1. Vocabulary Builder 2
The Republic of Texas

2. redbacks

3. noun –pl paper money… issued (created) during the Lamar presidency… to resolve (remove) the Republic’s debt

4. frontier

5. noun land… that lies beyond the border… of settled territory… where few people live

6. expenditure

7. noun money spent

8. Federalism

9. noun a form of government… in which power is divided… between the federal (national) and state governments

10. Popular Sovereignty

11. noun rule by the people

12. squatter

13. noun a person who settles on…or uses land…that does not belong to them

14. annexation

15. noun the incorporation (addition)…of a country or territory…into another country or territory

16. cash crop

17. noun a field of produce grown for the purpose of being sold

18. Manifest Destiny

19. pr noun the belief that the United States must expand its boundaries to the Pacific Ocean

20. NOW ANOTHER WAY!

21. noun land… that lies beyond the border… of settled territory… where few people live
frontier

22. noun –pl paper money… issued (created) during the Lamar presidency… to resolve (remove) the Republic’s debt
redbacks

23. noun a person who settles on…or uses land…that does not belong to them
squatter

24. noun rule by the people
Popular
Sovereignty

25. noun the incorporation (addition)…of a country or territory…into another country or territory
annexation

26. pr noun the belief that the United States must expand its boundaries to the Pacific Ocean
Manifest
Destiny

27. noun a form of government… in which power is divided… between the federal (national) and state governments
Federalism

28. noun a field of produce grown for the purpose of being sold
cash crop

30. First and third President of the Republic who favored Native Americans
Sam Houston
First and third President of the Republic who favored Native Americans

31. Mirabeau Lamar
Second President of the Republic known as “the Father of Texas Education”

32. Leader of the Cherokee nation who refused to leave Texas.
Chief Bowles
Leader of the Cherokee nation who refused to leave Texas.

33. Mary Maverick
Kept a journal of life on the Texas frontier that became a primary source.

34. Jack Coffee Hayes
Hero of the Battle of Salado Creek in which the Texans defeated the Mexican army after they had taken San Antonio.