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Ten Years a nation
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Constitution of 1836
This is the date that the constitution of 1836 it almost exactly copied the U.S contitution. -
Fort Parker
The Fort Parker massacre was an event in May 1836 in which members of the pioneer Parker family were killed in a raid by Native Americans. -
Sam Houston 1rst President
He was the first president in Texas and flipped it around quite a bit. -
Recognized
This is the date that President Jackson officially recognized texas as an independent nation which is a big feat with all the work you have to go through to do it. -
Mirabeau B. Lamar
He was the second president of Texas but what set him apart from Sam Houston was he didnt want Texas to be annexed. -
Council house fight
this is a conflict between republic of texas officials and a comanche peace delegation. -
Plum Creek
The Battle of Plum Creek was a clash between militia and Rangers of the Republic of Texas and a huge Comanche war party. -
Santa Fe Expedition
The Texas Santa Fe Expedition was a commercial and military expedition to secure the Republic of Texas's claims to parts of Northern New Mexico for Texas in 1841. -
Sam Houston 3rd President
He was liked so much that he was made the 3rd President and after that became the U.S senator from texas. -
German Immigrants
In 1842, a group of German noblemen formed the Verein zum Schutz deutscher Einwanderer in Texas (English: Group for the Protection of German immigrants in Texas), called the Verein or the Adelsverein, to secure land in Texas for immigrants. -
Archives War
The Texas Archive War was an 1842 dispute over an attempted move of the Republic of Texas national archives from Austin to Houston. -
Black Bean Episode
To help determine who would die Huerta had 159 white beans and seventeen black beans placed in a pot. -
Anson Jones 4th president
He was the last president of Texas and he was in power when the state of Texas was annexed so he was known as the Architect of Annexation. -
Annexation of Texas
In 1845, the United States of America annexed the Republic of Texas and admitted it to the Union as the 28th state. The U.S. thus inherited Texas's border dispute with Mexico; this quickly led to the Mexican-American War.
