Texas History Final Review: Units 6 and 7

Why is 1845 significant in Texas history?

• Sam Houston was elected President of the Republic

• Texas forces won the Battle of the Alamo, ending the war with Mexico

• Texas was annexed by the United States

• Texas won its independence from Mexico

Who was elected as the second president of the Republic of Texas?

• Anson Jones

• James K. Polk

• Mirabeau Lamar

• Stephen F. Austin

The primary function of the Texas Rangers for the Republic of Texas was to–

• Establish a prison system for the Texas justice system

• Protect Texans from American Indian tribes

• Return fugitive enslaved people to Texas farms

• Wage war with the Mexican government

In what year did Texas secede from the union and join the confederacy?

• 1519

• 1821

• 1836

• 1861

Which event does Texas Emancipation Day, or Juneteenth, celebrate?

• The day President Lincoln signed the Emancipation

• The day Texas rejoined the Union

• The day Texas seceded from the Union

• The day the end of slavery was officially announced in Texas

1. The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States; and shall have the right of transit and sojourn in any State of this Confederacy, with their slaves and their property' and the right of property in said slaves shall not be thereby impaired. 

                     -   Constitution of the Confederate States of America, 1861

According to the excerpt above, the authors of this document viewed certain African Americans as –

• Able-bodied farmhands

• Equal citizens

• Northern spies

• Property

Jack Coffee Hays is best known for —

• building the town of Nacogdoches

• leading the Santa Fe Expedition

• serving as a captain for the Texas Rangers

• supporting the annexation of Texas

As a result of the Córdova Rebellion —

• Nacogdoches fell to Mexican occupation for 3 years

• President Sam Houston ordered all the conspirators to be executed

• Texans increasingly distrusted Mexicans and American Indians

• the Texas Navy was decommissioned and left to deteriorate and be scrapped

A defining characteristic of the Republic Era was —

• a permanent peace treaty with the Cherokee nation in 1840

• Mexico surrendering claims to the Santa Fe territory to Texas in 1841

• the election of William Goyens, first African American President of Texas

• the legalization of slavery after Texas won its independence from Mexico

Which of the following completes the table above?

• #1 Chief Bowles, #2 John Coffee Hays

• #1 Mirabeau Lamar, #2 Anson Jones

• #1 José Antonio Navarro, #2 Mary Maverick

• #1 Sam Houston, #2 Mirabeau Lamar