito Ranch

• Sabine Pass

• Vicksburg

Which of the following statements is supported by the chart above?

• The Confederate Army’s leaders were more skilled than those of the Union Army.

• The North’s industrial advantages made it unlikely the South would win the war.

• The North needed the support of European allies to produce weapons and ammunition.

• Sam Houston believed that Texans who voted for secession were traitors.

What was an important long-term political impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on Texas?

• After 1876, new laws limited the political rights that had first been gained by freedmen.

• Former Confederate officers and soldiers permanently lost their political rights.

• Freedmen continued to enjoy equal political and civil rights even after Reconstruction ended.

• The Ku Klux Klan was formed to defend the rights of all Texans.

Which name best completes this chart?

• Chief Satanta

• Quanah Parker

• Chief Victoria

• Robert Mackenzie

By 1869, Texas ratified the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments. What were the political and social effects of these amendments for Texans?

• African Americans continued to be denied the rights of citizens because of the Supreme Court decision of Dred Scott v. Sandford.

• All former enslaved persons were now able to vote in popular elections and were accepted equals.

• African Americans had a greater chance of representation in government than previously but still faced many obstacles.

• Most white Texans welcomed African-American equality and helped the freedmen run for political offices.