| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Moses Austin | first Anglo American to get permission from Spain to bring American settlers into Texas |
| Stephen Austin | Father of Texas and founded the first Anglo-American Colony in Texas |
| Old Three Hundred | settlers who received land grants in Stephen F Austin's first colony |
| Jane Long | called the mother of Texas |
| GTT | "Gone To Texas" |
| Empresarios | helped bring more settlers to Texas |
| Santa Anna | led the Mexicans against the Alamo |
| Law of 1830 | Mexican leaders only let people from Mexico and Europe settle in Texas |
| William Travis | signed the letter from the Alamo "Victory or Death" |
| Battle of Gonzales | first battle of the Texas Revolution over a small brass cannon |
| Juan Seguin | fought with Houston at the battle of San Jacinto and helped defeat Santa Anna's army |
| Davy Crockett | last one alive at the Alamo |
| Fall of Alamo | March 6, 1836 |
| Texas Declaration of Independence | Signed March 2, 1836 |
| Mirabeau Lamar | Vice-President and 2nd President of Texas Republic |
| Battle of San Jacinto | April 21, 1836 |
| Sam Houston | captured Santa Anna, 1st and 3rd president of the Texas Republic |
| Texas Rangers | law officers who protected the Texas frontier (land) |
| Texas Navy | protected the coastal towns -made them safe from attacks from Mexico |
| First Capital of Texas | Austin |
| Archives War | settlers attacked the moving of the archives because they thought that the capital was going to be moved also |
| William Goyens | one of the richest Free Africans in Texas with 12,000 acres of land - He was a friend to Sam Houston and favored the Indians |
| Redbacks | new dollar bills in Texas around 1830's |
| Largest European immigrant group in 1842 | Germans |
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