Hw Ids Pg.481-486

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Eamon Barkhordarian 4/22/08 Helsaple 4th period Social Studies

HOMEWORK I.D’S pg.481-486 William Travis (Mr. Helsaple)- A 26-year-old leader of the defenders of the Alamo. He wrote a letter asking for help but was denied and eventually killed. Battle of Goliad (Mr. Helsaple)- A defeat of the Texans by General Santa Anna. 400 Texans were captured, charged with treason against Mexico, and executed. Davy Crockett (481)- A person who lost his seat in congress in 1835. He left Tennessee and headed southwest to Texas. His deeds in Texas would bring him greater fame than his adventures on the frontier or his years in Congress. Tejanos (481)- Mexicans who claimed Texas as their home. At the time, most of Texas’s 3,000 residences were tejanos. Enpresarios (481)- The people who obtained the grants that offered vast tracts to people. These people also recruited settlers. Stephen F. Austin (481)- Son of Moses Austin, who inherited his father’s land from the first land grant when his father died. He recruited 300 American families to settle the fertile land along the Brazos and Colorado Rivers of Texas. His success made him a leader among the American settlers in Texas. Decree (482)- An official order. In 1830 Mexico issued a decree. This decree stopped all immigration from the United States. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna (482)- The Mexican president at the time. In 1833 he agreed to remove the ban on American settlers. However, he refused to change Texas’s political status. Alamo (483)- When Santa Anna’s army reached San Antonio in 1836, they found the Alamo. The Alamo was a small Texan force barricaded inside a nearby mission called the Alamo. Annex (486)- To take control of. Sam Houston, the president of the Texas at the time asked the United States to annex Texas. However, the nation’s president, Andrew Jackson, refused because the addition of another slave state would upset the balance of slave and Free states in Congress.