Ch 12 and 13
Who was captured after the Battle of San Jacinto?
Santa Anna
What was used for transportation before railroads?
stagecoach
Events from West Texas wars
Palo Duro Canyon right
How did railroad monopolies affect farmers?
companies could charge whatever they wanted for shipping crops
How did Texans support the war effort?
military training
Treaties of Velasco
Public: Mexican troops leave Texas
Private: Texas is seen as independent and Rio Grande is the border
Annexation of Texas
Polk was elected - 1844 annexation
Effect of railroad construction
towns built and easier transportation
helped shape Texas A&M
What was Kelly Field's importance in the war?
training ground for the U.S. airforce
Archives War
archives and capital stay in Austin
Why was the mortality rate high during the Civil War?
disease; camps were unsanitary
Buffalo Soldiers
African American soldiers fighting in the West
Early uses of oil
repair, medicine, and light
U.S. president during the Great Depression
Herbert Hoover (and Franklin Roosevelt)
Republic of Texas's economic growth
in dept
Juneteenth
June 19 - when slavery ended in Texas
Who worked as cowboys?
Mexican and African Americans
Spindletop
oil rig in Texas that hit big in 1901
Period of unusually hot, dry weather during the 1930s
Dust Bowl
Who set aside land in 1839-1840 for public education?
Mirabeau B. Lamar
Era of Reconstruction
reorganization on seceded states
Method of farming switched to in the late 1800s
dry farming
Zimmerman telegraph
Germany's foreign minister telegraph to Mexico stating that Germany would help Mexico gain Texas back
New Deal
helped unemployed and created social security