1. Mexican American War

2. Mexico in 1821

3. Empresarios
Land Agents

4. Stephen F. Austin

5. “Texas’s Old Three Hundred”
Initial 297 land grants
Each family received:
177 inexpensive acres of farmland
15,000 acres for stock grazing
10 year exemption from paying taxes

6. The Rio Grande

7. “Gone to Texas”

8. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna

9. Texas Revolution

10. Lt. Colonel William Travis

11. The Alamo

12. Jim Bowie & Davy Crockett

13. The Alamo 12 day siege – February 23, 1836 – March 6, 1836
Santa Anna & army attack the rebels in the Alamo
All 187 defenders & hundreds of Mexicans died—as many as 1,500

14. Texans declared their independence from Mexico
March 2, 1836
Texans declared their independence from Mexico

15. Sam Houston

16. Remember the Alamo

17. Treaty of Velasco

18. Republic of Texas

19. Texas Becomes a State
December 29, 1845
28th state in the Union

20. Moving Towards War

21. John Brown

22. John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry—October 16, 1859

23. Harper’s Ferry

24. John Brown’s Execution

25. Election of 1860 – Abraham Lincoln’s Campaign Poster

26. Election of 1860 – Electoral Votes

27. Presidential Election Results
Popular Vote
Electoral Vote

28. South Carolina Secedes – December 20, 1860

29. Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy

30. Lincoln’s Oath of Office – March 4, 1861

31. Federal Property
Property belonging to the United States government: Post Offices, Armories, etc.

32. Fort Sumter, South Carolina—April 12, 1861

33. Major Robert Anderson, Ft. Sumter’s Commander

34. General P.G.T. Beauregard, Confederate Army

35. Captain Abner Doubleday