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THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS

PRESIDENTS

Question: This president of Texas had an Indian policy of peace and fairness, called on the Texas Rangers to guard the frontier and tried to sell navy ships.
Answer: Sam Houston

Question: This president is known as the "Father of Texas Education".
Answer: Mirabeau Lamar

Question: This president of Texas was known as the "Architect of Annexation".
Answer: Anson Jones

Question: Name the 3 problems faced by the presidents of the Republic of Texas.
Answer: 1. Threat of Mexico

2. Conflict with local Natives

3. Unrest in the Army

Question: This president of the Republic of Texas moved the capital to Austin and opposed annexation.
Answer: Mirabeau Lamar

POLICIES

Question: What was Lamar's domestic policy regarding Indian relations with Texas?
Answer: Lamar wanted Indians removed from the frontier. He felt that they blocked the Republic's westward expansion.

Question: What is the definition of domestic policy?
Answer: A government's plans to deal with issues inside the country

Question: What were Lamar's three MAIN goals during his term as president of Texas?
Answer: 1. Expand Texas into an empire

2. Bolster the armed forces

3. Created public schools

Question: What is the definition of foreign policy?
Answer: A government's plans to deal with issues outside the country

Question: Name at least four of Sam Houston's policies concerning Texas during his presidencies.
Answer: 1. Peace with Indians

2. Texas Rangers called to guard the frontier

3. Tried to sell Texas navy ships

4. Favored Annexation

5. Peace with Mexico

EVENTS

Question: When did Texas become the 28th state of the United States?
Answer: 1845

Question: This event led to an increased Comanche hostility toward the Texans.
Answer: The Council House Fight

Question: Put the following events in chronological order:

Lamar elected president, Sam Houston elected first President of Texas, Anson Jones elected president, Texas wins independence from Mexico, Texas is annexed by the United States and Sam Houston elected for a second term as president.

Answer: 1. Texas wins independence from Mexico

2. Sam Houston elected first president

3. Lamar elected president

4. Houston elected for a second term

5. Jones elected president

6. Texas is annex by the USA

Question: Residents of Austin feared that the president (Houston) was moving the capital to Houston when he tried to move the archives that were stored in Austin. They fired a cannon at rangers as they loaded records onto wagons. This conflict, called WHAT, ended with the archives staying in Austin.
Answer: The Archives War

Question: To punish the men that were captured trying to attack Mexico City, Santa Anna ordered the execution of 10 percent of the men captured. This "episode" was a lottery where 17 men drew lots to see who would be executed. What was this episode called?
Answer: The Black Bean Episode

PEOPLE

Question: He was elected twice as President of Texas in non-consecutive terms.
Answer: Sam Houston

Question:

This president of Texas thought the best solution to Texas’s problems was annexation to the UnitedStates.

Answer: Houston

Question: This man was a free black man who thrived in Nacogdoches during time of slavery in Texas and became wealthy during the Republic Era. Although illiterate, he became a successful blacksmith, businessman and a respected citizen. During the Texas Revolution he had the important task of keeping the Cherokees friendly with the Texans and was an interpreter for Sam Houston.
Answer: William Goyens

Question: She lived in San Antonio during the Republic and Civil War Eras of Texas. She would kept diaries of her frontier experiences and in 1880 she shaped them into memoirs. She provided an eyewitness account of the Council House Fight in San Antonio in 1840 and made efforts to see that the pioneer pas was not forgotten.
Answer: Mary Maverick

Question: He was the Chief of the Cherokees in Texas during the Republic Era. He would be killed at the Battle of Neches in 1839.
Answer: Chief Bowles

MISC.

Question: Name the 7 principles of government.
Answer: Individual Rights, Checks and Balances, Federalism, Popular Sovereignty, Republicanism, Limited Government and Separation of Powers

Question: Mayor City Council Municipal Courts

The above are what type of government?

Answer: municipal government

Question: Name the 3 reasons the mission system failed in Texas during the Spanish Colonial Era.
Answer:

• Rapid spread of disease

• Native Americans lack of interest

• French threat left after the Louisiana Territory was sold

Question: Name the 5 "Causes of Conflict" which began the Texas Revolution.
Answer: 1. Freedonian Rebellion

2. Mier y Teran Report

3. Law of April 6, 1830

4. Turtle Bayou Resolutions

5. Arrest of Stephen F. Austin

Question: Article 1, section 9 of the Texas Constitution states:

"SEARCHES AND SEIZURES. The people shall be secure in the persons, houses, papers and possessions, from all unreasonable seizures or searches, and no warrant to search any place, or to seize any persona or thing, shall issue without describing them as near as may be, nor without probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation."

What principle of government is this?

(HINT: NOT INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS)

Answer: Limited Government