1. Vocabulary Builder 3
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. subsistence crop

19. noun a field of produce to be used on the farm where it is raised

20. Manifest Destiny

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

22. NOW ANOTHER WAY!

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

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

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

26. noun rule by the people
Popular
Sovereignty

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

28. noun a field of produce to be used on the farm where it is raised
subsistencecrop

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

38. Anson Jones
The last president of the Republic…who was in office…during the annexation of Texas.

39. Edwin W. Moore Commander…appointed by Lamar…
for the rebuilt Texas Navy.

40. William Goyens A free African American blacksmith…
Who interpreted Indian treaties…for Sam Houston.

41. The Cordova Rebellion
A secret rebel force…of Cherokee and other East Texas tribes…against the Republic.

42. 7 Texans and 35 Comanche died…which caused many deadly raids.
Council House Fight
7 Texans and 35 Comanche died…which caused many deadly raids.

43. Santa Fe Expedition
300 soldiers and merchants…with an invitation to join the Republic…were captured and imprisoned in Mexico City.

44. Texas Navy
Six vessels…that became the most powerful force…in the western Gulf of Mexico.

45. Texas Rangers
Provided their own horse, food, and guns…with almost no pay…to protect settlers.