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Texas History

Assignment #5

Panola College

1. Transportation, education, and ________________ _______________ were not

resolved during the period 1846-1861.2. Public debt in excess of $100,000; married women were allowed to own

property; and property in a homestead (200 acres or less) was exempt fromforeclosure for debt were included in the ________________ ________________of 1845.

3. The first governor of Texas was_______________ __________________________________.

4. The annexation of Texas led to a major war between ___________________ andthe __________________ __________________.

5. The _______________ __________________ was a bill in Congress that wouldhave prohibited slavery in any territory acquired as a result of the Mexican War.

6. The _________________ of _____________________ _______________ endedthe boundary controversy between Mexico and the United States but opened theway for one between the state of Texas and the national government.

7. The major obstacle to Texas claiming land east of the Rio Grande was___________________.

8. Funds received in the __________________ _________________ were to beused to pay the public debt of Texas, which developed during the republic andconsisted of two major typesordinary and revenue.

9. A new political organization appeared in Texas in 1854 to challenge theDemocrats. The new political organization, the ________________ or______________-_______________ party, was a secret and mysterious

organization founded on the Atlantic seaboard and based on nativist (anti-foreign)principles.

10. Sam Houston angered many Texans when he voted against the________________-_________________ ______________ in 1854 whichpromised to open the possibility of slavery in certain lands in the LouisianaPurchase where slavery had been prohibited.

11. Almost three-fourths of the Texas population in 1860 was born________________ _________________.

12. _____________________ and _______________________ were two ethnicgroups suspected of opposing slavery in Texas during the early statehood period.

13. Between 1848 and 1860 the army created and ____________ route and

___________ route between central Texas and El Paso.14. While relying on the army and force, the federal government also turned to the

use of _________________ _______________ and reservations to bring peace onthe frontier.

15. Members of the Constitutional Union Party believed that the only hope for savingthe South rested in fighting for southern rights in the ________________.

16. Many southerners wanted to secede from the United States when__________________ __________________ was elected President.

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17. Texas was a ________________ state in the Confederacy, exposed to attack fromthe north, west, and south.

18. The most aggressive campaign involving Texans on the American frontier was aneffort to occupy _______________ ______________ which resulted in theestablishment of a government in Arizona for a short time.

19. In 1862, East Texas was saved from the Union due to the valiant efforts ofLieutenant Dick Dowling and his men at ________________________________.

20. The last battle of the Civil War took place at ____________________________________ under the direction of John S. Ford.