What treaty ended the Texas Revolutionary war (the TX war with Mexico)?

Fill in the blank: Texas claims that the _______________________ was the boundary between Texas and Mexico.

Who was the first elected president of the Republic of Texas?

What were some of Sam Houston's goals for the new republic?

What was the role of the Texas Rangers?

Who was elected second president of the Republic?

Who is known as the Father of Texas Education?

Fill in the blank: The Homestead Act protected Texans' homes and up to 50 acres of land from __________________ for debts.

Fill in the blank: The ___________________ Trail was an important trade route, running from Independence, Missouri, to Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Who is elected 3rd president of the republic of Texas?

Who was the first European nation to recognize Texas as a country?

Who was the last president of the republic of Texas?

On what year was Texas annexed to the United States?

Fill in the blanks: _____________ was the cash crop of Texas.

What was the Ashworth Act?

How did immigrant groups maintained their cultures?

Fill in the blank: Most jobs in the Republic were related to _______________.

Which VIP was one of the three Tejano signers of the Texas Declaration of Independece?

Which VIP wrote a detailed eyewitness account of the Council House Fight in 1840?

Which of the following are arguments FOR annexation of TX to the USA?

Fill in the blank: At the time of TX annexation, the North had a ____________________ economy.

Fill in the blank: During the time of TX annexation, the south had a ________________ economy.

The picture above gives an example of what?

Fill in the Blank: Manifest Destiny is the belief that the U.S was meant to spread __________ across North America.

Northerners opposed expansion because they did not want to spread what practice?

In what year does Texas join the United States?

Which U.S president supported TX annexation?

Fill in the blank: Federalism is a system of government where the power is distributed between the _______________ and the ________________ government

Who was the first elected governor of Texas?

True/False: The Treaties of Velasco ended the Mexican American War?

What is the name of the compromise that settled Texas' borders?

True/False: Texas was annexed into the U.S.A as a free state

The Mexican American War was prompted by the annexation of--

The Mexican Cession territory transferred to the United States under what treaty?

Which states did the Mexican Cession include?

True/False: California came into the Union as a free state.

What was the purpose of the Gadsden Purchase?

Fill in the blank: Native Americans were forced into _______________.

Which of the following people would most likely be a strong believer of Manifest Destiny?

Law in 1820 that prevented slavery north of the 36 degree, 30'N parallel and allowed Maine to enter as a free state and Missouri as a slave state.

Taxes placed on imported goods that the north supported to allow people to buy manufactured goods from their factories.

Law that allowed the people to decide whether to allow slavery in the territories north of the Missouri Compromise line

Law passed in 1850 that required citizens to catch runaway slaves and return them to the South; judges earned $10 per slave returned to the South

Belief that it is more important to focus on your area then the nation as a whole.

The abolitionist who planned a slave revolt by attacking the arsenal at Harper's Ferry, VA and was captured and later executed for his involvement in "Bleeding Kansas" was...

Which political party was established in 1854 as an anti-slavery party?

In what year did the Civil War begin with the firing upon Ft. Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina?

The act of withdrawing from an organized body is known as...

"We think they [people of African ancestry] are...not included, and were not intended to be included, under the word 'citizen' in the Constitution, and can therefore claim none of the rights and privileges which that instrument provides for and secures to citizens of the United States."

The excerpt above is taken from the 1857 landmark U.S. Supreme Court case known as...

Law in 1820 that prevented slavery north of the 36 degree, 30'N parallel and allowed Maine to enter as a free state and Missouri as a slave state.

Law passed in 1850 that required citizens to catch runaway slaves and return them to the South; judges earned $10 per slave returned to the South

What were some advantages of the NORTH/UNION during the Civil War?

What were some advantages of the SOUTH/CONFEDERACY during the Civil War?

Which side had the following strategies to win the Civil War?

-Block Ports

-Control the Mississippi

-Capture the capitol of Richmond, VA

Which side had the following strategies to win the Civil War?

-Fight a Defensive War

-Rely on European nations to provide money/supplies

-take out Capitol Washington, DC

Who was the president of the Confederate States of America (CSA)?

Who was the President of the Union/USA during the Civil War?

What declared slaves in the rebel states of the South free in Sept. of 1862?

In which battle does the Union succeed in taking control of the Mississippi River and cutting the Confederacy in half?

