Tx History 3rd 9 WK DCA Review

In what year did the U.S. annex Texas?

• 1848

• 1845

• 1836

• 1846

What is the name given to the belief that the United States had the right and duty to expand across the North American continent?

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  Louisiana Purchase

• Manifest destiny 

•  Monroe Doctrine 

• Great Awakening

Why did the United States want Texas?

• To expand slavery

• For the oil

• Because it would be a very big state

• To keep it from Mexico

The Mexican-American war ended with 2 sides signing a treaty which took away half of Mexico's land. What was the name of the treaty?

• Treaty of Paris

• Treaty of Nantes

• Olive Branch Petition

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Which area was acquired by the United States as a result of the Mexican War in 1848?

• Texas Annexation

• Gadsden Purchase 

• Mexican Cession

• Oregon Territory

President known for acquiring much land during Manifest Destiny.

• Andrew Jackson

• Abraham Lincoln

• James K. Polk

• Benjamin Franklin

Why did the U.S. and Mexico go to war?

• The U.S. and Mexico disagreed over their boundary

• America's continued desire to achieve manifest destiny

• The U.S. recently annexed Texas

• All of these answers are correct

What were the 'black codes'?

• laws protecting the newly found rights of freed African Americans

• laws limiting the rights of African Americans passed by Southern governments after the Civil War

• another term for the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments

• secret laws instituted by the Ku Klux Klan

_____________ marks the anniversary of the day that General Gordon Granger delivered the news that all enslaved people in Texas are to be freed.

• Abolition Sunday

• Freedom Day

• Juneteenth

• Independence Day

Where did Robert E. Lee surrender to the Union Army and end the Civil War?

• Bull Run

• Appomattox

• Gettysburg

• Antietam