1.1 Discuss the impact of Texas’s physical geography and early history on the growth of settlements and their economies.
1.2 Summarize the influence of the cotton economy, slavery, and western expansion in early Texas.
1.3 Evaluate the challenges faced by the Texas Republic and the arguments for and against annexation by the United States.
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.