Which Civil War general believed in the "total war" philosophy?

Fill in the blanks: General Lee surrenders to General Grant in ________ _________ in April of 1865.

Which of the following are military campaigns fought in Texas?

What industries were established in Texas after the Civil War?

General Gordon Granger read Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation in Galveston, TX on June 19, 1865. This event is celebrated in Texas as...

All of the following were reasons for Texans to fight for the Confederate States of America (CSA) during the Civil War except:

Who was the author of the abolitionist novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?

Where were most of the significant battles in Texas fought?

What is a SCALAWAG?

What is a CARPETBAGGER?

Define RECONSTRUCTION.

What is a FREEDMEN?

Define BLACK CODES.

Who are the KU KUX KLAN?

Define RADICAL REPUBLICANS.

What is the 13th Amendment?

What is the 14th Amendment?

What is the 15th Amendment?

What were people who rented land (because they couldn’t

afford their own land) to grow crops after the Civil War

called?

What laws prohibiting African Americans from eating in the same restaurants as white Texans during Reconstruction was an example of which kind of laws?

Name the laws that denied African Americans’ civil rights, or the individual rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution were

known as:

What is the name of the holiday that celebrates the official

day that the emancipation of slaves in Texas took place

1865?

What U.S. President was impeached by the House of

Representative because he tried to block Congressional

Reconstruction?

What group/agency was created by the U.S. Congress in

order to provide help and legal aid to freedpeople after the

Civil War?

The forced separation of races is called-

Which of the following were terms for Johnson's Reconstruction Plan?

Most southern states were readmitted into the U.S by _______.

The term "______ _____________" is use to describe the emergence of a modern, industrial South

What is "suffrage?"

Name of the new breed of cattle that was a cross between Spanish and English cows.

What do you call organizations formed to provide assistance to skilled and unskilled workers?

Term used for the marks on livestock that determined ownership

A new type of inexpensive drift fencing invention designed with sharp points was known as…

Fill in the blanks: Unfenced lands in Texas available for cattle grazing were called the __________________.

What new technological invention made ranching in the Panhandle possible?

What country brought over the tradition of cattle ranching and vaqueros (cowboys)?

Which of the following is a reason why Texans drove their cattle to towns in the North and Midwest?

What cattle drive position was in charge of the decisions in planning and business records of the trail drive?

Why did ranchers brand their cattle?

In what year was oil discovered in Spindletop?

What invention helped create a demand for oil in the early 1900's?

Towns that grew as a result of the oil boom were called-

What do you call the increase of people living or working in cities?

The 18th amendment prohibited the production, sale, and consumption of-

Amendment 19 granted-

Who invented the Cotton Gin?

Who invented the Steel Plow?

Who invented the Mechanical Reaper?

Who invented the Barbed Wire?

Who was governor of Texas in 1890?

Click all that apply: How did Houston try to solve economic problems in Texas?

True or False: Houston wanted to promote trade and peace with the Native Americans in Texas.

Which of the following was one of the most important policies of Mirabeau B. Lamar?

Because of his effects to instill an education system, Lamar is remembered as ____________________.

What was the name of the law that protected Texans' homes and up to 50 acres from seizure for debts?

By the end of Lamar's term, he had achieved his goal of removing all the Cherokee from East Texas, and pushed the __________ far north and west.

Lamar expanded the use of bills known as "_____________". They were called this because of the color of ink that was used.

Which president was against Texas annexation to the U.S?

The first ten amendments to the Constitution are called-

Which of the following are rights under the 1st Amendment?

The 2nd amendment gives people the right-

The 3rd amendment gives people the right-

The 4th amendment gives people the right-

Who wrote the U.S Declaration of Independence?

Which of the following are Unalienable Rights?

Which of the following are branches of government?

All political power comes from the people. (voting & participation)

The power of government is limited, or has restrictions, in order to protect people’s rights.

Power is divided between the executive, legislative, and

judicial branches of government.

A system in which each branch has ways to check the other

branches in order to prevent one from becoming too powerful.

Distributes power between the central (national)

government and state (regional) governments.

Some powers are shared; others are not.

Voters elect representatives to serve in the government

and make decisions based on what is wanted by the people they represent.

Specific rights and freedoms guaranteed to citizens and protected by law.