Texas History Flashcard

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How did Congress and Sam Houston try to reduce the republic’s debt? Options: by pursuing annexation by the United States, by planning to cross the Rio Grande and invade Mexico, by eliminating government jobs and suspending payments on the debt, by agreeing to move the capital out of Austin

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by eliminating government jobs and suspending payments on the debt

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How did the policies of Sam Houston differ from those of Mirabeau Lamar?

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Houston sought peaceful relations with both Native Americans and Mexico.

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What was the result of the Archive War?

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The government’s archives and the capital remained in Austin.

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What event successfully ended the Mexican invasion of San Antonio?

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the Battle of Salado Creek

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What were the results of the Mier Expedition?

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Mexican troops defeated the Texans, and 17 Texans were executed.

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led an expedition against Mexican forces north of the Rio Grande

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Alexander Somervell

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Who ordered the death of prisoners who had escaped from the Mexican army?

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Antonio López de Santa Anna

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Who led the Texas Rangers at the Battle of Salado Creek?

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Jack Coffee Hays

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led the Mier Expedition against Mexico

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William S. Fisher

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lost the 1841 election for president of the republic

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David Burnet