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| archives | public documents |
| balance budget | a budget in which spending does not exceed revenue |
| first capitol of the republic | Columbia |
| Throckmorton | Secretary of War |
| Dr. Anson Jones | served as secretary of State under Houston, ran in 1844 for new vice president |
| immigrant agent | one who helps bring people into a country to take up residence |
| veteran | a person with long experience in the armed forces |
| capital | the money invested in a business |
| speculator | a person who buys land to sell at a profit when the price goes up |
| heir | one who inherits or is entitled to inherit property or money |
| milliner | a person who makes, trims or sews women's hats |
| tanner | a person who makes hides into leathre |
| denomination | a religious organization |
| travois | a vehicle consisting of a platform and trailing poles used by the Plains people |
| academy | a school that offers high school course |
| wheelwright | a person who makes and repairs wheels and wheeled vehicles |
| Henri Castro | served 2 years for south west of San Antonio |
| Ruetersville | very first grant college in Texas |
| teamster | a person who drives or directs a team of animals |
| special session | a meeting in which the legislative decides on a special issue |
| joint resolution | a resolution passed by both houses of a legistive body that has the force of the law |
| recognition | formal acknowledgement of the existence of a national government |
| flagship | the ship that caries the commander of a fleet |
| Morfit | was to investigate the general stte of affairs there (Texas) |
| Wharton | went to Washington D.C> to work for both recognition and annexation |
| Hunt | sent after Wharton to help, first Texas minister to the United States |
| Henderson | to obtain recognition and commercial treaties with France and Great Britain |
| Mier expedition | lead by Col. Fisher, 900 soldiers moved across the Rio Grande and attacked the Mexican town of Mier |
| Somervell | lead 750 militia to patrol the area from San Anotnio to Laredo on Rio Grande` |
| interest | income receivedf from capital |
| calico | a cotton fabric with colored patterns |
| Gail Borden | invented meat ..... |
| secede | to withdraw from an organized nation |
| conscription | enrollment for military |
| unionist | supports union |
| sovereign | having supreme power |
| exemption | of being freed from duty |
| vigilante | members of a group acts as police power |
| perpetual | continuing forever |
| blockade | to block or obsruct use |
