At the Alamo 2000 Mexican troops besieged 188 Texans. A mission stationed in San Antonio. At San Jacinto Creek, Houston forces turned and attacked.
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Explain the Missouri Compromise?
The Missouri Compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state
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What was the Compromise of 1850?
Stronger fugitive slave laws, no more slave trade in DC and California became a state.
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What was the Dred-Scott Decision, what did it do?
Dred Scott is still a slave even though he passes over 36 degree 30 line & the consequence = no African can sue a fed. court &a ban on slavery unconstitutional
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Who was John Brown and what was his plan?
He was a fiery abolitionist who believed that his mission was to liberate enslaved people and punish slave holders
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What was the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
A Peace Treaty & it started that the U.S. gained full title of Texas with the Rio Grande as a boundary. The U.S. also gained CA & all of what was called NM
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________ was the President who let Texas into the Union
John Tyler
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What happened at the Battle of Bull Run?
On June 21, 1861 the Union army captured Richmond V about 30 miles from DC. 30,000 northern troops met a smaller confederate force near a stream called Bull Run
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What happened at the CA gold rush?
Gold was discovered in CA and people told stories about instant riches, then came the Goldrush from the Eastern US and Europe. Gold was discovered in CA in 1849
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Who were Generals Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett?
Jim Bowie was an American Pioneer and was also known for his sand bar fight and Davy Crockett was a U.S. Representative and Soldier, he was from Tennessee
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Who were Generals Santa Anna, Sam Houston, William Travis?
Santa Anna = President of Mexico, Sam Houston = Military leader of TX, William Travis = American lawyer & soldier
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Why did the South leave the Union, Who was the first to leave and what did they form?
Abraham Lincoln and his Majority of Republicans, South Carolina, Formed the Confederate States of America
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Explain the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act provided that the Trans Missouri region be divided into two new territories, Nebraska and Kansas
