Unit 3-Republic to Reconstruction

Question 1

Sam Houston

Answer 1

1836-38; 1841-44 worked to decrease debt, peaceful relations with Natives, supported annexation

Question 2

Mirabeau Lamar

Answer 2

1838-41; spent money fighting the Natives and attempted to capture Santa Fe to build “empire of the west” ; set aside land for education (Father of Texas Education); against annexation

Question 3

Anson Jones

Answer 3

1844-45; last Texas president - during annexation; supported annexation and Houston’s policies

Question 4

what is manifest destiny? what document finalized manifest destiny for the United States?

Answer 4

• manifest destiny: idea that the US was meant to expand from coast to coast
• the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

Question 5

what is popular sovereignty and how does it relate to the expansion of the US?

Answer 5

• popular sovereignty: people vote whether territory will be free or slave state
• it was used to settle the Kansas Nebraska territory and Mexican Cession

Question 6

when was Texas annexed and why did it take so long?

Answer 6

• 1845

- people didn’t want to go to war with Mexico, didn’t want slave state and Texas had debt

Question 7

what document finalized the shape of Texas? what else did it do for the US?

Answer 7

• Compromise of 1850:
• the admission of California as a free state
• the organization of the territories of New Mexico and Utah with the slavery question left open using popular sovereignty
• settle of the Texas-New Mexico boundary dispute
• Runaway Slave Act to return slaves to their masters

Question 8

what is the issues of state’s rights?

Answer 8

North thinks federal government has final say on laws; South thinks states have a right to choose if they follow laws like taxes

Question 9

what were the key causes of the Civil War? (know the cause and what it was)

Answer 9

• sectionalism
• states’ rights
• slavery
• Missouri Compromise
• uncle Tom’s cabin
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Bleeding Kansas
• Caning of Sumner
• Dred Scott decision
• attack on Harper’s Ferry
• election of Lincoln
• secession of Ft. Sumter

Question 10

what did the Kansas-Nebraska Act do?

Answer 10

proposed allowing Kansas and Nebraska use popular sovereignty to determine if they were free or slave states when they enter the Union. it settled the area faster but led to bloodshed (Bleeding Kansas). it also voided the Missouri Compromise.

Question 11

what were important battles of the Civil War?

Answer 11

• Ft. Sumter~first
• Gettysburg
• Vicksburg
• Appomattox Courthouse~surrender
  Texas battles:
• Laredo
• Galveston
• Sabine Pass
• Palamito Ranch~last

Question 12

what did the Emancipation Proclomation do?

Answer 12

freed slaves in the rebelling states and invited them to fight for the Union against the Confederacy