The Road to Statehood
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| 1. Pay back debt 2. Give Indians land 3. Wanted Texas to join USA 4. 1st and 3rd President of Texas | Sam Houston
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| 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
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| were farmers, ranchers, and townspeole who volunteered to defend the Republic of Texas | Texas Rangers
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| branch of government that makes laws | Congress
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| Locaitons of the capital of Texas | 1. Columbia 2. Houston 3. Austin
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| when you owe someone money | debt
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| a limited amount of time | term
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| a general, twice president, a senator, liked Indians, and wanted to pay back debt and for Texas to join the USA | Sam Houston
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| a Cherokee Chief killed by the Texas' army in the Battle of Neches | Philip Bowels
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| 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
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| means adding a territory or area to a country | annexation
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| an agreement; decision | resolution
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| elected to represent a group of people and goes to Washington, DC and votes laws | senator
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| the last president of Texas and was president of Texas when Texas joined the US. | Anson Jones
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| US president when Texas was annexed by US and a friend of Sam Houston | James K. Polk
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| first governor of Texas | James Pinckney Henderson
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| 1. Spain 2. French 3. Mexico 4. Lone Star 5. Confederate 6. USA | Six Flags of Texas
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| between USA and Mexico about where the boarder of Texas is. | Mexican War
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| 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
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| solving a diagreement by both sides agreeing to give something up | compromise
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| 1. US paid $10 Million for New Mexico territory 2. now Texas has money to start schools | Compromise of 1850
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| having to do with goverment | political
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| Three good reasons for Texas to join USA | 1. Strong money system 2. Stong army 3. Family members living in the USA
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| Two bad reasons for Texas to join USA | 1. give up independence 2. give up forts and military supplies
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| Two good reasons for US to annex Texas | 1. Texas had fertile land 2. Access to the sea (Gulf of Mexico)
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| Two bad reasons for US to annex Texas | 1. Texas was in debt 2. Mexico might fight to get Texas
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