1.1 Discuss the impact of Texas’s physical geography and early history.
1.2 Summarize the influence of the cotton economy, slavery, and western expansion in early Texas.
1.3 Evaluate the causes and consequences of the U.S.-Mexican War.
1.4 Discuss the reasons for Texas seceding from the Union.
1.5 Evaluate the Reconstruction Era and its influence on the Constitution of 1876.
1.6 Assess the long-term effects of Jim Crow segregation.