Sam Houston 1st Presidency
The capital of the Republic of Texas during Houston’s first presidency was this city.
What is Houston?
Lamar’s greatest “success” during his presidency was in this area.
What is education?
A 1840 clash in San Antonio where Comanche chiefs came to talk peace but fighting broke out is called this.
What is the Council House Fight?
Growing only enough food for your family, not to sell, is called this type of farming.
What is subsistence farming?
The U.S. president who strongly favored annexing Texas was this man.
Who is James K. Polk?
Houston’s biggest financial problem after the revolution was this.
What is a huge public debt ($1.25 Million)
In 1839, Lamar moved the capital from Houston to this new frontier town.
What is Austin?
In the Mier Expedition, captured Texans drew beans. What happened to the men who drew black beans?
What is 10% of them were executed by Mexico?
Looking at a map of Texas in 1840, were enslaved people spread evenly across Texas or concentrated in certain areas?
What is concentrated mostly in East Texas / along the Gulf Coast?
Polk liked annexation of Texas partly because he believed in this idea that the U.S. should spread across the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Name one challenge the Republic faced during Houston’s first presidency.
What is relations with Native people / relations with Mexico / Texas debt.
Lamar opposed Sam Houston’s major policy of doing this with Native Americans.
What is making peace / signing peace treaties?
Name the event: Texans invaded Mexico, were captured at the town of Mier, and had to draw beans from a pot to see who lived.
What is the Mier Expedition?
What did the Homestead Act of 1839 protect Texans’ land from?
What is from being taken by creditors to pay off debt?
Texas was annexed into the United States in 1845 by this method.
What is a joint resolution of Congress?
Did Sam Houston generally prefer peace or war with Mexico and Native tribes?
What is peace?
What was the purpose of the Santa Fe Expedition?
What is to increase trade and Texas control over Santa Fe / New Mexico?
How did Sam Houston try to solve the Texas debt problem in his presidencies? Give one method.
What is limit government spending / cut the army / try to get U.S. annexation / avoid expensive wars?
To encourage immigrants (especially from the U.S. and Europe) to settle in Texas, the government gave them these.
What are land grants?
One special term of Texas’s annexation: Texas would enter the U.S. as a what right away instead of first being a territory?
What is a state?
Give one reason why some Americans did not want Texas to be annexed to the U.S.
What is fear of spreading slavery/fear of war with Mexico
Overall, were Lamar’s policies more peaceful or aggressive, and did they tend to increase or decrease Texas’s debt?
What is aggressive, and they increased the debt.
During the Texas Revolution, why did the Texas Rangers destroy crops and property as they retreated?
What is to slow down or prevent Santa Anna’s army from using those supplies?
Slavery in Texas was tied most closely to which type of farming: subsistence or cash crop? Explain quickly.
What is cash crop farming, because plantations used enslaved labor to grow cotton and other crops for profit.
According to the joint resolution, into how many additional states could Texas be divided in the future?
What is 4 additional states (5 total including Texas)?