Last Days
Twice he was elected president of the republic.
Who is Sam Houston?
This was the first event that led to Texas becoming the 28th state.
What is President Polk becoming president?
This is what stated rules of the state government, set taxes, and made it clear how the government would be set up.
What is the constitution?
These were the different places people arrived from when Texas welcomed new Texans.
What are Mexico, southern United States, Germany, Poland and other countries of Europe?
These were the four reasons immigrants came to Texas.
What was escaping problems, new opportunities, natural resources, and land and waterways filled with resources?
This is when a territory becomes part of a larger country.
What is annexation?
This is known as a decision.
What is a resolution?
This is the group of elected people who make new laws and would meet every two years..
What is the legislature?
This was the agreement between German settlers and American Indian tribes that found a solution on how land could be settled.
What is the Meusebach-Comanche Treaty?
This is the nation's oldest permanent Polish settlement. It was founded in 1854.
What is Panna Maria?
These were the three problems that the Republic of Texas had as an independent country.
What are protection, debt, support/services?
These were the two parts of the resolution that would allow Texas to become the 28th state.
What was keeping the land and turning over its military forts to the U.S. government?
This man was the first governor of Texas.
Who was James Pinckney Henderson?
This was the amount of land that the Meusebach-Comanche Treaty made available for settlement.
What is 3 million acres of land?
These were the economic activities early Texans engaged in to meet their needs and earn their living.
What were farmers, ranchers, store owners, hotel owners, mill operators?
These were the disagreements the U.S. leaders had with Texas becoming a state.
What were debt and slavery?
This was the congress that voted unanimously for annexation on June 16, 1845.
What is the Texas Congress?
These were the people the constitution said could hold office and vote.
Who are men over the age of 21 who were Anglo, or European, and Tejano, or Mexican Texans?
This is what all of the immigrants brought that made Texas so diverse.
What are cultures?
This is the event that happened on December 29, 1845.