25-26 Social Studies CBA 4

What was the importance of the Texas Constitution?

• It gave money for public schools in Texas.

• It created a plan for governing Texas with rules and laws.

• It set rules for who could hold office in the government.

• It said only one Tejano could participate as a writer of the Constitution.

Reconstruction is

• the time of rebuilding and change in the South after the Civil War.

• a tax paid on goods that come from another country.

• am unfair separation, based on race.

• a group of soldiers who fight battles on horseback.

What was one cause of the dispute between the United States and Mexico?

• United States citizens did not want to learn Spanish.

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  United States citizens wanted to control all the waterways.

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  United States citizens wanted fishing rights in the Gulf of Mexico.

• United States citizens felt they had a right to expand their territory.

What was the main purpose of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo? 

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  To make Mexicans United States citizens

• To give voting rights to Tejanos

• To expand Mexican territory

• To end the Mexican War

What caused Texas to secede from the United States?

• Texas wanted to secede because South Carolina separated from the U.S. to follow their own laws.

• Texas did not want to be forced to follow the laws and beliefs of the Northern states.

• The people of Texas did not like newly elected President Lincoln.

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  Texas wanted to take control of more land.

Why did Texas need to rebuild its economy during Reconstruction? 

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  Cotton was no longer an export.

• All its factories were moved to the North.

• People could no longer use enslaved workers.

• Most of the banks were destroyed in the war.

What caused the conflict between Texas and American Indians?

• Texas wanted to have access to the American Indian crops and animals.

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  Texas wanted the American Indians to build railroads to transport crops.

• Texas let American Indians pick out the land they wanted because they settled Texas first.

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  Texas wanted the land to support its economic growth and development.

What is the importance of General Gordon Granger’s arrival to Galveston on June 19, 1865?

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  It was the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln freeing the slaves in the United States.

• He shared the message that all enslaved Texans were free in the United States.

• It was a famous holiday shared with the Southerners by the Northern states.

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  He delivered a message that a war was brewing and the people of Texas needed to be prepared.

What impact did the surrender of the Comanche, led by Chief Quanah, have on Texas? 

• White settlements moved in and created cattle and sheep ranches.

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  The Plains Indians moved to another part of Texas and rebuilt their homes.

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  Settlers moved out and gave the Plains Indians land.

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  The Plains Indians and people of Texas formed a settlement together.

When did the Mexican American War happen?

• 1830

• 1836

• 1846

• 1850