The Republic of Texas and Statehood

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The Republic of Texas and Statehood
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Copy on the first page in the 3rd section of the
notebook

• Conceptual Question
• How can conflict create change?
• Debatable Question
• Is growth and change through expansion positive
  or negative?

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Copy the Vocabulary in the designated section in
your notebook

• Republic government in which the power rests in
  its citizens who vote for representatives
• Annexation something being added or attached to
  something, like territory

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Review

• Texans win the Battle of San Jacinto and the
  Revolution on April 21, 1836
• Santa Anna signs the Treaty of Velasco on May 14,
  1836
• Texas becomes its own country
• The Republic of Texas!

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From this
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To this
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To this
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1st President

• Sam Houston is elected in a landslide
• 1st term 1836 - 1838
• Makes Houston the first capital
• Elected again as the third president (1841-1844)

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2nd President

• Mirabeau Lamar is elected because Houston cannot
  serve back to back terms
• Served 1838 - 1841
• Moves capital to Austin

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3rd President (4th term)

• Anson Jones
• Presided over Annexation

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The Republic of Texas 1836-1845

• Problems
• Unrest in the army
• Debt (No money)
• Native American raids
• Border Debates
• Troubles with Mexico
• Education
• Getting independence recognized from other
  countries
• What conclusion can you draw from this list of
  problems?

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Their Policies

• Houston

• Lamar

• Pro-Annexation
• Compromise with Natives
• Little Military
• Try to borrow Money
• Capital in Houston
• Future Governor

• Remain a Country
• Remove the Natives
• Increase Military
• Increase paper currency
• Capital in Austin
• Father of Education

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Protection

• Texans faced conflicts with Natives in the West
  and Mexicans along the border
• Stephen Austin created the Texas Rangers, but
  they grew during the Republic
• Jack Coffee Hays the most famous Ranger
• Lamar believed the Texans
• needed a Navy, their commander
• was Edwin Moore.

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Statehood 1845-present

• Texas is annexed (added) to the U.S. in 1845 as
  the 28th state
• Texas becomes the only state in the union to have
  once been a country