Chapter 12 Test Review

After Texas was admitted to the Union, the next step was to draft and adopt a ____Constitution__________________________.

The Constitution of 1845 establishes the executive offices if ____Governor______ and _____Lt. Governor_________.

Mexico refused to accept the Treaties of Velasco because they claimed that Santa Anna signed the treaties only because__he feared for his life_.

After Texas is annexed and Mexico threatens war, President James Polk sends _John Slidell__ to negotiate and ease __tensions__ between the countries.

The Treaty of Guadalupe establishes:

___The Mexican Cession, the southern boundary of Texas at the Rio Grande, and Manifest Destiny for the US.

The Compromise of 1850 has 5 statutes. They are:

1. amends the fugitive slave law

2. admits California as a free state

3. admits New Mexico and Utah as territories

4. abolishes slave trade in Washington, DC

5. establishes the border between Texas and the US-TX sells western lands for $10M

The Gadsen Purchase of 1853 allowed the U.S. to expand the _____the transcontinental railroad__.

What capital city would have been included within the Texas borders if Texas had been able to secure nearly half of New Mexico as they had wanted?____Santa Fe, NM_______________________

Abolitionist did not want Texas admitted into the Union because it was a slave__ state.

Before the fighting began between the US and Mexico, Mariano Arista moved his troops just north of the _Rio Grande_____________.

Fighting began in the US-Mexican war in the _disputed area between Texas and Mexico.

The US wanted control of California and all the land between Texas and the Pacific Coast as a part of their _Manifest Destiny____.

**Study all of the vocabulary words from Chapter 12.

**Become familiar with the maps in your book on pages 272 & 279