1. Maps, Charts, and Timelines

2. Answer the following question in the outside portion of your group paper.
Looking at the events labeled on the timeline, which event do you think is the most important?
Write your answer in a complete sentence.
EX. The most important event is…., because…

3. Timeline of Early Texas Statehood, 1845-1860
Texas is admitted to the Union as the 28th State
1850
Vice President Millard
Fillmore signs the Texas
boundary –debt law
1846
The U.S.-Mexican War begins
over disputed territory
Between Texas and Mexico
1859
American Indians living
on the upper Brazos
reservation are forced to
move to Oklahoma
1850
The Compromise of the 1850
settles a border dispute between
Texas and New Mexico. Texas surrenders
its claim to New Mexico
1854
American Indian reservations are established along the upper Brazos River
1845
James Pinckney Henderson
becomes the state’s first governor
1848
The U.S.-Mexican War ends with the defeat of Mexico. Texas gains control of the disputed territory
1853
The Buffalo Bayou,
Brazos, and Colorado
Railroad begins
operation

4. Answer the following question in the outside portion of your group paper.
Explain how Mexico lost all of this land to the United States.
Write your answer in a complete sentence.
EX. Mexico lost the land by first… and then…

6. Answer the following question in the outside portion of your group paper.
What do these arrows tell you?
Write your answer in a complete sentence.
Ex. These arrows explain about the…

8. Answer the following question in the outside portion of your group paper.
Now that we have a detailed state map, which states were part of the Northern Territory?
Write your answer in a complete sentence.
EX. … were all part of the Northern Territory.

10. Answer the following question in the outside portion of your group paper.
Use the map below to explain about Manifest Destiny.
Write your answer in a complete sentence.
EX. Manifest Destiny is…, and it is shown on the map by…

12. Answer the following question in the outside portion of your group paper.
Write a question and answer of your choice about the graphic organizer for the Compromise of 1850.
Write your question and answer it in a complete sentence.
EX. What was the most important event in the Compromise of 1850?
It was…

13. Stronger fugitive slave law.
Slave trade banned in Washington D.C.
New Mexico and Utah became organized territories open to slavery.
California becomes a free state.
Texas gets 10 million dollars to pay off their debt in return for giving up their claims to land in New Mexico.
Compromise of 1850

14. Answer the following question in the outside portion of your group paper.
Explain about the uneasy peace between the North and South.
Answer the question in a complete sentence.
EX. There was an uneasy peace between the North and the South, because…

16. Answer the following question in the outside portion of your group paper.
Using the map below, how does the map show the growing tensions between the Northern States and the Southern States?
Write your answer in a complete sentence.
EX. The problem the states were facing was…

18. Answer the following question in the outside portion of your group paper.
This is a famous picture explaining Manifest Destiny. It is called “American Progress” by John Gast. It was painted in It is allegorical, which means that it is telling a story. Looking closely at the picture, tell me what you understand about the story.
Write your answer in complete sentences.
EX. I see…, and it means…