Question | Answer |
1. Pay back debt 2. Give Indians land 3. Wanted Texas to join USA 4. 1st and 3rd President of Texas | Sam Houston |
1.Printed and spent more money 2.Did not want to give indians Texas' land. 3. Did not want Texas to join USA. 4. 2nd President of Texas | Mirabeau B. Lamar |
were farmers, ranchers, and townspeole who volunteered to defend the Republic of Texas | Texas Rangers |
branch of government that makes laws | Congress |
Locaitons of the capital of Texas | 1. Columbia 2. Houston 3. Austin |
when you owe someone money | debt |
a limited amount of time | term |
a general, twice president, a senator, liked Indians, and wanted to pay back debt and for Texas to join the USA | Sam Houston |
a Cherokee Chief killed by the Texas' army in the Battle of Neches | Philip Bowels |
a popular idea in the US in the 1840's that the United States should expand ites boarders west to the Pacific Ocean and South to the Rio Grande. | Manifest Destiny |
means adding a territory or area to a country | annexation |
an agreement; decision | resolution |
elected to represent a group of people and goes to Washington, DC and votes laws | senator |
the last president of Texas and was president of Texas when Texas joined the US. | Anson Jones |
US president when Texas was annexed by US and a friend of Sam Houston | James K. Polk |
first governor of Texas | James Pinckney Henderson |
1. Spain 2. French 3. Mexico 4. Lone Star 5. Confederate 6. USA | Six Flags of Texas |
between USA and Mexico about where the boarder of Texas is. | Mexican War |
1. Rio Grande will be the boarder 2. US will pay $15 million to Mexico for California, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Colorado 3. Gave Mexican in these territories citizenship | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
solving a diagreement by both sides agreeing to give something up | compromise |
1. US paid $10 Million for New Mexico territory 2. now Texas has money to start schools | Compromise of 1850 |
having to do with goverment | political |
Three good reasons for Texas to join USA | 1. Strong money system 2. Stong army 3. Family members living in the USA |
Two bad reasons for Texas to join USA | 1. give up independence 2. give up forts and military supplies |
Two good reasons for US to annex Texas | 1. Texas had fertile land 2. Access to the sea (Gulf of Mexico) |
Two bad reasons for US to annex Texas | 1. Texas was in debt 2. Mexico might fight to get Texas |