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1. Conducted the first cattle drive to New Orleans*
2. Galveston is named after him |
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1. most well-known Tejano Cavalryman
2. Creole: Spanish decent, born in new world
3. 1765-1833
4. 1807 secured a grant to bring settlers in around San Patricio
5. 1809 established first registered brand in the state of Texas
6. provided antecedent base for Texas rangers*
7. takes cattle to New Orleans to mark them; earliest to take cattle to commercial market to be sold* |
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1. general in command of the Texas army*
2. wants to go South to Matamoras to fight
3. promoted someone else to be his superior: Albert Sydney Johnston
4. Dec. 1836*
5. Dueled with Johnston and took his spot
6. Furloughed Army May 1837
i. free transportation to New Orleans or
ii. 1280 acres |
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1. Texas's first president
2. 1836
3. attended the Convention of 1833 as representative for Nacogdoches, and emerged as a supporter of William Harris Wharton
4. At the Battle of San Jacinto on April 21, 1836, surprised Santa Anna during their afternoon siesta
5. twice elected president of the Republic of Texas |
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1. Interim President*
2. concerned about military takeover
3. interested in getting foreign policy for trading purposes
4. Santa Anna wanted all people living in Texas gone
5. financial problems-couldnt raise any money; no taxes, no govt; no infrastructure
6. devastation everywhere |
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1. end to hostilities
2. Mexican army to withdraw below the Rio Grande
3. Texans prisoners to be released; Mexican prisoners to be released
4. Secret Provisions – Texas Independence |
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1. April 21, 1836*
2. Santa Anna boxed in on 3 sides
3. Houston maintains close track of Santa Anna’s troop movements
4. 18 minutes of fighting, 3 ½ hours of stab, gouge, surrendering
5. Sam Houston shot in the ankle |
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*NOV 3-14, 1835
1. independence
2. statehood*
3. seek aid
4. army/Houston as commander
5. provisional state government |
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1. Oct. 2, 1835*
2. retrieved a cannon that had been used years before as a defense against Native Americans
3. first shot of the revolution
4. three of the survivors from the Alamo were sent to spread word of the Texian defeat |
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1. April 1834*
2. repudiates liberal government
3. Constitution of 1824 replaced
4. elimination of state heads
5. reduction of state militias; instead -> national army
6. April 1835, Santa Anna appointed himself field commander
7. General Martin Perfecto de Cos
-set north across the Rio Grande |
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1. February 23 – March 6, 1836*
2. most famous battle of Texas Revolution
3. after driven out of the state, Santa Anna led an invasion to regain control of the area
4.outnumbered Texians repulsed two attacks, but were unable to fend off a third |
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1. stopped all uncompleted empresario contracts
2. forts at key points to stop immigration
3. suspended settlement of immigrants in territory adjacent to native country
4. colonize Europeans in Texas
5. coastal trade encouraged
6. no American could enter without a passport |
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1. felt that Spanish didn’t need to remain in East, TX (Nacogdoches)
2. didn’t want to be moved to San Antonio (Comaches were becoming a problem in South Texas
3. made a deal with Spanish govt. – got to go all the way back eventually |
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1. people in Nacogdoches then making trading connections with Spanish Louisiana
2. Spanish Louisiana turns into French Louisiana |
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1. helped “filibusters” get started
2. Phillip Noland
-left his bookkeeping-round up horses
-made maps
-made maps and rounded up hourses
-Spanish didn’t like people coming in
-threatened to put him in jail
-killed Phillip Nolan- no American was allowed to be in TX |
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*MANIFEST DESTINY
1. he was an expansionist (Fillibuster)
2. claimed South boundary of Louisiana purchase was rio grande river
3. if your gonna take it, take it all
4. Jefferson had a lot of interest in this area (TX)
5. earliest parts of Manifest Destiny was this time and this area (TX)
6. up until 1819-TX in bulls eye in what America wanted to do*
7. leaves office in 1800
8. Americans political climate-will set agenda against expansion
9. U.S.--> don’t think should expand because it would take too much effort to manage more land |
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1. Haden and Ben Edwards, 1825
2. Government expelled Edwards 1826
3. Austin helped the Mexican government
4. isolated event
5. government became concerned and revokes Edwards contract
6. raises level of caution for people living in Austin’s area |
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1. Reported – Americans flooding across border
2. Reported – Nacogdoches an American Town
3. Reported – no chance for assimilation
4. Law of April 6,1830 |
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1. "Father of Texas"
2. led the second and ultimately successful colonization of the region by settlers from the United States
3. traveled to Mexico City, July 1833; advised creating Texas government; arrested |
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