1. Brainstorm
Scenario: Your older brother or sister decides to move out of the house.
What potential problems or issues would he/she face going out on their own for the first time?

2. Basically: The same problems faced by the newly formed Republic of Texas when she moved out of Mexico’s house and went out on her own

3. Issues/Concerns $/Finances Protection/ Safety Transportation Education
Approval

4. Coin & paper $ had to be created
$/Finances
Protection/
Safety
Transportation
Education
Approval
The government had no $
Coin & paper $ had to be created
No credit rating and borrowed to fight the revolution
How do govt’s get $?
How does a gov’t protect itself?
From whom did Texas and Texans need protection?
Problems getting around from place to place
Providing for ways to trade and ship goods out & bring new settlers in
What is a country responsible for in terms of transportation?
Almost no schools in Texas and schools cost $
Free-public education had been tradition in the U.S. and was a complaint against the Mexican gov’t
What is the role of gov’t in providing for education?
Gov’ts have to be formally recognized to be legitimate or approved by existing gov’t so the two can do business
The most important provision of the Treaty of Velasco was that Mexico recognized Texas as independent

6. 3 Column Notes: The Republic Begins
Economic
Conditions in Houston & The Republic of Texas
Political
Social/Cultural