TX TOPIC 06 Review

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fate of Fisher's force

captured at Mier by MX General Pedro de Ampudia, 176 imprisoned for life by Santa Anna in MX City, 17 executed based on black / white beans; survivors related in 1844

comparing Houston and Lamar

clothes, government spending, relations with MX, relations with Native Americans, expanding TX, annexation

issue that caused a delay in the annexation of the ROT

slavery

the ROT population by 1845

100,000 (grew from 34,500 in 1836)

result of this expedition

270 men traveled 1,300 miles before capture and imprisonment at Perote by MX authorities

US congress approved the joint resolution to accept TX as the ___ (number) state on February 25, 1845

28th (Tyler was still President until March 4, 1845)

death toll from the Council House Fight

7 Texans and many Comanche leaders killed

won the 1841 election for ROT President

Sam Houston with Edward Burleson as VP

the first Sec. of State

Stephen F. Austin

nickname Lamar earned for supporting education in TX

"Father of Education in Texas"

nickname for Lamar's new ROT currency

"redbacks"

nickname for ROT money

"star money"

Houston tried to replaced Huston with

Albert Sidney Johnston

the woman who warned the archives were being stolen (Archives War)

Angelina Eberly

where ad interim President David Burnet chose as the first capital city

Columbia

a second Indian tribe targeted by President Lamar

Comanches

Cherokee Chief targeted by President Lamar

Chief Bowles

when did the U.S. Congress approve the treaty

December 29, 1845

won the 1844 election for ROT President

Dr. Anson Jones defeated Houston's VP Edward Burleson

Commander of the ROT Navy

Edwin Moore

ROT navy commander ordered to returned from helping rebels fight MX in the Yucatan

Edwin Moore

when did ROT President Anson announce the annexation of TX

Feb. 19, 1846—ROT is no more...

commander of the TX Army

Felix Huston

who President Houston sent to pursue General Woll

General Alexander Somervell

sent by President Lamar (without the ROT's Congress approval) on an expedition to claim Santa Fe and Pueblo in New Mexico for the ROT

General Hugh McLeod

two MX generals who temporarily took over San Antonio in March and September 1842

General Rafael Vasquez and General Adrian Woll

the two East Texas counties involved in the Regulator-Moderator War

Harrison and Shelby

the first Sec. of Treasury

Henry Smith

two diplomats President Houston sent to Washington D.C. to request annexation

Isaac Van Zandt and J. Pinckney

won the 1844 election for US President

James K. Polk

the U.S. Sec. of State who worked for TX annexation

John C. Calhoun—accepted an annexation treaty with the ROT in April 1844, but U.S. Senate rejected it by 1 vote

Congressman who blocked the bill to annex TX

John Q. Adams

the new U.S. President after the death of Whig President William Henry Harrison

John Tyler

the founders of Houston, TX

John and Augustus Allen

two towns raided by the Comanche in retaliation

Linnville and Victoria

tortured child involved in the Council House Fight

Matilda Lockhart

won the 1838 election for ROT President

Mirabeau Lamar

battle between General Kelsey Douglass and Chief Bowles

Neches River, July 16, 1839

the first ROT President

Sam Houston

when did TX voters accept / ratify this document

October 1845

the two Houston supported candidates that died before the election

Peter Grayson and James Coillingsworth

battle fought in August 1840 between Texans Felix Huston, Edward Burleson, and Ben McCullough against the Comanches

Plum Creek

the first Sec. of War

Thomas R. Rusk

President Houston's temporary capital

Washington-on-the-Brazos

President Lamar's new choice for ROT capital city

Waterloo / Austin

Texan who illegally led ROT forces into MX

William S. Fisher—called the Mier Expedition

the 3 Texan working in Washington D.C. for Congress to annex the ROT

William Wharton, Memucan Hunt, and Anson Jones

the famous ranch that the IL contractor received for building the pink marble capitol

XIT

fate of Commander Moore when he refused to obey President Houston's orders

declared a pirate to allow other countries to sink his ships (this caused Moore to return home and request a court-martial from Houston instead

President Lamar's land policy for every TX family and for every newcomer family to the ROT

every Anglo ROT family got a league and labor of land; every newcomer Anglo family got 640 acres plus 320 acres more for 3 months of ROT military service

the key problem facing Cherokee near Nacogdoches

land titles

President Houston's 3 goals

prevent war with MX, spend less money, and US annexation

the 5 problems the ROT initially faced

recognition by MX, finances, American immigrants, capital, annexation

how Austin's new capitol building (not built until 1880s) was funded

selling 3 million acres in the Pan Handle to fund it

where President Sam Houston moved the capital city

to Houston


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