| A | B |
|---|
| churches | worship and religious instruction |
| churches | social centers |
| teachers in rural communities | paid in farm produce |
| Butterfield Overland Line | stagecoach line in Texas |
| John Neely Bryan | started a settlement that later became Dallas |
| Dona Maria del Carmen Calvillo | Tejano who was a successful rancher |
| William Goyens | free African American who started a freight line in Texas |
| Hemestead Act | law that protects a family's possesssions against seizure for payment of debt |
| reason slavery increased in Texas | many Texans raised cotton with slave labor |
| reason slavery increased in Texas | the Republic did not set limits on slavery |
| reason slavery increased in Texas | Most Anglo Texans believed slavery was necessary for farming |
| reason many Mexicans came to Texas after the revolution | the opportunity to own land |
| reason getting started in the cattle business was easy | wild cattle herds roams the plains areas |
| most common job | agriculture |
| John S. "Rip" Ford | Texas Ranger, frontiersman, physician, lawyer, plitician, playwright |
| Richard Salmon | first publice school teacher hired in Texas |
| subsistence crops | crops raised for food |
| cash crops | crops raised to sell for profit |
| development of towns | this meant more jobs for people in various trades |
| W. S. Peters and Associates | brought settlers from Missouri, Tennessee, and Illinois |
| Henri Castro | brought settlers from France, Germany, and Switzerland |
| Rosanna Osterman | efforts led to the first Jewish services held in Texas |
| population tripled | between the Battle of San Jacinto and annexation |
| first telegraph lines | between Houston and Galveston |
| wagons drawn by oxen | most goods transported |
| railroads | established between coastal cities |
| stagecoaches | faced poor quality of roads |
| stagecoaches | passengers might have to get out and push |
| steamboats | faced shallow and crooked rivers |
| steamboats | faced blockages in rivers |
