Chapter 15 Test Review 7th Grade The Lone Star State

One reason the Whig Party was weak in Texas was because it opposed expanding _______________ in the Western territories.

• immigration

• slavery

• boarders

• taxes

British leaders ____________ Texas annexation because they thought they could obtain better trading terms with the Republic of Texas.

• opposed

• agreed

• did way with

• supported

African Americans, Native Americans, and ___________ had no voting rights under the Texas state constitution of 1845.

• Tejanos

• Women

• Men

• Mexicans

After the U.S.–Mexican War, Mexican Texans faced ____________ while competing for land. 

• discrimination

• law suits

• prejudice

• intolerance

Sam Houston, in his first term as president of Texas, _________ the idea that Texas should join the United States.

• favored

• disagreed with

• agreed with

• cared less about

_____________ called for Texas to give up its claim to land in New Mexico for $10 million in 1850.

• treaty of annexation in 1844

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Gadsden Purchase

• Pearce Plan

___________ area of southern New Mexico and Arizona purchased by the United States from Mexico. 

• Gadsden Purchase

• Mexican Cession

• Pearce Plan

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

____________ agreement that called for the United States to pay the Republic of Texas’ debts of $12 million.

• Gadsden Purchase

• Pearce Plan

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• treaty of annexation in 1844

________ peace agreement signed on February 2, 1848, after the U.S.–Mexican War.

• Mexican Cession

• Pearce Plan

• Gadsden Purchase

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

_______________ area surrendered by Mexico after the U.S.–Mexican War.

• Gadsden Purchase

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• treaty of annexation in 1844

• Mexican Cession