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Spring Final Review
1. Why was 1845 a significant year in Texas history?
2. The first elected governor of Texas was?
3. Describe the significant events and people of the Mexican American War:
a. United States President:
b. Area both U.S. and Mexico claimed before the war:
c. Texans supported the war because:
4. How did Texas try to encourage settlements?
5. When did Texas declared its independence? Who was the first country to recognize Texas?
6. Why did Texans face serious financial problems?
7. Why did many Texans want to be annexed by the U.S.?
8. Why did many in the U.S. not want to annex Texas?
9. Discuss the following events during Lamar’s term as president.
a. The capital –
b. Mexico –
c. Education –
d. Native Americans –
10. How did Houston try to deal with Native Americans and government debt in his second term?
11. Discuss life in the Republic. Be sure to include how most people made their living (give details), the
importance of towns education.
Vocabulary
12. Veto
13. Manifest Destiny
14. Popular Sovereignty
15. Permanent school fund
16. Nativism
17. Armistice
18. Reservation
19. Cession
20. Exile
21. Emigrate
22. List the provisions of the 1845 state Constitution.
23. Who won the Battle of Buena Vista?
24. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo:
25. List the provisions of the Compromise of 1850:
26. Discuss the judicial branch.
27. How did Texas spend the money it got from the Compromise of 1850?
Life as a state
28. Political parties:
29. What most attracted people to come to Texas?
30. Why did more come to Texas after it became a state?
31. Where did most of the immigrants to Texas come from?
32. How did the government deal with Native Americans? Why?
33. Mexican immigrants:
34. Why did the government of Texas want the land developed?
Vocabulary
35. Blockade
36. Abolitionist
38. Causes of the Civil War (1861):
1.
2.
3.
4.
39. Why did Texas join the Confederacy?
40. Kansas-Nebraska Act:
41. Battle of Galveston: reason:
42. Importance of Confederate capture of Galveston to Texas Economy:
43. Economy in Texas during the Civil War:
44. Appomattox Court House:
45. What was a political effect of the Civil War?
37. Blockade runners
46. Why did many Southern states secede from the Union and join the confederacy?
47. What was the document that declared the end of slavery in the confederacy and allowed African Americans
to enter the armed forces?
Reconstruction
48. Freedmen’s Bureau:
49. Economy:
50. Black Codes:
51. Congressional Reconstruction:
52. 13th Amendment:
53. 14th Amendment:
54. Describe the sharecropper system.
55. What was a political goal of Presidential Reconstruction?
56. What was a social effect of the Civil War?
57. What roles did women play following the war?
58. What was the goal of the new constitution of 1876 in Texas?
Vocabulary
59. federalism
60. indictment
61. What rights are mentioned in the Texas Bill of Rights?
62. Legislature:
a. responsibility:
b. leadership in the House:
c. leadership in the Senate:
d. power over the executive branch:
e. House length of term:
f. Senate length of term:
g. what happens to a bill after it has passed both houses:
h. Senate power over appointments:
63. Judicial:
i. responsibility:
j. cases heard in civil courts:
k. trial courts:
l. the two courts at the top of the system:
m. age to serve on a jury:
64. Executive:
n. responsibility:
o. attorney general:
p. commissioner of agriculture:
q. comptroller:
r. lieutenant governor:
s. power over the legislature:
65. Discuss checks and balances:
66. Discuss popular sovereignty:
67. What happened in 1876?
68. Discuss patriotism:
69. What is found in the oilfields of Texas:
70. Main crop exported from Texas:
71. Treaty
72. Quarantine
Vocabulary
73. Longhorns
74. Felony
75. Identify Buffalo Soldiers.
76. Cattle Ranching
77. Discuss barb wire in Texas.
78. Why were Mustangs well suited to being used in cattle drives?
79. Why did cattle drives begin in Texas?
80. WWI created the most growth in which major Texas industry?
81. Discuss the New Deal and its importance –
Vocabulary
82. Derrick
83. Commission
84. Refinery
85. Reformer
86. Suffrage
87. Transcontinental
88. Switch board
89. Monopoly