Question | Answer |
Comanche captive whose appearance helped start the Council House Fight | Matilda Lockhart |
the Father of Texas | Stephen F. Austin |
the first president of Texas | Sam Houston |
the Father of Education in Texas | Mirabeau Lamar |
Austin resident who started the Archives War | Angelina Eberly |
President Jackson granted official recognition of Texas | March 3, 1837 |
President Lamar reversed President Houston's policies towards | Native Americans |
European countries wanted to limit the _________ expansion | United States' |
Refused to accept the treaty negotiated by their representatives and denied Cherokees title to their land | The Senate of the Republic of Texas |
trading center of the Upper Rio Grande that Texas wished to control | Santa Fe |
capital of Texas under Lamar | Austin |
small village later renamed Austin | Waterloo |
site designated as the capital of Texas for three years by the Congress of 1836 | Houston |
town attacked by Comanches to avenge the deaths at the Council House Fight | Linnville |
The end of the Regulator-Moderator War came when | Houston urged a truce |
The last president of Texas was | Anson Jones |
Henry M Morfit's report to President Jackson recommended | delaying recognition of Texas |
The Santa Fe expedition endured all of these hardships | heat, lack of food and water, attacks by Native Americans |
To stop raids by Native Americans, President Houston enlisted the help of the | Texas Rangers |
The 1845 joint resolution pleased most Texans because it | made Texas a U.S. state |
Provisions of the 1844 treaty | Texas would give its public lands to the U.S., Texas would become a U.S. territory, the U.S. would pay all debts of the Republic of Texas |
Expenditures | money paid out |
The victory of James Polk as president in 1844 may have indicated that | most Americans favored the annexation of Texas |
As a result of the Archives War | the capital remained in Austin |
President Houston did not run for a second consecutive term because | the constitution forbade it |
The Texas navy aided rebels in Yucatan who were | fighting for independence from Mexico |
the belief that the U.S. would expand from coast to coast | Manifest Destiny |
improving education was an important goal for Texas president | Mirabeau Lamar |
The congress took these steps to provide revenue for the rebublic | impose land title fees, impose property and business taxes, place a tariff on various goods imported into Texas |
Lamar believed that the Cherokees who settled in northeast Texas should be | taxed on their property |
person who traveled to Great Britain and France to negotiate treaties | J. Pinckney Henderson |
a major reason for delaying Texas annexation | Mexico refused to recognize Texas independence |
Comanches, led by Buffalo Hump, attacked Anglo settlers to | avenge the deaths during the Council House Fight |
At the end of Lamar's term, the public debt was | $7 million |