Texas Annexation, Civil War and Reconstruction 2025

Which of the Civil War battles in Texas proved to be the last battle of the Civil War?

• Battle of Palmito Ranch

• Battle of Waterloo

• Battle of Sabine Pass

• Battle of San Jacinto

Why were so few Civil War battles fought in Texas?  

• Texas was geographically at the farthest end of the Confederacy 
• the Texas Navy kept the Union army out of Texas for the entire war
• the Confederate army was superior to the Union army and prevented blockades
• Texas were already involved in battles with Native Americans on the frontier

-Fought along the Rio Grande River

-Took place after the surrender of the Confederacy

-Last military conflict associated with the Civil War

What battle is being described above?

• Battle of Gavleston

• Battle of Sabine Pass

• Battle of Palmito Ranch

• Battle of Monett's Ferry

What is one way the location and geography affected Texas during the Civil War?

• No trade was able to happen becuase of the border with Mexico

• No crops were planted in Texas during the Civil War

• Large regions in Texas were destroyed as a result of the war

• Important news didn't reach Texas until well after it was announced

What is one way the location and geography affected Texas during the Civil War?

• No trade was able to happen becuase of the border with Mexico

• No crops were planted in Texas during the Civil War

• Large regions in Texas were destroyed as a result of the war

• Important news didn't reach Texas until well after it was announced

California, Arizona, Wyoming, Utah,and Nevada were some of the states that were formed by what land given up by Mexico in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

• The Treaty Velasco

• The Annexation of Texas

• The Mexican Cession

• The Joint Resolution

What treaty ended the Mexican-American war?

• The Adams-Olness Treaty

• The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• The Treaty of Paris

• The NATO Treaty

What was one of the reasons many Americans wanted to annex Texas?

• Northern States wanted another slave state
• Oil production
• Manifest Destiny
• none of the above

Which sentence best describes Manifest Destiny?

• The United States should not acquire Texas.
• The united States needed to compete for trade with Asia.
• The United States was meant to share North America with England and France.
• the United States had the right to settle North America from coast to coast.

The Mexican Cession was the land given to the United States by Mexico after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. It included:

• Oregon and Texas

• California, Nevada, Utah, part of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming

• California, Florida, South Carolina, and Washington

• None of the above