Row 1
Which legislation permitted all free African Americans who lived in Texas at the time of the Texas Declaration of Independence to remain?
Ashworth Act
What was the designation given to people who exercised broad control over slaves' lives?
Slaveholders
What was the name of the Free African American and Texas Revolution veteran who was compelled to depart owing to the 1826 Constitution after fighting in the battles of Concepción and San Antonio?
Greenbury Logan
What was the German Emigration Company referred to as?
Adelsverein
Free African Americans who remained in the Republic had to face racism from their neighbors. What is the name of a wealthy business owner who had to cope with numerous attempts by other residents to seize his property? Other free African Americans lacked the resources to oppose their persecutors in court.
William Goyens
Most Texans, whether long-time residents or new immigrants, were...
Farmers and Ranchers
This guy, and Stephen F. Austin's cousin, began operated a steamboat named The Ariel. Who was that guy?
Henry Austin
Texans established many churches. After Texas independence, what 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
To attract immigration, the Republic of Texas implemented a land grant policy inspired after what?
Empresario System
Where did the majority of new immigrants to the Republic come from in quest of land and economic opportunity?
United States
What did Baron Otfried Hans Freiherr von Meusebach alter his name to?
John O. Meusebach
Between 1836 and 1847, the population of Texas expanded by almost what number?
100,000
Prince Carl established a port for incoming settlers. What's the name of the port?
Karlshafen
This man was one of the few ranchers. He drove their cattle to New Orleans to sell them in markets there. Who was this person?
Taylor White
Texans enjoyed a number of leisure activities. Some activities combined fun with work, such as building houses for newcomers, participating in log-splitting contests, hunting, and fishing. Other activities were all fun, such as _____.
Songfests
Many Protestant ___________—organized religious groups with similar beliefs—soon built churches in the Republic.
Denominations
Churches also ran most of the Republic’s schools, like ___________, which was found by the Methodist Church in 1840.
Rutersville College
In 1838, a group of Tejanos in Nacogdoches reacted to the poor treatment. A small number of Tejano and Indian allies fought in what conflict?
Córdova Rebellion
In March 1845, the prince and a group of settlers founded which town on the Guadalupe and Comal rivers?
New Braunfels
Who replaced Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels when he went back to Europe two months later?
Baron Otfried Hans Freiherr von Meusebach
What was the name of the empresario that joined Stephen F. Austin on his first voyage to Texas in 1821?
James Hewetson
What was the Karlshafen's later name?
Indianola
A free African American, named ______, of Montgomery County, owned ranches. Who was this African American?
Robert Thompson
What was one of the most popular pastimes in Texas?
Dances
What was one of the largest denomination in the Repubic? Followed by the Baptist Church. Presbyterians and Episcopalians.
Methodist Church
This college was one of the oldest colleges in Texas and still in operation. It was founded by Baptists in 1845.
Baylor University
After acquiring land in the Hill Country, who did the German Emigration Company send in 1844, followed by a group of peasants and artisans?
Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels
Who led one of the earliest parties of French settlers to Texas? Many of them came from Alsace, an eastern French province with a predominantly German-speaking population.
Henri Castro
With the surge in US immigration, the number of slaves in Texas increased from around 5,000 in 1836 to how many by 1845?
30,000
In 1842, a group of European businessmen formed what organization in the hopes of profiting by encouraging Germans to settle in Texas?
German Emigration Company
Who was the largest group of European immigrants to arrive in Texas in the early 1830s?
Germans
Other new towns, though, such as Carolina, Geneva, Pompei, and Rome, were less fortunate. These towns were founded by ______. people who bought large amounts of land in hopes of making profits. Speculators would sell small lots of the land at higher prices to new settlers at higher prices than they had paid themselves.
Land Speculators
What was most common publications in the Republic of Texas?
Newspaper
_________ was remained the dominant religion in Galveston, San Antonio, and Tejano communities along the Rio Grande.
Catholicism
This President wanted Texas to establish a system of public education, funds were scarce. Houston was the only town in the Republic to establish a public school, which operated off and on throughout the 1840s. What was the name of this president?
Mirabeau B. Lamar
In 1838, who led a group of Tejanos in Nacogdoches in response to the bad treatment? He was a former alcalde who had contacted Mexican officials seeking to push all Anglos out of Texas.
Vicente Córdova
What was the name of the revolutionary hero who served as mayor of San Antonio from 1840 to 1842?
Juan Seguín
During the Runaway Scrape, entire towns such as Harrisburg, Refugio, and San Felipe were burned down. Which document provided land to many of the individuals who resided in Texas before to the Revolution to aid in their reconstruction?
Constitution of 1836
Following the Revolution, Irish settlers continued to migrate to Texas in search of economic opportunities. What is the name of the Irish-born Texan who advocated for immigration in his 1841 book, Texas: The Rise, Progress, and Prospects of the Republic of Texas?
William Kennedy
Several Tejanos occupied positions of influence in the San Antonio area. What is the name of the person who served in the Republic's Congress and worked to defend Tejano rights? He was also a signatory to the Texas Declaration of Independence.
José Antonio Navarro
When the roads were so bad, they have to use a steamboat to transport goods and people, the first steamboat was operated by Stephen F. Austin's cousin and Henry Austin. What was the name of the first steamboat that was introduced in Texas?
The Ariel
A lot of the Republic’s artists were new immigrants. Like _______. A French painter and surveyor, came to Texas with Henri Castro. He is known for his scenes of Texas life. Some sculptors also worked in the Republic.
Théodore Gentilz
Jewish immigrants established a church, which is called ________, or Jewish houses of worship and was built in Galveston, Houston, and San Antonio.
Synagogues
Several towns, however, build private ________—schools that offered classes at the high school level.
Academies