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Texas History

Texas History Dates

Question: What date did Mexico gain it's independence from Spain?

Answer: 1821

Question: What year did Texas officially become a state? (Annexation)

Answer: 1845

Question: What happened in 1823 in Texas? (it involved Stephen F. Austin)

Answer: Mexico granted land to Americans for colonization.


Question: When did the battle of the Alamo take place?

Answer: 1836

Question: What year did Mirabeau Lamar get elected president of the Republic of Texas? 
Answer: 1838

Presidents of Texas

Question: Who was the first president of the Republic of Texas?

Answer: David G. Burnet was officially the first president of Texas and was elected in March of 1836. He served 8 months as the first Texas president.


Question: Who was the first elected president of the Republic of Texas?

Answer: General Sam Houston


Question: What Texas president served more than one term?

Answer: President Sam Houston served two terms as president but not consecutively.


Question: Who was the last president of Texas?

Answer: Anson Jones


Question: What president served from 1838-1841? (Hint: he often fought with another Texas president)

Answer: Mirabeau B. Lamar

Famous Texans

Question: Who is Alonso Alvarez de Pineda and what did he do? 
Answer: A Spanish adventurer, he was the first known European to explore Texas in 1519.


Question: Who is Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca?

Answer: A Spanish conquistador who explored Texas after being shipwrecked on Galveston Island in 1528.


Question: Who was Stephen F. Austin?

Answer: He was an American settler who moved (in 1823) with 300 others to live in Texas when Texas was still a part of Mexico.


Question: Who was Moses Austin?

Answer: Moses Austin was the procurer of land and Stephen F. Austins father. He made the settlement of Texas possible but was too sick to make the journey back to Texas himself. He left this legacy to his son.


Question: Who was James Polk?

Answer: The U.S. President who helped annex Texas in 1845.


Remeber the Alamo

Question: What Texas Revolutionaries lead the battle of the Alamo?

Answer: William B. Travis
David (Davey) Crockett


Question: Who led the Mexican troops at the Alamo and how many troops did they have?

Answer: Santa Anna and around 1800 troops.


Question: How many days did the battle at the Alamo last?

Answer: 12 Days


Question: How many Texas soldiers where there at the Alamo?

Answer: Approximately 189


Question: Who won the battle at the Alamo?

Answer: Mexico

Annexation

Question: How many years passed before Texas gained it's independence?

Answer: 9 years


Question: Were Texans generally for or against annexation?

Answer: Texans wanted to be apart of the United States. They were for annexation!


Question: Why did it take 9 years to annex Texas?

Answer: The U.S. wouldn't annex Texas because Texas was a slave holding state and it would have caused an imbalance between non-slave holding and slave holding states in the U. S. 


Question: Texas was the ____ State added to the U. S.

Answer: 28th

Question: Why did Texans want to be apart of the U. S.?


Answer: For several reasons that include: one, being protected militarily from Mexico, and two, Texas needed monetary support form the U.S.