1. Warm-up
Create 2 multiple choice questions using the following critical thinking stems. Use the Texas Revolution as your topic. What is the relationship between _________________& _________________? What are the possible outcomes of _________________________________?

2. The Republic of Texas and Statehood

3. Copy on Pg. 71 Conceptual Question: How can conflict create change?
Debatable Question:
Is growth and change through expansion positive or negative?

4. Vocabulary
Republic – government in which the power rests in its citizens who vote for representatives
Annexation – something being added or attached to something, like territory

5. Review
Texans win the Battle of San Jacinto and the Revolution on April 21, 1836
Santa Anna signs the Treaty of Velasco on May 14, 1836
Texas becomes its own country…
The Republic of Texas!

6. From this…

7. To this…

8. To this…

9. 1st President Sam Houston is elected in a landslide
1st term
Makes Houston the first capital
Elected again as the third president ( )
Lorenzo De Zavala* served as the 1st Vice President

10. 2nd President
Mirabeau Lamar is elected because Houston cannot serve back to back terms
Served
Moves capital to Austin

11. 3rd President (4th term)
Anson Jones
Presided over Annexation

12. The Republic of Texas 1836-1845 Problems: Unrest in the army
Debt (No money)
Native American raids
Border debates
Troubles with Mexico
Education
Getting independence recognized from other countries
What conclusion can you draw from this list of problems?

13. Their Policies Houston Pro-annexation Compromise with Natives
Lamar
Pro-annexation
Compromise with Natives
Little military
Try to borrow money
Capital in Houston
Future governor
Remain a country
Remove the Natives
Increase military
Increase paper currency
Capital in Austin
Father of education

14. Protection
Texans faced conflicts with Natives in the West and Mexicans along the border
Stephen Austin created the Texas Rangers, but they grew during the Republic
Jack Coffee Hays was most famous Ranger
Lamar believed the Texans
needed a Navy, their commander
was Edwin Moore

15. Statehood present
Texas is annexed (added) to the U.S. in 1845 as the 28th state
Texas becomes the only state in the union to have once been a country