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TEXES Social Studies 4 to 8 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE JUST
RELEASED THIS YEAR
Question: A United States sectional political crisis in 1832-33, during the presidency of Andrew
Jackson, which involved a confrontation between South Carolina and the federal government. It
ensued after South Carolina declared that the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were
unconstitutional and therefore null and void within the sovereign boundaries of the state. -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Nullification Crisis
Question: A slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, during August
1831. Led by Nat Turner, rebel slaves killed from 55 to 65 people. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Nat
Turner's Slave Rebellion
Question: Passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the
Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers. It
required that all escaped slaves were, upon capture, to be returned to their masters and that
officials and citizens of free states had to cooperate in this law. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Fugitive
Slave Act of 1850
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Question: A package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September
1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states on the
status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). The compromise,
drafted by Whig Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky and brokered by Clay and Democratic Senator
Stephen Douglas of Illinois, reduced sectional conflict. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Compromise of
1850
Question: An armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican
States (Mexico) from 1846 to 1848. It followed in the wake of the 1845 American annexation of
the independent Republic of Texas, which Mexico still considered its northeastern province and
a part of its territory after its de facto secession in the 1836 Texas Revolution a decade earlier. -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Mexican-American War
Question: A rebellion of colonists from the United States and Tejanos (Texas Mexicans) in
putting up armed resistance to the centralist government of Mexico; opposed to the regime of
President Antonio López de Santa Anna, the Mexican government believed the United States
had instigated the Texas insurrection with the goal of annexation. The Texas war of
independence ended on April 21, 1836, but Mexico refused to recognize the independence of
the Republic of Texas, and intermittent conflicts between the two states continued into the
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1840s. The United States recognized the Republic of Texas in March 1837 but declined to annex
the territory. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Texas Revolution (1835-1836)
Question: A Mexican politician and general who fought to defend royalist New Spain and then
for Mexican independence. He greatly influenced early Mexican politics and government, and
was an adept soldier and cunning politician, who dominated Mexican history in the first half of
the nineteenth century to such an extent that historians often refer to it as the "Age of Santa
Anna". - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna (1794-1876)
Question: Type of personalist leader wielding military and political power. - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Caudillo
Question: An independent sovereign country in North America that existed from March 2,
1836, to February 19, 1846. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Republic of Texas (1836-1846)
Question: Two documents signed at Velasco, Texas on May 14, 1836, between Antonio López
de Santa Anna of Mexico and the Republic of Texas, in the aftermath of the Battle of San Jacinto
on April 21, 1836. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Treaties of Velasco
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Question: Fought on April 21, 1836, in present-day Harris County, Texas, was the decisive battle
of the Texas Revolution. Led by General Sam Houston, the Texian Army engaged and defeated
General Antonio López de Santa Anna's Mexican army in a fight that lasted just 18 minutes.
Santa Anna, the President of Mexico, was captured the following day and held as a prisoner of
war. Three weeks later, he signed the peace treaty that dictated that the Mexican army leave
the region, paving the way for the Republic of Texas to become an independent country. -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Battle of San Jacinto (1836)
Question: His victory at the Battle of San Jacinto secured the independence of Texas from
Mexico in one of the shortest decisive battles in modern history. He was also the only governor
within a future Confederate state to oppose secession (which led to the outbreak of the
American Civil War) and to refuse an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy, a decision that led
to his removal from office by the Texas secession convention. Performed military service during
the War of 1812. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Sam Houston
Question: The 1845 incorporation of the Republic of Texas into the United States of America,
which was admitted to the Union as the 28th state on December 29, 1845. The Democrats and
the Whigs, opposed the introduction of Texas, a vast slave-holding region, into the volatile
political climate of the pro- and anti-slavery sectional controversies in Congress; first signed by
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TEXES Social Studies 4 to 8 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE JUST
RELEASED THIS YEAR
Question: A United States sectional political crisis in 1832-33, during the presidency of Andrew
Jackson, which involved a confrontation between South Carolina and the federal government. It
ensued after South Carolina declared that the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were
unconstitutional and therefore null and void within the sovereign boundaries of the state. -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Nullification Crisis
Question: A slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, during August
1831. Led by Nat Turner, rebel slaves killed from 55 to 65 people. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Nat
Turner's Slave Rebellion
Question: Passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the
Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers. It
required that all escaped slaves were, upon capture, to be returned to their masters and that
officials and citizens of free states had to cooperate in this law. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Fugitive
Slave Act of 1850
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Question: A package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September
1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states on the
status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). The compromise,
drafted by Whig Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky and brokered by Clay and Democratic Senator
Stephen Douglas of Illinois, reduced sectional conflict. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Compromise of
1850
Question: An armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican
States (Mexico) from 1846 to 1848. It followed in the wake of the 1845 American annexation of
the independent Republic of Texas, which Mexico still considered its northeastern province and
a part of its territory after its de facto secession in the 1836 Texas Revolution a decade earlier. -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Mexican-American War
Question: A rebellion of colonists from the United States and Tejanos (Texas Mexicans) in
putting up armed resistance to the centralist government of Mexico; opposed to the regime of
President Antonio López de Santa Anna, the Mexican government believed the United States
had instigated the Texas insurrection with the goal of annexation. The Texas war of
independence ended on April 21, 1836, but Mexico refused to recognize the independence of
the Republic of Texas, and intermittent conflicts between the two states continued into the
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1840s. The United States recognized the Republic of Texas in March 1837 but declined to annex
the territory. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Texas Revolution (1835-1836)
Question: A Mexican politician and general who fought to defend royalist New Spain and then
for Mexican independence. He greatly influenced early Mexican politics and government, and
was an adept soldier and cunning politician, who dominated Mexican history in the first half of
the nineteenth century to such an extent that historians often refer to it as the "Age of Santa
Anna". - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna (1794-1876)
Question: Type of personalist leader wielding military and political power. - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Caudillo
Question: An independent sovereign country in North America that existed from March 2,
1836, to February 19, 1846. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Republic of Texas (1836-1846)
Question: Two documents signed at Velasco, Texas on May 14, 1836, between Antonio López
de Santa Anna of Mexico and the Republic of Texas, in the aftermath of the Battle of San Jacinto
on April 21, 1836. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Treaties of Velasco
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Question: Fought on April 21, 1836, in present-day Harris County, Texas, was the decisive battle
of the Texas Revolution. Led by General Sam Houston, the Texian Army engaged and defeated
General Antonio López de Santa Anna's Mexican army in a fight that lasted just 18 minutes.
Santa Anna, the President of Mexico, was captured the following day and held as a prisoner of
war. Three weeks later, he signed the peace treaty that dictated that the Mexican army leave
the region, paving the way for the Republic of Texas to become an independent country. -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Battle of San Jacinto (1836)
Question: His victory at the Battle of San Jacinto secured the independence of Texas from
Mexico in one of the shortest decisive battles in modern history. He was also the only governor
within a future Confederate state to oppose secession (which led to the outbreak of the
American Civil War) and to refuse an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy, a decision that led
to his removal from office by the Texas secession convention. Performed military service during
the War of 1812. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Sam Houston
Question: The 1845 incorporation of the Republic of Texas into the United States of America,
which was admitted to the Union as the 28th state on December 29, 1845. The Democrats and
the Whigs, opposed the introduction of Texas, a vast slave-holding region, into the volatile
political climate of the pro- and anti-slavery sectional controversies in Congress; first signed by
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