Western Expansion and conflict

Foreign recognition was important to the Republic of Texas because ​ ​ (a)  

• it would lead to annexation by the United States
• Houston wanted to give Texas back to Mexico.
• Houston wanted to sell Texas to Great Britain.

What was a major challenge for the Republic of Texas under Sam Houston?

• conflicts about annexation

• pay the national debt

• worried about invasion from Mexico

• conflicts with other countries

The U.S. was hesitant to annex Texas because-

• the US did not need land

• Canada wanted to grant part of its territory

• the US did not want to anger Mexico, which still considered Texas as part of Mexico

1845 is an important date for Texas history because

• Texas was added as a state of the U.S.

• Texas won its independence

• Texas becomes a republic

• Texas gets recognition as a Republic

​ (a)   is a belief in the 1840s that the United States was meant to reach westward across North America

• Manifest Destiny
• Annexation Treaty
• Empresario
• Treaty of Paris

What is #7 on the map?

• Land gained from Mexico through the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 for $15 Million

• Land gained from France in 1803 for $15 Million

• Land gained by annexing the Republic of Texas in 1845

• Land gained by treaty with Great Britain in 1846 that splits it 50-50

Texas was annexed by the U.S. and becomes the ​ (a)  

• 28th  state
• 17th state
• 36th state
• 23rd state

​ (a)   believed in Manifest Destiny and promised to add the Oregon Territory and Texas​ ​if elected president of the U.S.

• James K. Polk
• Anson Jones
• Sam Houston

Southern states plantation owners relied on ​ (a)   to do the hard labor in growing cotton.

• slaves
• cowboys
• planters
• Europeans

Reorder the following

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Texas is annexed by U.S.

• U.S. Mexican War

• Mexican Cession