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Quick questions:
1. How long was Texas a nation?
2. How many different presidents did it have?
3. Where was its final capitol location?
4. What university received its charter during the nation's brief life?
5. A 175th anniversary is called what?
6. What did the first president do that many considered treasonous?
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Answers below
1. 10 years
2. 4 (Although Sam Houston served two non-consecutive terms)
3. Houston
4. Baylor
5. Terquasquicentennial
6. After the Battle of San Jacinto, he (David G. Burnet) negotiated a treaty allowing Santa Anna to return safely to Mexico in exchange for all Mexican troops withdrawing below the Rio Grande.
The Wikipedia page. There's very little I know about the brief Republic of Texas.
10 comments:
1. I would have thought 9 years.
2. Huh.
3. I would have guessed Washington on the Brazos.
4. Sic 'em!
5. I can't even say that.
March 2 & April 21. My two favorite holidays. All Hail Texas!
My Other Brother Darryl
I really enjoyed Texas Monthly's salute to the Terquasquicentennial. The only problem with reading it is that I had to hide it in a Cheaper Than Dirt catalog so that no one would discover my latent liberal tendencies.
6. The name of the dumbest Texas governor after it became a state?
Answer below:
6. Rick Perry
I thought you might mention that Sam Houston, serving as Governor in 1860, refused to support secession or the Confederacy, and resigned in protest.
And Texas, Our Texas is the state song not The Eyes of Texas.
A Fort Worth native is one of the two people who wrote our state song.
You missed question 3.
Austin was the last capitol.
Houston 1837-39
Austin 1839-45
Double Fake S. F. Austin
That's funny 10:25
Well I'll beeeee looky here
Right after 6 is 7
7. The first dumbest poster on this LL post is-----
Answer below:
6. Annon at 10:25
Brave men those who fought the Mexican for Texas! I love Texas history.
They sought independence from Mexico so they could keep their slaves ( about 5000 in Texas then ) because Mexico's constitution outlawed it. They also were not keen on having to be catholic to live here.
Not letting them have slaves and making them be catholic was the oppression they had to be free from. That speaking Spanish probably was an irritation as well.
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