Unit 7 TX History Question Preview (ID: 54660)


This Unit Covers The Texas Republic And Events Leading To Annexation. TEACHERS: click here for quick copy question ID numbers.

What is the correct order of the ELECTED Presidents of Texas?
a) Houston, Houston, Jones Burnet
b) Jones, Burnet, Lamar, Houston
c) Lamar, Houston, Houston, Jones
d) Houston, Lamar, Houston Jones

Which President of Texas had a more peaceful approach with the Native Americans?
a) Anson Jones
b) Sam Houston
c) Mirabeau Lamar
d) David Burnet

Which President was known for making education a priority?
a) David Burnet
b) Anson Jones
c) Sam Houston
d) Mirabeau Lamar

Who served as the ad interim (temporary) President during the Texas Revolution?
a) David Burnet
b) Sam Houston
c) Anson Jones
d) Mirabeau Lamar

Why was slavery a cause for Texas to not be annexed to the U.S. sooner?
a) The president of the U.S was anti slavery
b) The other slave states in the U.S did not want Texas annexed
c) Texas did not want to join a country that had slavery
d) It would upset the balance of free states and slave states in the US

How did Texas's debt affect their desire to be annexed?
a) Joining the U.S. would help them pay off their public debt
b) Debt was not an issue for the Republic of Texas
c) Texas needed to build their credit so they needed more debt
d) Texas did not need to join the U.S. because they could print their own money

How did the threat of Mexico attacking influence Texans' desire to be annexed?
a) Texas thought they could handle Mexico themselves and did not need annexation
b) Texas knew that the U.S. could offer security and protection if they were annexed
c) Texas only needed help paying their soldiers and just wanted the U.S. to pay for it
d) Texas being annexed could not happen because they were already fighting Mexico

Analyze this quote and determine if it is Pro or Anti Annexation. “So far as I am concerned, or my hearty cooperation required, I am determined upon immediate annexation to the United States.
a) Pro-Annexation
b) Anti-Annexation
c)
d)

Which U.S. President was in favor of the annexation of Texas and the idea of Manifest Destiny?
a) Polk
b) Tyler
c) Houston
d) Lamar

What was the name of the treaty that brought an end to the Mexican-American War?
a) Treaty of the Rio Grande
b) Treaty of Texas
c) Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
d) Treaty of North America

Identify what type of state Texas entered the Union as.
a) Free State
b) Slave State
c) Temporary State
d) Mexican State

Identify the plan that helped pay off Texas's public debt and sold Texas's claim to New Mexico
a) Polk Plan
b) Austin Plan
c) Jones Plan
d) Pearce Plan

True or False: The Texas Republic banned the free black population from entering the country
a) True
b) False
c)
d)

Homestead
a) a grant of free land issued during the Republic to the head of the household
b) a person licensed and paid in land or money to bring settlers into a country
c) a settlers home and land
d) a crop grown to be used on the farm where it was raised

Subsistence Crop
a) a grant of free land issued during the Republic to the head of the household
b) a person licensed and paid in land or money to bring settlers into a country
c) a settlers home and land
d) a crop grown to be used on the farm where it was raised

Cash Crop
a) farm crop grown to be sold for money
b) a person who settles or uses land that does not belong to them
c) a device used to send and receive messages over long distances
d) a crop grown to be used on the farm where it was raised

Immigration Agent
a) a person skilled at making things with their hands
b) a person licensed and paid in land or money to bring settlers into a country
c) a person who settles or uses land that does not belong to them
d) a floating mass of tangled driftwood that can block a waterway

Manifest Destiny
a) a statement that is passed by both houses of the legislature
b) supporting the interests of native-born Americans
c) the 19th-century belief that U.S. expansion was destined to reach all the way to the Pacific Ocean
d) land set aside for Native Amrericans

Nativism
a) a statement that is passed by both houses of the legislature
b) an agreement to stop fighting
c) a representative or messenger
d) supporting the interests of native-born Americans

Reservation
a) to approve
b) a representative or messenger
c) payment for damages and suffering
d) land set aside for Native Amrericans

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