Week 13
This famous Texas hero was a commander of the volunteers at the Alamo, and died during the Battle of the Alamo, but was NOT born in Texas.
Who is James Bowie?
This man was the First President of the Republic of Texas.
Who is Sam Houston?
This river serves as a good geographic boundary between Texas and Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande River?
What is Indigo?
This person survived the Battle of the Alamo.
Who is Enique Esparza?
The purpose of Santa Anna's message that Susanna Dickinson delivered, otherwise known as the Runaway Scrape.
What is to spread dismay across Texas?
This President of the Republic of Texas is famously credited with creating the Texas School System.
Who is Mirabeau Lamar?
Santa Anna violated a specific treaty when he invaded Texas in 1842.
What is the Treaty(ies) of Velasquez?
Producing cotton on large plantations required this.
This former President of the Republic of Texas had his entire term dominated by the question of Annexation into the U.S.
Who is Anson Jones?
This man, also a Commander at the Alamo, died during the Battle and wrote the famous "Victory or Death" Letter.
Who is William B. Travis?
This was one of the few accomplishments of the Republic of Texas.
What is setting aside land to create public schools?
This reason was why the United States did not want to annex Texas.
What is, they did not want a war with Mexico?
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Spain and Germany
This is the most important thing when choosing a capital city location.
What are natural resources?
This Texas Hero could not fight during the Texas Revolution due to illness, so he helped write both the Texas Declaration of Independence and the Texas Constitution.
This famous document is the most likely model for the Texas Declaration of Rights.
What is the U.S. Bill of Rights?
This cause, led to a bounty dispute with the U.S. and Mexico.
What is Texas being annexed to the United States?
This 1850s Law was put in place in an attempt to keep the United States intact.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
This cause, was a driving force in Texas being annexed into the United States.
What is Mexico and the American Indians threatening the Republic of Texas?
This man, a born Mexican, aided the Texas side of the Revolution due to disagreements with then Dictator General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna.
Who is Plácido Benevides?
"Goods being more expensive" is a good definition for this term.
What is Inflation?
What is taxes did not cover expenses?
This Treaty was special in many ways, the most important is that it did not have any Government Input.
What is the Meusebach-Comanche Treaty?
This person is the ONLY person to serve as President of the Republic of Texas twice.
Who is Sam Houston?