Republic of Texas Review

Mirabeau Lamar

• Father of Texas Education

• Mr. Education

• the Great Teacher

• someone who made taxes increase

Moving the capital to Austin

• opposed by Presidents Mirabeau Lamar and Anson Jones

• to prevent Indian attacks

• supported by Lamar

• made most Texans happy

Lamar remembered for

• more peaceful times on the frontiere

• a lot of debt

• good times for the economy

• improvement in relationship of US and Mexico

WHY could Sam Houston not run for President at the end of his 1st term?

• he was sick

• he had promised not to run for a second term

• his party would not support him

• the Constitution said NO CONSECUTIVE TERMS

Texas Republic had no cash, but it had lots of this

• LAND

• BRISKET

• FARMS

• WINDMILLS

What happened to the men caught in the Mier Expedition?

• let go and escaped to San Antonio

• defeated in battle and executed

• 10% of them were executed after drawing a black bean (every 11th man)

• won a great victory over Santa Anna

Santa Fe Expedition:

• failure and led to MORE tension with Mexico

• won the state of Louisiana

• gained Texas a lot of territory to annex

• solved by a peace treaty with Mexico

Texas became a state in the US

• 1821

• 1836

• 1845

• 1861

Why did Lamar send the Santa Fe Expedition?

• stop Sam Houston from expanding Texas westward

• prove to Mexico that he would follow a treaty

• saw New Mexico as the start of Texas westward expansion

• saw New Mexico as the start of USA westward expansion

The Era of the Texas Revolution and the Republic of Texas?

• exploration of Texas by Europeans, Spanish confict with Native Americans

• Development of Texas as a Spanish colony, and then for independent Mexico

• Texas annexed by the US, and became a state

• Texas won independence from Mexico, and Presidents Houston and Lamar of Texas