Why was 1845 significant to Texas history?
Semester 2 Review

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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Mexico achieved its independence from Spain that year.
Texas declared its independence from Mexico that year.
Texas seceded from the United States that year.
Texas was annexed by the United States that year.
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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Which statement best explains how a belief in Manifest Destiny influenced the U.S. annexation of Texas?
Many Texans supported annexation because they were born in the U.S. and they wanted to be U.S. citizens again.
Most Americans supported Texas annexation so that slavery would spread westward and increase the number of slave states in the United States.
Many Americans supported Texas statehood because they were eager to expand the United States to the Pacific Ocean.
Americans saw Texas as a place to develop new factories and mills to support economic growth in the United States.
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which of the following was a direct cause of the U.S.-Mexican War?
The Mexican government wanted to exercise control over the government of Texas.
There was a dispute over the location of a boundary between Texas and Mexico.
The Mexican government protested the treatment of Mexican citizens living in Texas.
The Mexican government demanded the return of Texas from the United States.
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Texas and Mexico disagreed on the boundary between themselves, with the two governments using different rivers as boundary markers. From which Mexican states did the disputed part of Texas, between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande, come?
Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon
Tamaulipas and Coahuila
Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon and Coahuila
Tamaulipas, Chihuahua, Nuevo Leon, and Coahuila
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which statement best explains why Texas seceded from the Union in 1861?
Texas was an agricultural state with large, slaveholding plantations, whose owners controlled politics and voted to join the Confederacy.
Texans, like most Southerners, believed they should support the abolition of slavery and seceded to keep that right.
Texans opposed tariffs on imported slaves and therefore supported secession.
Governor Sam Houston encouraged Texans to vote for secession to protect slavery in the state.
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which term completes the sentence above?
Galveston
Palmito Ranch
Sabine Pass
Vicksburg
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which of the following statements is supported by the chart above?
The Confederate Army’s leaders were more skilled than those of the Union Army.
The North’s industrial advantages made it unlikely the South would win the war.
The North needed the support of European allies to produce weapons and ammunition.
Sam Houston believed that Texans who voted for secession were traitors.
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