1. Who won the Texas Presidential Election of 1841?
2. What did Houston do with the Texas Army and Navy that had been built up by Lamar?
3. What did Sam Houston want to do about the Texas Capitol?
4. What prevented the capitol from being moved?
5. Why was Houston so anxious to move the capitol back to Houston, Tx?
6. What was the Archive War?
7. Did American Presidents Jackson and Van Buren want to Annex Texas?
8. What is notable about the Presidency of William Henry Harrison?
9. Who became President of the United States following the death of American president Harrison?
10. Why did the Treaty for the Annexation of Texas fail?
11. What was the argument used by John Tyler to suggest Texas was unorganized territory?
12. Who was president of the Texas Republic at the time of Annexation?
13. Who won the American presidential election of 1844?
14. Did James K Polk oppose the annexation of Texas?
15. What was Polk’s main agenda when he ran for president in 1844?
16. What did Mexico do to attempt to stop the Annexation of Texas?
17. Who was sent to Texas by the U.S. Government to secure the new State?
18. Where in Texas did General Zachary Taylor station his so called “Army of Observation”?
19. What was the contested territory in south Texas usually referred to as?
20. Who was Captain Seth Thorton?
21. What was controversial about the death of Captain Thorton?
22. The Death of Captain Thorton was used to justify which war?
23. General Zachary Taylor won fame in which theater of the Mexican-American War?
24. Who was the leader of the American assault on Mexico City?
25. Which Treaty ended the Mexican-American War?
26. What did the Compromise of 1850 do to the boundaries of the new State of Texas?
27. How did Texas pay off its debts?
28. Which group began arriving in large number to Texas during the latter years of the 1840s?
29. Why did Germans leave The Germanic states in the 1840s?
30. What was the Revolution of 1848 about?
31. Who was Carl von Solms-Braunfels?
32. Did German immigrants to Texas agree with Slavery?
33. Was slavery a widely practiced institution in Texas?
34. What was land adjudication and who was targeted by it?
35. Texas laws made it illegal for Tejanos to associate with whom?
36. Was Slavery an institution practiced everywhere in Texas?
37. Why could slaves not be held in areas close to the Mexican border?
38. What industry did Tejanos enjoy a great degree of success in during the 1840s and 1850s?
39. What is the Cart War and how was it resolved?
40. Who was Juan Cortina
41. Why did Cortina hold a grudge against the U.S. Government?
42. What started the so called Cortina War?
43. Which Texas Ranger was tasked with hunting Juan Cortina down?
44. What was popular sovereignty?
45. What controversial law refocused attention of the U.S. to slavery and Popular Sovereignty?
46. Following the Kansas-Nebraska Act, did Kansas join as a free or slave state?
47. What nickname did Kansas earn for the brutal fighting taking place there between free state and slave
state forces?
48. Why was the Dred Scott case so controversial?
49. Which political party was formed especially to fight against southern slave holding democrats?
50. What groups joined the Republican party during the 1850’s?
51. What were the three factions of the Republican Party?
52. What happened to the Republicans during the election of 1856 and why?
53. During the election of 1860, who was the Republican Candidate for president?
54. What faction of the republican party did Abraham Lincoln belong to?
55. What issue split the Democrats during the convention of 1860?
56. How many candidates did the Democrats have for president during the election of 1860?
57. Who were the secession commissioners and what did they want?