Texas TEKS 7.4.C
The Standard
identify individuals, events, and issues during early Texas statehood, including the U.S.- Mexican War, the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, slavery, and the Compromise of 1850.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Social Studies
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What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students match key people to their roles in early Texas statehood. They place major events in order and describe how war, new borders, slavery, and land claims affected Texas.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students correctly connect leaders such as James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, and Nicholas Trist to their actions. They explain that the treaty ended the war and that the 1850 agreement changed Texas boundaries and debt.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think the treaty annexed Texas, but annexation happened before the war. They may also think the 1850 agreement ended slavery in Texas or gave Texas all its claimed western land.
How to Assess It
- Ask students to order annexation, the war, the treaty, and the 1850 agreement. Then have them write one result of the treaty and one result of the agreement.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs person, event, date, and result cards to arrange into a timeline from 1845 through 1850, then check each match.
Ask students to write which event changed Texas most, using two facts about borders, debt, war, or slavery.
Play clue bingo using Polk, Taylor, Trist, the war, the treaty, slavery, and the 1850 agreement as answer squares.
Use modern and historical Texas maps to trace the Rio Grande and compare claimed territory with the state boundary created in 1850.
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