Texas History Final Review 2025
Questions and Answers
Texas Republic - --Answer --Presidents- Houston, Lamar, Houston, Jones
faced lack of resources, debt, no security
Texas Statehood - --Answer --Came under President Jones on Dec 29, 1845
Mexican-American War - --Answer --Caused (led to) by US annexation of
Texas & The US wanted more Mexican land
Effect (after)- The US got the Mexican cession
Causes of Civil War - --Answer --Why did Texas join the South? States
Rights, Slavery, tariffs, sectionalism
Civil War Homefront Hardships - --Answer ---had to make own clothes
(homespun)
-had to use substitutes for shoes and coffee (boiled okra)
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, -food shortages
Reconstruction - --Answer ---Government rebuilding the country after Civil
War
-Question of How do we deal with the states that rebelled?
-Government had to figure out how to help the newly freed slaves
-13th Amendment: Free
-14th Amendment: Citizen
-15th Amendment: Vote (only for AA men not women)
Westward Expansion - --Answer --- US acquired land in the western portion
of the US
-More Land=More $$ = More Opportunities
Inventions during Westward Expansion - --Answer ---Windmill (pumping
water from underground, led to more farming)
-Barbed Wired Fence: Close of the open range (increased ranching)
-Railroads: made travel and transporting goods faster
Progressive Era - --Answer ---Women's Suffrage (right for women to vote)
-Temperance/Prohibition
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Questions and Answers
Texas Republic - --Answer --Presidents- Houston, Lamar, Houston, Jones
faced lack of resources, debt, no security
Texas Statehood - --Answer --Came under President Jones on Dec 29, 1845
Mexican-American War - --Answer --Caused (led to) by US annexation of
Texas & The US wanted more Mexican land
Effect (after)- The US got the Mexican cession
Causes of Civil War - --Answer --Why did Texas join the South? States
Rights, Slavery, tariffs, sectionalism
Civil War Homefront Hardships - --Answer ---had to make own clothes
(homespun)
-had to use substitutes for shoes and coffee (boiled okra)
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, -food shortages
Reconstruction - --Answer ---Government rebuilding the country after Civil
War
-Question of How do we deal with the states that rebelled?
-Government had to figure out how to help the newly freed slaves
-13th Amendment: Free
-14th Amendment: Citizen
-15th Amendment: Vote (only for AA men not women)
Westward Expansion - --Answer --- US acquired land in the western portion
of the US
-More Land=More $$ = More Opportunities
Inventions during Westward Expansion - --Answer ---Windmill (pumping
water from underground, led to more farming)
-Barbed Wired Fence: Close of the open range (increased ranching)
-Railroads: made travel and transporting goods faster
Progressive Era - --Answer ---Women's Suffrage (right for women to vote)
-Temperance/Prohibition
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