Empresarios
This system allowed individuals to bring settlers to Texas in exchange for land.
What is the empresario system?
One major reason Anglo-Americans moved to Texas was because land was this.
What is cheap/inexpensive?
This battle is considered the start of the Texas Revolution.
What is the Battle of Gonzales?
This belief encouraged Americans to expand westward.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This river was disputed as the U.S.–Mexico boundary.
What is the Rio Grande?
VETO
TERM LIMITS
IMPEACHMENT
WHAT IS CHECKS AND BALANCES
This empresario followed his father’s plan and founded San Felipe.
Who is Stephen F. Austin?
This 1830 law banned immigration from the United States. and also placed tariffs on foreign goods and limited slavery.
What is the Law of April 6, 1830? What is the Law of April 6, 1830?
This Texian leader wrote a letter asking for reinforcements at the Alamo.
Who is William B. Travis?
Many Americans opposed Texas annexation because it would expand this institution.
What is slavery?
This treaty ended the U.S.–Mexican War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
US CONSTITUTION
AND
TX CONSTITUTION
BOTH HAVE WHAT?
What is Separation of powers, checks and balances, and bill of rights
These two empresarios benefited from Mexico’s fear that Texas lacked settlers for defense.
Who are Green DeWitt and Martin de León?
These resolutions protested unconstitutional actions of the Mexican government.
What are the Turtle Bayou Resolutions?
This Texian leader died defending the Alamo.
Who is James Bowie or William B. Travis?
When did Texas officially become a state of the United States?
what is 12/29/1845
This U.S. president requested a declaration of war against Mexico.
Who is James K. Polk?
The term "bicameral" refers to the fact that Texas has
what is a two chamber legislature.
This empresario established a colony near present-day Gonzales to help protect Texas from Native American attacks.
Who is Green DeWitt?
The Law of April 6, 1830 angered Texians because it threatened their economy through limits on these three things.
What are immigration, trade, and slavery?
This battle resulted in Texas’s final and decisive victory.
What is the Battle of San Jacinto?
This compromise helped Texas pay debts and settle border disputes.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
As part of the treaty, Mexico sold this large region to the United States.
What is the Mexican Cession?
Executive-Enforces Laws
Legislative- Makes Laws
Judicial- Interprets Laws
What principle of government is reflected in the structure of the Texas Government?
It is based on Separation of Powers
This empresario originally received permission to settle Texas but died before completing the plan.
Who is Moses Austin?
Stopped immigration from the United States
Used generous land grants to encourage Mexican
and European families to come to Texas
Placed customs duties on goods made in foreign
nations
Outlawed slavery
What is events leading to the Texas Revolution?
This Texian general captured Santa Anna and secured independence for Texas.
Who is Sam Houston?
Mexico and the U.S. disagreed on the southern border of Texas. Mexico believed the ____________ was the border while the U.S. believed that the ___________ was the border.
what is Nueces River, Rio Grande River
Mexico argued Polk’s claim was inaccurate because they did not recognize this as the U.S. border.
What is the Rio Grande?
The President/Governor can do this to stop a bill from becoming a law.
What is a veto