3rd Quarter Texas History

What were the causes of the Civil War?

• Taxes and tariffs

• Border disputes and immigration

• States rights and slavery

• Native Americans and Mexicans

What word means to withdraw from membership of a country?

• Annexation

• Secede/secession

• Adios!

• Secretive

What year did Texas become a republic?

What year was Texas annexed to the US, becoming a state?

Texas Rangers

• Patrolled the frontier and helped federal troops defend Texas.

• Helped fishermen navigate.

• Spies for the Confederate Army.

• Helped Santa Anna defend Mexico.

Who formed the Texas Rangers?

• San Houston

• Mirabeau Lamar

• Stephen F. Austin

• Santa Anna

Second president of the Republic of Texas

Did not support statehood

Increased the debt

Father of Texas Education

• Sam Houston

• Mirabeau Lamar

• Anson Jones

• Stephen F. Austin

The addition of a territory into existing area.

• Secede

• Fight

• Patrol

• Annex

Texas was the _____ state of the United States.

• 1st

• 26th

• 27th

• 28th

Reasons Texas wanted to join the United States

• To end slavery and fight Mexico

• the US had a better economy and a large army.

• Food and medicine

• Border patrol and fishing rights