Early Statehood Day 3 Assignment

What is the title of the map?

Which region of Texas saw the most fighting?

Why did the fighting only last for two years?

How do you think geographic features such as the Gulf of Mexico, mountains, and rivers affected the war?

Which statements explain how the Compromise of 1850 helped to deal with the issue of slavery? Select TWO correct answers.

• The U.S. Congress wrote the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, making it a crime to help runaway slaves.
• People living in New Mexico would vote to determine whether to become a free or slave state.
• Texas received money for parts of western and northern New Mexico after banning slavery.
• Southerners and their slaves rushed to New Mexico to expand the practice of slavery.
• Texas agreed to move the western border back to the Nueces River in order to expand the slave trade.

What did the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo accomplish AND how did it impact Texas?

Texas was annexed because of American expansionists’ belief in ______________________________________________________.

• Manifest Destiny
• Slavery
• Consent of the governed
• Brownsville
• Louisiana Purchase

The U.S.-Mexican War began after Mexican forces killed American troops near ______________________________________________________.

• Brownsville
• Slavery
• Consent of the governed
• Louisiana Purchase
• Manifest Destiny

The ______________________________________________________was held to draft and adopt a new constitution.

• Convention of 1845
• Slavery
• Consent of the governed
• Brownsville
• Louisiana Purchase

The practice of ____________________________________________________ was protected under the Constitution of 1845.

• Slavery
• Consent of the governed
• Brownsville
• Louisiana Purchase
• Manifest Destiny