Free Printable Texas Statehood

Worksheets

Texas Statehood

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name

Class

Date

What caused the Mexican War?

Continued anger over the Battle of the Alamo

The U.S. refused to free Mexican prisoners from the Texas Revolution

A boundary dispute over Texas’ southern border

Santa Anna sued the U.S. over rights to the chewing gum industry

Mexico and the U.S. disagreed on the southern border of Texas. Mexico believed the ____________ was the border while the U.S. believed that the ___________ was the border.

Nueces River, Rio Grande River

Mexico and the U.S. agreed that the Nueces River was the border

Texans believed that the border was the Gulf of Mexico

The border kept changing based upon Indian Wars

How much did the United States pay for the Mexican Cession?

$3.7 million

$6.8 million

$10 million

$15 million

Why was the Compromise of 1850 necessary?

To set the Boundary between U.S. states and territories

Settled a dispute between England and the United States

Disagreements over slavery and territories

It repealed the Compromise of 1849

The Compromise of 1850 did what for Texas directly?

Gave Texas our modern day borders and paid off Texas' debt

Split Texas between the states of New Mexico, Oklahoma and Louisiana

Freed all slaves in Texas

Allowed Mexico to reclaim all of Texas

What ended the Mexican War?

Paris peace talks

Treaty of Velasco

Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

Surrender of the Texas Rangers

The Comancheria was an area controlled by which tribe?

Apache

Kiowa

Comanche

Caddo

Charles Goodnight was a former ___ and ___.

banker, shipbuilder

Indian scout, Texas Ranger

soldier, congressman

gunfighter, bank robber

Which picture best matches the definition of a compromise?

10.

Which US general captured San Diego and Upper California

Kearny

Wool

Taylor

Scott

11.

The lands gained by the United States as a result of the Mexican War are known as the

Texas Annexation

Mexican Cession

Gadsen Purchase

12.

This president was a strong believer in expanding the nation westward

Henry Clay

Andrew Jackson

James K. Polk

13.

U.S. citizens believed it was their God-Given fate to travel westward, which they titled what?

American Expansion

Westward Ho!

Manifest Destiny

14.

Which statement best reflects the Mexican point of view toward the causes of the Mexican-US war?

the Mexican government should pay for damages caused to US property during the Texas Revolution.

the US offered too much money for California

because of Manifest Destiny, the US had a right to expand its territory to the Pacific Ocean

Mexico never acknowledged Texas as independent and believed the U.S. had no right to take it

15.

What was a direct result of the annexation of Texas?

American Revolution

U.S. Mexican War

Texas Revolution

Civil War

16.

When did Texas become a part of the U.S.?

1836

1845

1850

1861

17.

Which number indicates the location where many German immigrants settle within Texas in the 1840s?

18.

Where did most of the enslaved peoples live in Texas?

East and Southeast Texas

near El Paso

along the Rio Grande River

North Texas

19.

Which best summarizes the 1850 Compromise?

It failed because it did not solve the issue of slavery in the United States

it succeeded because it ended the war with Mexico

it succeeded because it outlawed slavery in the United States

It failed because Mexico continued to raid into Texas

20.

Which picture is connected with the idea of Manifest Destiny?

21.