After The AlamoTexas Road to Statehood

Final Battle-Victory at San Jacinto

Sam Houston’s deaf courier Erastus Seguin captured Santa Anna’s courier The Texan Army knew all of Santa Anna’s plans

Houston called for the war council and they decided to attack the Mexican troups during their siesta

Battle lasted approximately 18 minutes

Santa Anna was captured and was taken prisoner

Manifest Destiny

Most of America believed in Texas’ cause

Saw this will as a mandate to expand to the Pacific Ocean~Manifest Destiny

President Jackson wanted Texas to become a part of the North (Union)

Treaty of Velasco

President Burnett negotiated a peace treaty with Santa Anna

On April, 14,1836 they signed a secret treaty

They set the border at the Rio Grande

Launching a New Government

In September 1836, Texas voters elected 14 senators and 29 representatives

Sam Houston became President of Texas and Mirabeau Lamar was elected Vice President

Texas asked to be annexed into into the United States

Key issues Slavery

High Debt

Relations with Indians

Houston’s 3 goals Gain control of the army

Keep the peace in Texas

Texas to be on strong financial footing

Houston vs Lamar

Sam Houston and Mirabeau Lamar became bitter enemies

Lamar was elected President of Texas

Texas failed to obtain loans from other countries to assist in paying off Texas’ debt

Lamar

Tried to settle the dispute between Mexico and Texas peacefully but failed

Did not make efforts to have Texas annexed into the United States

Texas was recognized as a nation by France, Britain, the Netherlands and Belguim and trade agreements were established Lamar failed to get loans from other countries to help pay off Texas’ debt

Strengthened the military To keep Texas free of Mexico

Remove Native Americans from the frontier In 1839 Lamar sent the Texas Rangers to fight the Mexicans and the

Cherokee Indians

Documents were found tying the Cherokees to the Mexicans that said the Cherokees were plotting to help Mexico retake Texas

During the Battle of Neeches, the Texas Rangers drove the Cherokees out of East Texas

Council House Fight

The Comanche Indians controlled most of the Texas plains

In 1840, one of the groups of the Comanches decided to make peace with Texas

They agreed to meet with Texas officials in San Antonio at the Council House and to return captured Texans

Matilda Lockhart had been beaten and disfigured by the Comanches and she said there were other captives the Comanches were still holding

This angered the Texans and they tried to take the Comanche leaders hostage

The fight spread from the Council House to the Indians outside

35 Comanches and 7 Texans were killed

This enraged the Comanches and they began to attack Texans from the Plains to the Gulf Coast

Texas Army, led by Felix Huston defeated the Comanches at the Battle of Plum Creek

Treaty of 1844 After Sam Houston second term as president of Texas,

Dr. Anson Jones was elected.

Texans wanted to become a part of the United States Reasons for statehood

Being part of the United States would limit the threat from Mexico

Texas would be able to use US currency (money)

Reason against statehood

Would Texas be a free or a slave state

US was in a depression…Panic or 1837

Texas was required to give up all of their land to help to pay off the debt

US rejected this treaty 35-16

Joint Resolution of 1845