Review for 3rd Nine Weeks Test

March 9, 2015 Warm up Copy the chart and complete in your spiral.

1845

1846

1848

1850

1854

1858

Chapter 10

U.S. annexes Texas,Texas writes state constitution

 Treaty of

Guadalupe Hidalgo signed

 Texas sets up

Indian reservations

 

1845   1848   1854  

  1846   1850   1859

 

Battles of Palo Alt and Resaca fought

Compromise of 1850 sets

Texas borders

 Almost all Indians

forced out of Texas to Oklahoma

Where are these battles located.

Main Ideas we covered in Chapter 10, Think about the main idea of each section and answer the questions

below, in your spiral.Section 1: After joining the United States, Texas set up its new state government.1. What documents were used by the framers when they wrote the state constitution of Texas?2. What were the three branches of the Texas state government? What were their

responsibilities?Section 2: War with Mexico broke out. The outcome established the Rio Grande as the

southern border of Texas.3. What was the dispute over the southern border of Texas?4. What were the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?Section 3: Texas had both old and new issues to face once it joined the United States. Border

disputes and the state debt held the attention of state leaders.5. What were two accomplishments of Governor Elisha M. Pease?6. What political party was the strongest in Texas in the 1840s and 1850s?7. How was the western border of Texas established?Section 4: Border conflicts and problems with Native Americans continued to trouble Texas

after it became a state.8. What was life like for the Tejanos in the early years of Texas statehood?9. What happened to most Native Americans in Texas in 1859?

Pictionary

• You will be given a word to describe either through pantomime or sketch. The others will determine which word your are interpreting.

• A correct response will be given by definition.

• Veto • Judiciary

• Manifest Destiny• Cession• Permanent School Fund• Popular sovereignty• Exiled• Cattle rustler• Annexation• Texas Rangers

Warm up March 10, 2015Chapter 11 Complete the immigrant chart

Immigrant Groups Significant Events and people

Germans 1831

1842

1844

1845

1847

1854

French 1842

1844-47

1855

Poles 1854

Irish 1841

Norwegians 1844

1845

Swedes 1847

Hungarians 1848

Czechs 1851

Mexicans Late 1800’s to early 1900’s

Main Ideas we covered in Chapter 11 Think about the main idea of each section and

answer the questions below, in your spiral.Section 1: Land grants, statehood, and other factors led people to immigrate to Texas in

the 1800s.1. Why did Texas give away large amounts of land?2. How did statehood encourage people to move to Texas?Section 2: Most immigrants to Texas came from the southern United States. However,

there were differences in their occupations, wealth, freedom, and how they traveled.3. How did the immigrants from the Upper South feel about slavery?4. How did the immigrants from the Lower South make their living in Texas?5. Why did tens of thousands of African Americans come to Texas in the 1850s and 1860s?Section 3: In the mid-1800s, Germans began to move to Texas in large numbers.6. How did Johann Friedrich Ernst help German settlement of Texas?7. What was the Adelsverein and what did it do?Section 4: In the 1800s, many causes led people from distant places to settle in Texas.8. Why did people from Alsace come to Texas?9. What are three other groups of Europeans who came to Texas in the 1800s?

Pictionary

• You will be given a word to describe either through pantomime or sketch. The others will determine which word your are interpreting.

• A correct response will be given by definition.

• Land grant• Emigrate• Lower South• Upper South• Assimilate• Utopia• manumission• Nobles

Warm up March 11, 2015

North

Reconstruction

South

Battles

In this venn diagram add the causes of the war in the center and the contrasts outer circle.

List the major battles and their significance.

In this circle add the key aspects of Reconstruction.

Think about the contrasts before the war started.

North SouthLife of slaves

Battles in Texas

• What were the significant points and figures.

Sabine

Galveston

Red River Campaign

Trans Mississippi

Laredo

Brownsville

Palmetto Ranch

Reconstruction

All the key events and significant

government actions.

Main Ideas we covered in Chapter 11 Think about the main idea of each section and

answer the questions below, in your spiral.Section 1: Disagreements about slavery and the rights of states led Texas to withdraw from the United

States and become part of the Confederacy.1. Why was slavery important to Texas and other Southern states?2. What did people from the South believe about states’ rights?3. Why did the election of 1860 lead Texas and other states to secede?Section 2: Texas soldiers helped fight Confederate battles east of the Mississippiwhile bravely defending Texas soil.4. Why did many Texas troops fight battles in Louisiana?5. Choose one of the Civil War battles fought in Texas and explain its significance.Section 3: Most Texans worked to produce goods to support themselves and theConfederacy during wartime. Others Texans tried to remain neutral.6. How did the women of Texas contribute to the Confederate war effort?7. What effect did the blockade have on Texas?8. What were three groups who remained loyal to the United States?Section 4: Texans endured almost 11 years of Reconstruction after the Civil War.9. Why did the government formed under the constitution of 1866 not end Reconstructionin Texas?10. The rights of what two groups were areas of conflict during Reconstruction?

Pictionary

• You will be given a word to describe either through pantomime or sketch. The others will determine which word your are interpreting.

• A correct response will be given by definition.

• Secede• Abolitionists• States Rights• Vigilante• Arsenals• Blockade • Blockade runners• Unionists• Juneteenth• Reconstructions• Amendment