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Chapter 4Launching a Nation, 1836-1848

• The History of Texas
• Harlan Davidson, Inc.

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Learning Outcomes (4)

• understand the political social process of
  creating a nation
• think about the Social, Economic, Diplomatic
  challenges facing Texas
• be able to chronicle events leading to the
  Mexican War
• anticipate the implications of the Treaty of
  Guadalupe Hidalgo

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Chapter 4Launching a Nation, 1836-1848

• The New Nation
• Challenges
• Finances
• Indians
• Infrasturcture
• Governing the Republic

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Politics in Republican Texas

• Republicanism
• The politics of caution
• Diplomatic recognition
• Fiscal issues
• The politics of action
• Mirabeau B. Lamar
• The Santa Fe Expedition
• Education
• Retrenchment

Mirabeau B. LamarTexas State Library Archives
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The People of Texas

• Demographic growth
• The rise of towns
• Established communities new towns
• Immigration
• Commerce
• Farms, plantations, ranches

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Social Economic Challenges

• A diverse people
• Texians
• Indians
• Tejanos
• Economic life
• Education
• Transportation

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Diplomatic Challenges

• Recognition in Europe
• France, 1839
• Great Britain, 1840
• Friction with Mexico
• Imperial dreams
• The Mier Expedition
• Annexation

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War with Mexico

• Overtures
• General Zachery Taylor on the Rio Grande
• Envoy John Slidell
• Interpreting the war
• Mexican belligerency, irrationality
  Anglo-phobia
• Manipulations by President Polk
• U.S. expansionism
• Revisionism
• Mexico national preservation
• Polk provoked war

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War with Mexico

• The U.S. war plan
• Invade New Mexico California
• Invade Northern Mexico
• Invade Central Mexico
• Texans the war
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
• A hostile legacy?

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End of the Lone Star Republic

• Changes between 1836-1848
• Anglo Americans
• Tejanos
• Regionalism
• The Repubican Legacy
• Texas the United States

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Key Words Terms (4)

• David G. Burnet
• Republicanism
• Thomas J. Rusk
• William H. Wharton
• Sam Houston
• Mirabeau B. Lamar
• Santa Fe expedition
• Homestead Act of 1839
• Henri Castro
• Prince Carl von Solms-Braunfels
• Augustus C. John K. Allen
• Constitution of 1836
• Texian
• Regulators

• Moderators
• Cherokees in Texas
• Duwali
• Council House Fight
• John Coffee Jack Hays
• Count Alphonse de Saligny
• Mier Expedition
• annexation
• Mexican War
• John Slidell
• General Zachary Taylor
• William A. Big Foot Wallace
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
• Anson Jones