2. Standard 8.59

3. Sam Houston
Friend of Andrew Jackson

4. Sam Houston -Represented Tennessee in House (1823-1827)
-Governor of Tennessee ( )

5. Sam Houston -William Stanbury (OH) talks badly about Houston
-Houston finds him and beats him with a hickory cane on the street (PA Ave)
Stanbury shoots Houston---it misfires

6. Sam Houston -Houston found not guilty in criminal court
-Francis Scott Key is his lawyer
-Houston found not guilty in criminal court
-found guilty in civil court and forced to pay $5000
-Instead he heads to Texas

7. I’m Sam Houston, head of the Texas Army
I’m Sam Houston, head of the Texas Army. We neither trust nor like Santa Anna. We want independence from Mexico!!!!

8. Time Out

9. Texas vs. Mexico Texas wins!!!!!! 1st battle: Gonzalez
-Mexico tries to take cannon
-Texans stand next to it with a flag-”Come and Take it”
Texas wins!!!!!!

10. Texas vs. Mexico: The Alamo
You will complete a station rotation about this tomorrow

11. Texas vs. Mexico: San Jacinto
Houston (Texas) vs. Santa Anna (Mexico)

12. Texas vs. Mexico: San Jacinto
Texans surprise attack on the Mexican camp.

13. Texas vs. Mexico: San Jacinto
Houston’s men kill about 600 of the 1,300-man force, and captured 700 other soldiers, including Santa Anna.

14. Texas vs. Mexico Santa Anna Surrenders

15. Texas Declaration of Independence

16. The Republic of Texas

17. Republic of Texas
In September 1836, Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Texas Republic.

18. Republic of Texas
Houston sent a delegation to Washington to ask President Andrew Jackson to annex Texas.

19. Republic of Texas
Jackson refused because Texas would enter the Union as a slave state
This would upset the balance of free states and slave states.

20. On December 29, 1845, Texas became a state.
Texas Annexation
On December 29, 1845, Texas became a state.