Final Exam Review Part 8 Flashcards
Lamar’s administration resulted in
a soaring national debt.
A difficult political issue for the US in the annexation of Texas was
slavery.
There were two competing offers presented to the Convention of 1845 annexation or
recognition of the Republic of Mexico.
The most popular political party in Texas in the 1840’s and 1850’s was
the Democratic Party.
The annexation resolution made Texas agree to reduce its public debt by
raising taxes.
Under the new constitution, corporations
could only operate with permission from the legislature.
The economy of the northern US depended heavily on
commerce and manufacturing.
President Tyler and some other Americans feared that
Great Britain was gaining too much influence in Texas.
The US Senate voted in the summer of 1844 to
demand that Britain leave Texas alone.
The belief that it was American’s divine right to annex Texas referred to
manifest destiny.
The columnist who wrote in favor of annexation in the New York Sun was
Jane McManus Cazneau
The document created by the US Congress in 1844 to approve annexation was a
joint resolution, which required only a simple majority.
The first governor of the state of Texas was
James Pinckney Henderson
At the convention of 1845, which wrote the state constitution, Jose Antonio Navarro was
the only delegate from San Antonio.
The new constitution required the state legislature to meet
every two years.
Under Texas law, which stemmed from old Spanish laws, married women
could own property separate from their husbands.
The South thought that it could win the war because
it had skilled military men and could fight a defensive war.
Sam Houston warned Texans that
the North was determined to keep the Union together.
The South’s greatest resource for trade with the world was
cotton.
General William Tecumseh Sherman is remembered for
his destructive march through Georgia and the Carolinas.
At the end of the war, Texas was
in a state of political and economic collapse.
Most major battles of Civil War took place
east of the Mississippi.
General Ulysses Grant fought hard for control of
the Mississippi River valley.
Grant’s army and a fleet of ironclad ships split the Confederacy in two with the capture of
Vicksburg.
