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Republic/Statehood
Social Studies Eric
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Jose Antonio Navarro | led the Santa Fe expedition to New Mexico. |
| Sam Houston | First and third president of the Republic of Texas. Governer and legislator (senator) for 2 states |
| Mirabeau B.Lamar | known as father of Texas Education because he set land aside for public schools. |
| Anson Jones | In charge of the handing over of Texas to the United States. |
| Economic struggles | Mirabeau Lamar doubled the debt because he authorized the aquisition of the Texas navy and the cost of fighting the American Indian tribes and Mexico |
| Mirabeau Lamar | wanted to remove Indian tribes from Texas. He forced the Cherokees to Oklahoma and was in a constant war with the Comanche until after the Civil War |
| Council House Fight | Comanche bands killed settlers and captured children, Com agreed to peace talks, but settlers thought captives would be returned. Fights broke out and settlers and Indians were killed when |
| Texas Rangers | were reinstated by Houston after he dismissed the army. Tx Rangers were only used when needed. They mainly fought against the Indians and during the Mexican War |
| Annexation of Texas to US | Concern about adding another slave state to US, became state on Dec 29,1845, caused the Mex War because Tx and US said the boundary of Tx was the Rio Grande and Mexico said the Neuces River, Treaty of Guad Hildago ended war and Rio Grande was border |
| Towns settled prior to 1845 | were settled by immigrants from US and Mexico along waterways and in colonies established by empresarios (San Antonio, San Felipe, Nacogdoches) |
| Towns settled 1845-1865 | were already established and continued to grow due to the agricultural industry. Galveston, Houston, Brownsville, were port cities |
| Texas State Constitution | established form of government and laws for the state of Texas, patterned after the US document |
| 3 branches of government | executive, legislative, judicial |
| Executive | executes laws, led by governor |
| Legislative | makes (legislates) laws, led by House of Representatives and Senate |
| Judicial | interprets laws, led by Supreme Court |
| Lorenzo de Zavala | helped write Texas Declaration of Independence, elected Vice President of the new republic |
| Gail Borden | He devised a process for condensing milk through a vacuum process. This long lasting condensed milk was a success and the beginning of canned and processed foods. |
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