Republic Vocabulary

CIVIL FREEDOMS The rights to be free to speak, think, assemble, worship or petition without government interference or restraints

The document that establishes the way we govern and rule our country CONSTITUTION The document that establishes the way we govern and rule our country

The amount of money a national government owes. PUBLIC (NATONAL) DEBT The amount of money a national government owes.

The act of adding or joining a territory to an existing one. ANNEXATION The act of adding or joining a territory to an existing one.

1ST & 3RD President of the Republic of Texas SAM HOUSTON 1ST & 3RD President of the Republic of Texas

2ND President of the Republic of Texas MIRABEAU B. LAMAR 2ND President of the Republic of Texas

ANSON JONES 4th President of the Republic of Texas & President during Texas’s annexation into the U.S.

JACK COFFEE HAYES Famous Texas Ranger protected Texas’s frontier & served in the Mexican American war

Wrote a famous eye-witness account to the Council House Fight MARY MAVERICK Wrote a famous eye-witness account to the Council House Fight was an early Texas pioneer and author of journals which form an important source of information on daily life in and around San Antonio during the Republic of Texas

EDMIN W. MOORE was the commodore (1839–1843) of the Second Navy for the Republic of Texas.

JOSE ANTONIO NAVARRO was a Texas statesman, Revolutionary, politician, and merchant Leader on the Santa Fe Expedition