Unit 6 People Review

An innkeeper in Austin, Texas, this Texan turned a 6lb cannon on the General Land Office in Austin when the Texas Rangers were attempting to remove the archives from Austin (the capital of Texas), in order to transport them to the city of Houston (which many thought was simply a ploy to re-establish the capital of Texas in Houston).

The only Tejano delegate to the Texas Convention of 1845, organized to determine the annexation of Texas. He also signed the Texas Declaration of Independence & served as a Texas commissioner on the ill-fated Santa Fe Expedition (for which he would serve over two years in a Mexican prison before escaping).

The only man to ever defeat Sam Houston in a political election, this one term governor of Texas ended up being extremely unpopular after he failed to create and maintain a lasting peace along the Texas frontier– he would lose his re-election bid in 1859… to none other than: Sam Houston.

An American general responsible for several victories during the first months of the Mexican-American War, including the Battle of Palo Alto, the Battle of Resaca de la Palma– he would be replaced as general by another, after President Polk decided he was incapable of leading a campaign of invasion into central Mexico.

A two-term governor of Texas, he was a champion public education and financial stability throughout both of his terms, though an organized public education system was still not realized (due to the reappropriation of education funds for other purposes). He would pay off the majority of the state’s debts before he left office in 1857.

Also known by the names Duwali and Diwal’li, he was the principal chief & leader of the council of the Cherokee people in Texas, he would negotiate peace with Sam Houston during the Texas Revolution– however, when that treaty was rejected by the Texas Senate, he may have briefly allied with agents soliciting allies for a Mexican re-invasion of Texas.

A U.S. Senator from the state of Kentucky, he would be known as the “Great Compromiser” after he created the Compromise of 1850, which re-drew the territorial boundaries of Texas, as well as creating the New Mexico and Utah territories.

A member of the Texas Rangers, he would lead the Rangers in campaigns against the Comanche and other Native American peoples, including commanding a group of Rangers at the Battle of Plum Creek.

A plantation owner, personal friend of Sam Houston, and single term governor of Texas. During his administration, the Mexican-American War ended, and Texas began negotiation of its northern and western boundaries & territories with the United States.

The 10th president of the United States, he would send representatives to Texas as early as 1843 to begin working on the question of annexation. He was the sitting U.S. President when the annexation of Texas occurred on December 29th, 1845.