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Defeating and capturing Santa Anna made this battle a complete victory for Texas.
What is San Jacinto?
This native American Territory/Tribes empire stretched from the Arkansas River in Colorado to the Rio Grande in Texas, and included parts of Kansas, New Mexico, and Oklahoma.
Comanche/ Comancheria
By the end of the 1920's, ______ had the largest population of any Texas City.
Houston
This crop revolutionized and transformed the southern U.S to a billion dollar industry
What is cotton?
The current Economy of the U.S and Western European Countries such as Britain and France which emphasizes individual economic freedom, private property, and profit-driven competition
Free Market Enterprise Capitalism
Who was known as the "Father of Texas"? Brought the first 300 Anglos families to Texas
Stephen F. Austin
If our legislature is BICAMERAL, it has this many houses. and what are they?
What is two? House of Representatives and the Senate
Last president of the Republic of Texas
Anson Jones
African American cavalry soldiers received this name from the Native Americans as a sign of respect, due to their fierce fighting on the western frontier of the U.S
What is Buffalo Soldiers?
This revolutionary innovation would interconnect the eastern and western United States together directly causing mass commerce, trade, productivity, and efficiency, throughout the U.S.
Transcontinental Railroad
This factor attracted many U.S settlers to Texas for a new start during Austin's time as an empresario.
What is cheap land?
Which Texas Constitution is still in effect today
Constitution of 1876
To this day, Texas and the western U.S receives the most cultural diffusion from this culture/nationality
What is Mexican?
In 1901, what natural resource was found at Spindletop?
What is Oil?
Name the 3 branches of the government
Judicial, Legislative, and Executive
This fort in San Antonio was the site of a battle where Mexican soldiers under Santa Anna defeated the Texans, inflicting heavy casualties and changing the course of the war
What is the Alamo?
First president of the Republic of Texas
Sam Houston
After the annexing of Texas and winning the Mexican War, America had completed THIS belief of stretching from the Atlantic to Pacific coast
What is manifest destiny?
Which culture taught the Texans how to ranch and eventually led to the Cattle Drive
Spanish
former volunteer colonel from Tennessee who helped defend the Alamo from Mexico?
Davy Crockett