Final Exam Review Part 2

Question 1

battle in 1840 between Texans and the Comanche after the Comanche did not release all their captives

Answer 1

Council House Fight

Question 2

Cherokee leader and friend of Sam Houston

Answer 2

Chief Bowles

Question 3

law passed in 1839 to protect a family’s home and up to 50 acres of land from seizure for debts

Answer 3

homestead law

Question 4

government expenses

Answer 4

expenditures

Question 5

peace and trade agreement signed in 1844 by Sam Houston and Comanche chief Buffalo Hump

Answer 5

Treaty of Tehuacana Creek

Question 6

term of office

Answer 6

administration

Question 7

judge who was sent to lay out the streets and begin buildings in Austin

Answer 7

Edwin Waller

Question 8

US economic crisis

Answer 8

panic of 1837

Question 9

Houston’s secretary of state

Answer 9

Stephen F Austin

Question 10

executive department heads in Houston’s administration

Answer 10

cabinet

Question 11

the formal joining of one political region to another

Answer 11

annexation

Question 12

government income

Answer 12

revenue

Question 13

approve or accept formally

Answer 13

ratify

Question 14

paper money issued by the republic of Texas during Lamar’s administration to help stop an economic crisis

Answer 14

red backs

Question 15

feud between two groups in East Texas that began over fake land certificates and erupted into violence

Answer 15

Regulator-Moderator War

Question 16

a budget in which spending does not exceed revenue

Answer 16

balanced budget

Question 17

his second term followed Lamar’s presidency

Answer 17

Sam Houston

Question 18

battle that followed the Council House Fight, in which more than 130 Comanche were killed

Answer 18

Battle of Plum Creek

Question 19

Comanche leader who signed peace and trade agreement with president Houston

Answer 19

Chief Buffalo Hump

Question 20

where more than 100 Cherokee, including Chief Bowles, were killed

Answer 20

Battle of the Neches