Texas Leaders
The president of Texas when it was annexed. Last president of Texas
In which year did Texas gain its independence? Annexation?
1836; 1845
What does annexation mean?
Adding land to a country through peace or force.
Which Texas president was chosen to be part of the U.S senate?
Sam Houston
What years did the Mexican-American war take up?
During which presidency did the Sante Fe and Mier Expedition take place?
Mirabeau B. Lamar
What was the attempted expedition to gain land for Texas called? What happened?
Sante Fe Expedition; Texans were caught and forced to march 1,400 miles to prison in Mexico City.
Texas was the ______ state added to the Union?
28th
Which U.S president started the process of annexation, but was not in office when it was eventually taken?
John Tyler
This city was sieged and eventually taken over by U.S forces in the Mexican American war
Veracruz
The only Tejano to sign the Texas Declaration of Independence
Also spent 4 years in prison and escaped back to Texas
Jose Antonio Navarro
A skirmish at a city building where Texans and Native Americans fought after failed peace negotiations.
Bonus 50 pts: Who was the chief of these indians?
Council House Fight
Chief Bowles
Why were Americans worried about adding Texas to the Union? Which states supported it?
Slavery; Southern States supported it.
Texas originally had land that would become parts of which states? (2)
New Mexico; Colorado
The general that replaced Zachary Taylor in the Mexican Invasion.
General Winfield Scott
This president:
Supported peace with Native Americans
Wanted Annexation
Reduced Debt
Sam Houston
The largest problems that Texans faced during its time as a country? (2)
Large National Debt
The threat of Mexican invasion
This U.S president was in office when Texas was annexed.
James. K Polk
This major agreement between the United States government and Texas settled Texas’s western boundary and paid Texas $10 million.
Compromise of 1850
Who started the Mexican-American War? How?
The U.S purposefully sent 70 troops into Mexican territory, and when these were killed/captured, they blamed Mexico for starting the war
Supported moving westward, even moving the capital to Austin in 1839.
Mirabeau B. Lamar
Texas claimed that its borders stopped at the ____________ River, but Mexico claimed that they stopped at the ___________ River.
Rio Grande; Nueces
What was the United States idea that everything west of the first 13 colonies would eventually be part of the country?
Manifest Destiny
The population of Texas grew from ___________ to ____________ after it was annexed.
200k to over 600k
This treaty ended the Mexican–American War in 1848 and forced Mexico to give large amounts of land to the United States.
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo