1. Assess the situation of Texans following the Battle of San Jacinto being sure to identify specific problems and challenges.
2. Identify the outcomes of the September, 1836 elections in the new republic and the specifics of the governmental system adopted.
3. Describe and evaluate the effectiveness of President Sam Houston’s efforts during his first term in each of the following areas:
1. securing diplomatic recognition of the Republic of Texas
2. finances
3. land policy national defense vis-à-vis both the Republic of Mexico and the Indian population
4. Contrast Mirabeau B. Lamar’s presidency with that of Houston paying particular attention to possible annexation, Indian policy, expenditures, and the deteriorating financial picture.
5. Evaluate President Houston’s second administration considering each of the following:
1. budget reductions to address deteriorating finances
2. response to Mexican raids
6. Be familiar with the political controversy the possibility of Texas annexation caused in the United States, the means by which annexation was finally achieved, and the terms of Texas’ admission.
7. Identify the importance of each of the following:
1. Battle of the Neches
2. Council House Fight
3. Great Comanche Raid on Linnville and Victoria
4. Battle of Plum Creek

Chapter 6 – “The 28th State in the Union, 1845-1861”

1. Describe the role the annexation of Texas played in both causing the Mexican War while at the same time intensifying the battle throughout the United States regarding the expansion of slavery.
2. Evaluate the Texas-New Mexico boundary dispute’s impact on sectional tension in the United States being sure to identify the terms of the dispute’s resolution.
3. Identify annexation’s impact upon Texas’ western frontier.
4. Be familiar with population growth following annexation and the variety of ethnic and racial groups flowing into Texas.
5. Identify and describe the various social classes that characterized Texas in the era of early statehood.
6. Identify the impact of each of the following on the attitudes of Texans on whether or not to remain a part of the American union:
1. John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia
2. the abolitionist movement
3. the “Texas troubles”
4. the emergence of the new Republican party committed to prohibiting the geographic expansion of slavery
7. Trace the process by which Texas seceded from the union being sure to identify proponents and opponents of the decisions (both individuals, groups, and regions).
8. Evaluate why certain sections of the state supported and others opposed secession.
9. Identify the importance of each of the following:
1. Missouri Compromise
2. Nueces Strip
3. Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo (1848)
4. Compromise of 1850
5. Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
6. Juan Cortina
7. Knights of the Golden Circle

Chapter 7 – “Texas During the Civil War, 1861-1865”

1. Identify and explain the various factors motivating Texans to serve in the Confederate war effort.
2. Discuss the experiences of Texans fighting east of the Mississippi River and the importance of their contributions.
3. Be familiar with each of the following conflicts being sure to identify goals, outcome, and importance:
1. the Confederate invasion of New Mexico
2. Union seizure of Corpus Christi and Galveston
3. the Battle of Sabine Pass
4. the Battle of Brownsville
5. the Battles of Mansfield and Pleasant Hill
4. Discuss the problem of Texans’ desertion from the Confederate military.
5. Describe life on the home front in Texas during the war years – stresses, changes, and sacrifices.
6. Evaluate the extent and manifestations of dissent against the war effort.
7. Be familiar with the war’s impact on the state’s western frontier.
8. Identify the importance of each of the following:
1. the Texas cotton trade through Mexico
2. Santos Benavides
3. Camp Ford
4. refuge slaves from other states
5. the Great Gainsville Hanging
6. the Battle of Nueces

Chapter 8 – “Reconstruction in Texas: The Unfinished Civil War, 1865-1874”

1. Evaluate the contention that it is “a more constructive” interpretation “to examine the era from 1861 to 1877 as two distinct phases of a continuous conflict between northern and southern states” rather than viewing the Civil War and Reconstruction as separate eras and phenomena. What commonalities did they share?
2. Contrast the wartime Reconstruction views and programs of President Abraham Lincoln and Congress as revealed in the Ten Percent Plan and the Wade-Davis Bill.
3. Identify the requirements of postwar Presidential Reconstruction as laid down by Andrew Johnson.
4. Identify the mission of the Freedmen’s Bureau and evaluate the hurdles it faced in Texas following the war and emancipation.
5. Be familiar with each of the following battles of Presidential Reconstruction and how they reflected an unrepentant attitude and effort to preserve as much as possible of antebellum Texas society:
1. the constitutional convention of 1866
2. statewide elections and the constitutional referendum of 1866
3. the actions of the Eleventh Legislature
4. reaction to the presence of occupation forces
6. Identify the new requirements and methodologies set by Congress when it seized control of Reconstruction in 1866-1867.
7. Describe in detail Texans’ response to Congressional Reconstructing being sure to be familiar with each of the following:
1. the constitutional convention of 1868-69 and the document/governmental system it produced
2. how fully congressional requirements were met
3. the changing partisan composition of the electorate, the legislature, and the new state government
4. the level of violence related to Reconstruction
8. Evaluate and discuss the gubernatorial administration and performance of Edmund J. Davis and the Twelfth Legislature. How was the Davis government different from any that had preceded it and why was it so controversial?
9. Chronicle the end of the Reconstruction era being sure to identify each of the following:
1. the special congressional election of 1871
2. the Amnesty Act of 1872
3. the general legislative election of November, 1872 producing the Thirteenth Legislature
4. the actions of the Thirteenth Legislature
5. the gubernatorial election of December, 1873
10. Identify the importance of each of the following:
1. “ironclad oath”
2. Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments
3. “black codes”
4. Texas State Police
5. martial law
6. Ku Klux Klan
7. Ex parte Rodriguez (the Semicolon case)