Section 3
Most Texans, whether long-time residents or new immigrants, were _____.
Farmers and Ranchers
____, Stephen F. Austin’s cousin, had begun operating this boat on the lower Rio Grande in 1829. He traded with Mexican merchants and later took the Ariel up the Brazos River.
Henry Austin
After Texas independence, ____ was no longer the official state religion.
Roman Catholicism
_____, or traveling preachers, typically served regions on the frontier. They traveled to their areas on a regular basis to preach and to provide religious support to the settlers.
Circuit Riders
Ranchers supplied townspeople and farmers with food, hides, and other materials. A few ranchers, such as _____, drove their cattle to New Orleans to sell them in markets there.
Taylor White
These celebrations featured popular tunes of the day, including “Yankee Doodle.”
Songfests
Many Protestant ___—organized religious groups with similar beliefs—soon built churches in the Republic. The Methodist Church was the largest ___, followed by the Baptist Church.
Denominations
Churches also ran most of the Republic’s schools. ____ was founded by the Methodist Church in 1840.
Rutersville College
Some free African Americans, such as ____ of Montgomery County, also owned ranches.
Robert Thompson
___ were one of the most popular pastimes, whether small rural affairs or elaborate plantation balls.
Dances
The ____ was the largest denomination, followed by the Baptist Church. Rutersville College was founded by the ____ in 1840.
Methodist Church
______, the oldest college in Texas still in operation, was founded by Baptists in 1845.
Baylor University
These towns were founded by _____—people who bought large amounts of land in hopes of making profits.
Land Speculators
The most common publications in the Republic were _____.
Newspaper
_____ remained the dominant religion in Galveston, San Antonio, and Tejano communities along the Rio Grande.
Catholicism
Some Texans also wrote poetry, including President _____. Furthermore, although President ____ wanted Texas to establish a system of public education, funds were scarce.
Mirabeau B. Lamar
The first steamboat to enter a Texas river was ____.
The Ariel
____ came to Texas with Henri Castro. ____ is known for his scenes of Texas life.
Théodore Gentilz
Jewish immigrants established ____, or Jewish houses of worship, in Galveston, Houston, and San Antonio.
Synagogues
Several towns, however, did build private ____—schools that offered classes at the high school level.
Academies