Texas Early Statehood

What treaty (agreement) ended the U.S.-Mexican War?

• Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

• Treaty of Paris

• Treaty of Versailles

• Treaty of Tordesillas

Which immigrant group is the largest immigrant group in Texas, influenced kindergartens, and brought over new farming techniques?

• Germans

• Mexicans

• Irish

• Chinese

To solve the issue of slavery in the Mexican Cession, Henry Clay drafted what legislation?

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Fugitive Slave Act

The belief that the United States had the clear calling and right to spread from sea to shining sea is called

• Manifest Destiny

• American Exceptionalism

• Colonial Expansion

• Westward Expansion

All of the following are immigrant groups in Texas except:

• Germans

• Irish

• Czech

• Finnish

Between what two rivers did the U.S.-Mexican war start over?

• Rio Grande river and Nueces river

• Mississippi river and Missouri river

• Colorado river and Rio Bravo

• Tigris river and Euphrates river

Texas was annexed into the U.S as the ______ state.

• 25th

• 26th

• 27th

• 28th

Manifest Destiny is the belief that:

• American expansion across North America was justified and inevitable.

• The United States should remain isolated from foreign affairs.

• All territories should be governed by European powers.

• The expansion of democracy is unnecessary.

Which treaty gave the U.S the Mexican Cession territory?

• Treaty of Paris

• Treaty of Velasco

• Travis Letter

• Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

Which of the following was not included in the Compromise of 1850?

• Stronger fugitive slave laws

• Outlawing slavery in Texas

• Admitting California as a free state

• Abolishing slave trade in Washington D.C.