Early Statehood

What was the purpose of the Bill of Rights?

• to protect the natives

• to protect individual freedoms

• to protect government borders

• to protect national rights

What started the U.S. Mexican War?

• American forces attacking Santa Fe

• Mexican forces attacking San Antonio

• Mexican forces attacking US troops near Brownsville

• American forces attacking Mexico City

The US - Mexican War was officially ended by the signing of:

• The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• The Treaty of Bill of Rights

• The Treaty of Manifest Destiny

• The Treaty of Paris

The Compromise of 1850 was put in place to address the issue of:

• Slavery

• National Debt

• National Boundaries

• Constitutional deficiency

In a Free Enterprise system prices are determined by:

• agricultural debt

• supply/demand (the consumer)

• national debt

• foreign debt

High Demand + Low Supply =

• High Taxes

• High Price

• Low Price

• Low taxes

The most developed center for trading/largest port in Texas in the 1850s was:

• Galveston

• Houston

• Dallas

• San Antonio

What was the main cash crop grown during the 1800s ?

• Cotton

• Tobaacco

• Wheat

• Rice

The Fugitive Slave Act on 1850 :

• made it a crime to capture runaway slaves

• documented runaway slaves

• made it a crime to help runaway slaves

• made it a crime to report runaway slaves

Under the Compromise of 1850 - California became:

• a slave state

• a free state

• a western trading port

• sovereign