Presidents of the Republic
The first president of the Republic of Texas
Who is Sam Houston?
The one issue that Sam Houston and Mirabeau Lamar agreed on
What is education?
The easiest way to solve the issues of debt and protection
What was annexation?
The Nueces and the Rio Grande
What were the rivers Mexico and the U.S. believed to be the border between Texas and Mexico?
He furloughed the soldiers in the army
What did Sam Houston do to try to lower the debt in Texas?
The second president of the Republic of Texas
Who is Mirabeau Lamar?
The people in Texas who were being pushed off of land due to Anglo and European settlement
Who were Native Americans?
The Republic should spread as far as the Pacific Ocean, not become part of the United States
What did Mirabeau Lamar believe?
The Nueces River
What did Mexico say was the border between the Texas and Mexico?
Popular Sovereignty, Individual Rights, Separation of Powers, Limited Government, Republicanism, Checks and Balances, and Federalism
What are the seven principles of government?
The president of the Republic of Texas who declared a "war of extermination" on the Native Americans in Texas
Who is Mirabeau Lamar?
Lamar's ambitions made it much worse
What is the debt in the Republic of Texas?
The United States should not be allowed to get any bigger
What did England believe about annexation?
The Rio Grande
What did the United States believe to be the border between Texas and Mexico?
Cheap land and freedom of religion
What attracted thousands of Germans to immigrate to the Republic of Texas?
The president of the Republic of Texas who believed that the government should work decrease the debt
Who is Sam Houston?
Sam Houston argued it should be far from the Mexican border, but Lamar wanted to honor the "Father of Texas"
What would be the capital of the Republic of Texas?
Mexico would be annexed to the United States
Why did Mexico not want Texas to become part of the United States?
What we call the land Mexico lost following the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
What is the Mexican Cession?
The Santa Fe Expedition and the Council House Fight
What are two events that show the tense relationships Texas had with Mexico and Native Americans?
The last president of the Republic who oversaw annexation to the United States
Who is Anson Jones?
The Treaties of Velasco were never formally accepted by the Mexican government
Why was there a threat of Mexican invasion of the Republic of Texas?
Because annexation would upset the balance of power in the United States, and would lead to war with Mexico
Why did some people in the U.S. not want to annex Texas?
California became a free state and the Fugitive Slave Law allowed slave catchers from the south to hunt down escaped slaves in the north
What did the Compromise of 1850 do?
The person whose life and death exemplify how Sam Houston and Mirabeau Lamar treated the challenge of Native Americans in Texas
Who is Chief Bowl?