Texas as a State & Civil War

A "calvary" are skilled Texans who were horse back riders.

What day is Juneteenth celebrated?

The Emancipation Proclamation said that all persons held as slaves in the Confederacy would be free.

What president wanted to make sure slavery didn't spread West & thought if slavery stayed in the South it would end.

How much money did the U.S. pay Mexico?

President Polk asked Congress to pass a resolution, or decision, for TX to become a state.

A group of elected people who make new laws are called what?

What date did Texas become a state?

Most of the battles during the Civil War took place in the eastern part of the United States. 

Sam Houston was in favor of annexation. In other words, he wanted the territory of TX to be part of a larger country.

Was Wyoming a TERRITORY or a BORDER STATE? 

Was Texas a Union state or a Confederate state? 

A boundary is a line that separates one place from another.

Who was removed as governor because he refused to take the oath to the Confederacy?

What river became the southern border of Texas?

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was created to begin a new war with Mexico and the U.S. 

New York was part of the Union.

Mexico gave more than 500,000 acres of land to the United States.

The first battle of the Mexican-U.S. War was in Austin, Texas.

To secede from the United States means to join the nation.