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23 Cards in this Set
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Treaty of Paris |
changed the balance of power in America |
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Louisiana Purchase |
doubled the size of the United States
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Adams-Onis Treaty |
settled a boundary dispute between the United States and Spain. |
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Plan of Marques de Rubi |
resulted in the building of 15 forts across Mexico |
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alliance |
establishes a union between nations |
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Neutral Ground |
was an area that became a haven for smugglers |
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New Orleans was kept out of British hands as the result of the efforts of... |
Spain |
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Jean Laffite |
was pardoned by President James Madison for aiding Americans in the War of 1812.
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Republic |
government in which voters choose people to represent them.
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Augustus Magee |
Officer who left the U.S. Army and challenged Spanish rule of Texas. |
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Louis Michel Aury |
appointed commissioner of Galveston because he favored independence from Spain. |
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General Arredondo |
executed settlers he suspected of helping Gutierrez de Lara. |
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The Gutierrez-Magee forces were called |
the Republican Army of the North |
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Lallemand and his followers left their settlement on the Trinity River because |
the Spanish governor in Texas sent troops against them. |
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Laffite refused to help James Long because |
said revolutionaries would not win. |
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The Republican Army of the North included |
Tejanos, Native Americans, and Anglo Americans. |
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Goliad |
was once home to approximately 1,200 settlers |
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Laredo |
became a center for ranching |
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El Camino Real |
ran from Nacogdoches and San Antonio to San Juan Bautista |
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Opelousas Trail |
connected Texas and Louisiana |
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province of Texas |
experienced little growth during Spanish rule |
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Anglo Americans from Arkansas settled |
along the Red River |
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By 1821, Texas had only three settlements in its interior |
San Antonio, Goliad, and Nacogdoches |
