HY 103 COMPREHENSIVE EXAM ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Panic of 1873 - ✔✔-Four year economic depression caused by overspeculation on
railroads and western lands
-worsened by Grant's poor fiscal response
-worst depression US had ever seen
✔✔Rutherford Hayes - ✔✔-brought post civil war reconstruction to an end in the south
-allowed segregation
✔✔Compromise of 1877 - ✔✔-Ended Reconstruction
-Republicans promise 1) Remove military from South, 2) Appoint Democrat to cabinet
(David Key postmaster general), 3) Federal money for railroad construction and levees
on Mississippi river
✔✔antonio lopez de santa anna - ✔✔He runs for Mexican president as a Federalista,
gets in office, and switches sides to the opposition party, Centralista (more
conservative)
1833-34 Then declares himself a dictator, suspends the constitution
✔✔esteban austin - ✔✔helps mexicans shut down white/english speaking revolt; wants
mexico to have its own constitution
✔✔erasmo seguin - ✔✔Helped Stephen F Austin get land grants and helped write the
Mexican Constitution
✔✔sam houston - ✔✔Commander of the Texas army at the battle of San Jacinto; later
elected president of the Republic of Texas
✔✔the alamo - ✔✔Santana toward the Alamo, with 1500 men, Alamo is badly
outnumbered (only 150 men)
, Feb 2, 1836 Santana surrounds them at the Alamo
Davey Crockett was at the Alamo
March 6, Santana orders the Alamo stormed (wants that military glory)
Doesn't wait for his heavy artillery, loses about a third of his army
Defenders of the Alamo resist for as long as they can
None of the white men survived the Alamo, but Santana let most of the Hispanic and
Anglo women go
✔✔goliad - ✔✔General Urrea takes POWs, takes better care of them
Santana finds out about this, orders those prisoners executed
Of 300 men at Goliad, there are 28 survivors
Aftermath of this, Texan forces swell by 40% (full of angry white men from the US)
✔✔san jacinto - ✔✔santana confident rebellion crushed, doesn't set up sentries;
Houston orders surprise attack and defeats him; forces Sanatana to sign treaty or die
(not viewed as legitimate)
✔✔john tyler - ✔✔elected Vice President and became the 10th President of the United
States when Harrison died 1841-1845, President responsible for annexation of Mexico
after receiving mandate from Polk, opposed many parts of the Whig program for
economic recovery
✔✔manifest destiny - ✔✔isthmus of panama to northpole and sea to sea; obvious route
for the americans; whigs opposed expanding
✔✔james k. polk - ✔✔Owns 3 plantations and a couple hundred slaves
Get elected to pursue the Manifest Destiny policy
✔✔wilmot proviso - ✔✔Attaches the proviso to the war; none of the territory acquired for
this war may be used for slavery; David Wilmot is actually very racist, he's just concern
on the impacts of slavery on free white workers--Thinks they'll have difficulty going West
finding jobs because slaves will work for less
does not get adopted or make it into the final bill; Northern and Southern democrats
vote against it; politics shifting to regional rather than by party
Northern wigs vote for Wilmot proviso, Southerners vote against it
People start to feel more like "Southerners" than Whigs; Connections between regions
fray but not broken yet
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Panic of 1873 - ✔✔-Four year economic depression caused by overspeculation on
railroads and western lands
-worsened by Grant's poor fiscal response
-worst depression US had ever seen
✔✔Rutherford Hayes - ✔✔-brought post civil war reconstruction to an end in the south
-allowed segregation
✔✔Compromise of 1877 - ✔✔-Ended Reconstruction
-Republicans promise 1) Remove military from South, 2) Appoint Democrat to cabinet
(David Key postmaster general), 3) Federal money for railroad construction and levees
on Mississippi river
✔✔antonio lopez de santa anna - ✔✔He runs for Mexican president as a Federalista,
gets in office, and switches sides to the opposition party, Centralista (more
conservative)
1833-34 Then declares himself a dictator, suspends the constitution
✔✔esteban austin - ✔✔helps mexicans shut down white/english speaking revolt; wants
mexico to have its own constitution
✔✔erasmo seguin - ✔✔Helped Stephen F Austin get land grants and helped write the
Mexican Constitution
✔✔sam houston - ✔✔Commander of the Texas army at the battle of San Jacinto; later
elected president of the Republic of Texas
✔✔the alamo - ✔✔Santana toward the Alamo, with 1500 men, Alamo is badly
outnumbered (only 150 men)
, Feb 2, 1836 Santana surrounds them at the Alamo
Davey Crockett was at the Alamo
March 6, Santana orders the Alamo stormed (wants that military glory)
Doesn't wait for his heavy artillery, loses about a third of his army
Defenders of the Alamo resist for as long as they can
None of the white men survived the Alamo, but Santana let most of the Hispanic and
Anglo women go
✔✔goliad - ✔✔General Urrea takes POWs, takes better care of them
Santana finds out about this, orders those prisoners executed
Of 300 men at Goliad, there are 28 survivors
Aftermath of this, Texan forces swell by 40% (full of angry white men from the US)
✔✔san jacinto - ✔✔santana confident rebellion crushed, doesn't set up sentries;
Houston orders surprise attack and defeats him; forces Sanatana to sign treaty or die
(not viewed as legitimate)
✔✔john tyler - ✔✔elected Vice President and became the 10th President of the United
States when Harrison died 1841-1845, President responsible for annexation of Mexico
after receiving mandate from Polk, opposed many parts of the Whig program for
economic recovery
✔✔manifest destiny - ✔✔isthmus of panama to northpole and sea to sea; obvious route
for the americans; whigs opposed expanding
✔✔james k. polk - ✔✔Owns 3 plantations and a couple hundred slaves
Get elected to pursue the Manifest Destiny policy
✔✔wilmot proviso - ✔✔Attaches the proviso to the war; none of the territory acquired for
this war may be used for slavery; David Wilmot is actually very racist, he's just concern
on the impacts of slavery on free white workers--Thinks they'll have difficulty going West
finding jobs because slaves will work for less
does not get adopted or make it into the final bill; Northern and Southern democrats
vote against it; politics shifting to regional rather than by party
Northern wigs vote for Wilmot proviso, Southerners vote against it
People start to feel more like "Southerners" than Whigs; Connections between regions
fray but not broken yet
