Texas Revolution
Texas Rangers
group that tried to protect settlers
U.S. offer to Texas
If you join, we will pay your war debt
Sam Houston
wants to annex Texas for Protection
Mexican Cession
one of the territories the U.S. got during the war
most votes for yes to Texas
from the south
Economy of Texas
Cotton farming and cattle ranching
Reasons against annexation
$$
add a slave state
war with Mexico
Mirabeau Lamar
Father of Education
Manifest destiny
U.S. destined to expand from coast to coast
Most votes for no Texas
the North
1st president of Texas
Sam Houston
Why Texas wanted to join
protection and financial help
Sam Houston on Secession
did not want Texas to secede
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo gave us
Gained 7 states
Rio Grande became the border of Texas
Germans lived where in Texas
in central texas
Second President of Texas
Mirabeau Lamar
The northern U.S.
did not approve of Slavery
1845
Texas joined the U.S.
15 million
how much the U.S. had to pay mexico
Nueces River
Boundary Mexico wanted for Texas
Governor of Texas during civil war (also a TX president)
Sam Houston
The southern U.S.
used slavery as economic backbone
Texas Secession Convention
when Texas declares they will secede from the U.S.
Secede
to leave or seperate
Rio Grande
U.S. border for Texas