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| What did Texas need to do when they became a state? |
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| What is Manifest Destiny? |
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| expansion of the United States to the Pacific Ocean |
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| What happened after Texas was annexed and Mexico threatened war against the U.S.? |
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| Texas had claims against Mexico for the damage to their property |
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| What U.S. military leaders were involved in the Mexican-American War? |
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| Zachary Taylor, Jacob Brown, General Windell Scott |
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| How did the Mexican-American war end? |
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| The treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
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| What the Treaty of Guadalupe establish? |
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| That Texas was now a part of the United States |
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| What is the Mexican Cession? |
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| Tranfsfering New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Wyoming, Utah and Colorado to Texas. |
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| What western border issue did Texas face afterh the Mexican-American war? |
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| people in Mexico wanted to be part of Texas and some didn't. |
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| How did Texas governor James Henderson deal with this issue? |
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| He sent a representative to Santa Fe. |
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| What is the Compromise of 1850? |
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| California to be admitted |
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| What are the 5 provisions within the compromise? |
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1. California became a free state.
2. slave trade ended
3. New Mexico and Utah territories
4. Texas receives 10 million dollars
5. south gets future slave |
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| What is the Fugitive Slave Law? |
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| Southern members of congress also wanted a federal law to provide help finding ruaway slaves |
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| A person who wants to end slavery |
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| What did the Act of Sept. 9, 1859 establish? |
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| The boundary established in the Texas and New Mexico. This created Texas present- day borders. |
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| What was agriculture of food crops like during early statehood of Texas? |
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| Most Texans lived on farm and others farmed wheat, soeeto potatoes. the main crop was corn |
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| How did cotton influencee the Texas economy? |
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| cotton was the primary cash crops |
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| a crop produced to make money |
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| What was a cash crop in Texas? |
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| What pastimes did Texans enjoy? |
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| horse racing, hunting and fishing was the most popular stuff. |
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| Why did many immigrants move to Texas? |
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| They wanted cheap land and a sense of adventure[ |
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After Anglos and Mexicans, the most immigrants in
Texas during the 1860s were from what country? |
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it is large scale starving
a severe food shortage |
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| Why is Juan Cortina important |
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Carried out violent act against evil white officials.
A rancher who believed that Tejanos were not being treated fairly. |
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| Why is Henri Castro important |
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| he brought over lots of French people and founded a colony for the French located west of San Antonio |
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| Why is John O. Meusebach important |
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He brought over 2000 German settlers to
New Braunfels |
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| What are the "wedges of separation" that began to grow between the North and the South? |
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| What does the term secede mean? |
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leaving or
to withdraw formally |
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| what does emancipation mean |
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| After Texas was admitted into the United States, the next step was to |
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| After the Uniteed States' annexation of Texas and Mexico's threat of war, what happened next? |
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| President Polk sent James Slidell to Mexico to try to ease the tensions between the two countries |
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| During the Mexican-American War, U.S. troops did what |
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| attacked and occupied Mexico city |
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| What treaty established the Rio Grande as Texas' southern border |
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| the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
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| Why did Texas governor James Henderson send a representative of Texas' state government to Santa Fe? |
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| To claim control of New Mexico |
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| Why did Mexico not honor the Treaties of Velasco? |
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| The Mexican president simply refused to accept the treaties because he wanted Texas to remain a Mexican state |
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| Name three of the parts of the Compromise of 1850 |
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1. The Fugitive Slave Law was passed
1. The slcave trade was ended in Washington, D.C.
3. California was admitted as a free state |
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| Name three parts of the Act of Sep. 9, 1850 |
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1. Texas gave up its claims to disputed land
2. Texas received $10million
3. The current borders of Texas were established |
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| The agreement in which Mexico surrendered all land between Texas and the Pacific Ocean |
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| A person who wants to end slavery |
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