Vocabulary
The Republic of Texas
Westward Expansion
Texas Joins the United States
Presidents of Texas
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Remember?? (Previous Units)
100
happening or meeting every two years
Biennial
100
Who was voted to be the FIRST ELECTED President of Texas?
Sam Houston
100
How did many settlers to Texas get down the Mississippi River?
Flatboats, later Steamboats
100
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What NUMBER state was Texas when it was annexed into the United States?
28th
100
When President Houston took office, he dismissed (or fired) most of the Texas army and replaced it with ________________.....Also, WHY did he do this?
The Texas Rangers; to help reduce government spending (Decrease Texas' DEBT)
100
Why did the Texans become angry and not allow the Comanche to leave the Council House in March of 1840?
The Comanche only brought 1 hostage/captive they had taken during raids on Texan settlements and her (Matilda Lockhart) nose was burned off.
100
What Natural Region of Texas do we live in?
Coastal Plains
200
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The belief that the United States should stretch from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
Manifest Destiny
200
Why did many U.S. Congressmen NOT want Texas to become a state?
1. Slave State
2. Large Debt
3. Anger Mexico
200
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What unit was created by Stephen F. Austin to help protect the frontier from Native and Mexican attacks on settlers?
Texas Rangers
200
In WHAT YEAR was Texas annexed by the United States?
1845
200
Which President of Texas is known as "The Father of Texas Education" because he set aside public land and tax dollars to build schools and universities?
Mirabeau B. Lamar
200
What was the largest IMMIGRANT group coming to Texas in the 1830s and 1840s (where were they from)??
Germans (Germany).
200
Who did Thomas Jefferson (the 3rd U.S. President) get the Louisiana Purchase from in 1803?
Napoleon, emperor of France (it was French territory)
300
Areas of land designated or set aside for Native American living
Reservations
300
Name two reasons WHY the people of Texas voted to be annexed to the United States
1. to eliminate the DEBT (the U.S. would absorb the financial hardship)
2. Many Texan settlers had moved FROM the United States previously; wanted to return to American culture.
3. The U.S. Army would help with Native American raids.
4. The U.S. could deal with Mexico since the Mexican government STILL refused to see Texas as independent.
300
Whose diary have many historians used as a PRIMARY SOURCE because it details so much of daily life/occurrences in the Republic of Texas?
Mary Maverick
300
What does POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY mean?
The only powers that the government have come FROM the PEOPLE (consent of the governed)
300
What was the worthless paper money called that Lamar had printed in an effort to help decrease the debt?
Redbacks
300
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The uprising that occurred when Tejanos and the Cherokee allied with each other and took up arms against the government of Texas....
the Cordova Rebellion
300
What were Spanish military forts called?
Presidios
400
Groups of people who help elect government officials and influence policies.
Political Parties
400
Who was the black Nacogdoches businessman who helped Sam Houston negotiate a treaty with the Cherokee during the Texas Revolution and was eventually told he had to leave Texas or face being enslaved again?
William Goyens
400
What leader of the Cherokee was killed at the Battle of the Neches?
Chief Bowles
400
Who was appointed as a Captain of the Texas Rangers that introduced training for new recruits and developed the professional look tradition that the Rangers still have today.
Jack Coffee Hays
400
Who did Sam Houston appoint as his Secretary of State in his first term? (HINT: He died only 3 months into his term as secretary).
Stephen F. Austin
400
What happened to the Texas militia on the Mier Expedition?
They were captured by the Mexican army and marched to Mexico City where Santa Anna had them draw beans to determine who would be killed and the others imprisoned (1 out of 10 were killed).
400
Who is called "The Father of Texas"?
Stephen F. Austin
500
supporting the END of SLAVERY
abolition (to abolish is to get rid of)
500
What battle occurred when President Lamar sent the Rangers into East Texas to force the Cherokee off their land?
The Battle of the Neches
500
About how many Comanche died at the Council House fight? How many Texans?
About 35 Comanche
About 7 Texans
500
Who was President of TEXAS AND who was the President of the United States when Texas was finally annexed?
President Anson Jones (Texas) and James K. Polk (United States)
500
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"The Republic of Texas is no more".....which President of Texas would have said this?
Dr. Anson Jones (The LAST President of Texas)
500
Name the four (really 3) Presidents of the Republic of Texas
Houston, Lamar, Houston (again), and Dr. Anson Jones
500
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What was the main thing Christopher Columbus looking for when he discovered North America?
An all-water trade route to Asia
600
religious folk songs
spirituals
600
Where did Lamar move the capital of Texas? Where was it before? Why did he say he did this? Why did he probably REALLY do it?
Moved from Houston to Austin; he said it was more "centrally-located" in the Republic. He REALLY wanted to undo something else Sam Houston had done and continue to rub dirt in his face
600
What treaty ended the Mexican-American War in 1848?
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
600
What was Anson Jones' profession (job) before he was elected President of Texas?
Medical Doctor
600
Why was Sam Houston more sympathetic (cared about) to Native Americans than Lamar?
Sam Houston lived with and spoke Cherokee, he admired their culture
600
Where did President Lamar send a military expedition that failed and resulted in hundreds of Texan soldiers being imprisoned by Mexico?
Santa Fe
600
What were the first group of American settlers that Stephen F. Austin brought into Texas called?
"The Old Three Hundred"