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Sam Houston, the Glossary

Samuel Houston (March 2, 1793 – July 26, 1863) was an American general and statesman who played a prominent role in the Texas Revolution.^[1]

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A Tribute to Courage

A Tribute to Courage monument is a statue of Sam Houston located in Huntsville, Texas (where Sam Houston lived and died), which is 65 miles north of the city of Houston (named in his honor).

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Abolitionism in the United States

In the United States, abolitionism, the movement that sought to end slavery in the country, was active from the colonial era until the American Civil War, the end of which brought about the abolition of American slavery, except as punishment for a crime, through the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (ratified 1865).

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Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Sam Houston and Abraham Lincoln are candidates in the 1860 United States presidential election.

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Alamo Mission

The Alamo is a historic Spanish mission and fortress compound founded in the 18th century by Roman Catholic missionaries in what is now San Antonio, Texas, United States.

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American frontier

The American frontier, also known as the Old West, and popularly known as the Wild West, encompasses the geography, history, folklore, and culture associated with the forward wave of American expansion in mainland North America that began with European colonial settlements in the early 17th century and ended with the admission of the last few contiguous western territories as states in 1912.

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American Quarter Horse

The American Quarter Horse, or Quarter Horse, is an American breed of horse that excels at sprinting short distances.

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American Revolutionary War

The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was a military conflict that was part of the broader American Revolution, in which American Patriot forces organized as the Continental Army and commanded by George Washington defeated the British Army.

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Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was an American lawyer, planter, general, and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837. Sam Houston and Andrew Jackson are American people of Scotch-Irish descent, American prosecutors, members of the United States House of Representatives who owned slaves, people of the Creek War, Tennessee Jacksonians, United States Army personnel of the War of 1812 and United States senators who owned slaves.

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Andrew Jackson Houston

Andrew Jackson Houston (June 21, 1854June 26, 1941) was an American politician. Sam Houston and Andrew Jackson Houston are Texas Democrats.

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Andrew Stevenson

Andrew Stevenson (January 21, 1784 – January 25, 1857) was an American politician, lawyer and diplomat. Sam Houston and Andrew Stevenson are members of the United States House of Representatives who owned slaves.

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Anson Jones

Anson Jones (January 20, 1798 – January 9, 1858) was a medical doctor, businessman, member of Congress, and the fourth and last president of the Republic of Texas. Sam Houston and Anson Jones are people of the Texas Revolution and presidents of the Republic of Texas.

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Antonio López de Santa Anna

Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón, usually known as Antonio López de Santa Anna (21 February 1794 – 21 June 1876),Callcott, Wilfred H., "Santa Anna, Antonio Lopez De,", Retrieved 18 April 2017.

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Arkansas Territory

The Arkansas Territory was a territory of the United States from July 4, 1819, to June 15, 1836, when the final extent of Arkansas Territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Arkansas.

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Army of the Republic of Texas

The Texas Army, officially the Army of the Republic of Texas, was the land force branch of the Texas Military Forces during the Republic of Texas. Sam Houston and Army of the Republic of Texas are army of the Republic of Texas generals.

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Asa Brigham

Asa Brigham (31 August 1788 – 3 July 1844) was a Texas politician, businessman and signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence (1836), which declared independence from Mexico. Sam Houston and Asa Brigham are people of the Texas Revolution and signers of the Texas Declaration of Independence.

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Ashbel Smith

Ashbel Smith (August 13, 1805 – January 21, 1886) was a slave owner, pioneer physician, diplomat, and official of the Republic of Texas, Confederate officer and first President of the Board of Regents of the University of Texas. Sam Houston and Ashbel Smith are people of Texas in the American Civil War and Texas Democrats.

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Austin, Texas

Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat and most populous city of Travis County, with portions extending into Hays and Williamson counties.

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Battle of Coleto

The Battle of Coleto, also known as the Battle of Coleto Creek, the Battle of the Prairie, and the Batalla del Encinal del Perdido, was fought on March 19–20, 1836, during the Goliad campaign of the Texas Revolution.

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Battle of Gonzales

The Battle of Gonzales was the first military engagement of the Texas Revolution.

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Battle of Horseshoe Bend

The Battle of Horseshoe Bend (also known as Tohopeka, Cholocco Litabixbee, or The Horseshoe), was fought during the War of 1812 in the Mississippi Territory, now central Alabama.

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Battle of San Jacinto

The Battle of San Jacinto (Batalla de San Jacinto), fought on April 21, 1836, in present-day La Porte and Deer Park, Texas, was the final and decisive battle of the Texas Revolution.

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Battle of Shiloh

The Battle of Shiloh, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, was a major battle in the American Civil War fought on April 6–7, 1862.

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Baylor University

Baylor University is a private Baptist research university in Waco, Texas.

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Blount County, Tennessee

Blount County is a county located in the East Tennessee Grand Division of the U.S. state of Tennessee.

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C-SPAN

Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network (C-SPAN) is an American cable and satellite television network, created in 1979 by the cable television industry as a nonprofit public service.

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Córdova Rebellion

The Córdova Rebellion, in 1838, was an uprising instigated in and around Nacogdoches, Texas.

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Centralist Republic of Mexico

The Centralist Republic of Mexico (República Centralista de México), or in the anglophone scholarship, the Central Republic, officially the Mexican Republic (República Mexicana), was a unitary political regime established in Mexico on 23 October 1835, under a new constitution known as the Siete Leyes after conservatives repealed the federalist Constitution of 1824 and ended the First Mexican Republic.

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Cherokee

The Cherokee (translit, or translit) people are one of the Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands of the United States.

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Cherokee language

Number of speakers Cherokee is classified as Critically Endangered by UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger Cherokee or Tsalagi (Tsalagi Gawonihisdi) is an endangered-to-moribund Iroquoian language and the native language of the Cherokee people.

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Church Hill (Lexington, Virginia)

Church Hill, also known as Timber Ridge Plantation, is a historic plantation house located near Lexington, Rockbridge County, Virginia.

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Classical antiquity

Classical antiquity, also known as the classical era, classical period, classical age, or simply antiquity, is the period of cultural European history between the 8th century BC and the 5th century AD comprising the interwoven civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome known together as the Greco-Roman world, centered on the Mediterranean Basin.

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Coahuila y Tejas

Coahuila y Tejas, officially the Estado Libre y Soberano de Coahuila y Tejas, was one of the constituent states of the newly established United Mexican States under its 1824 Constitution.

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Colonial history of the United States

The colonial history of the United States covers the period of European colonization of North America from the early 16th century until the incorporation of the Thirteen Colonies into the United States after the Revolutionary War.

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Commander-in-chief

A commander-in-chief or supreme commander is the person who exercises supreme command and control over an armed force or a military branch.

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Compromise of 1850

The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850 that temporarily defused tensions between slave and free states in the years leading up to the American Civil War.

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Confederate States of America

The Confederate States of America (CSA), commonly referred to as the Confederate States (C.S.), the Confederacy, or the South, was an unrecognized breakaway republic in the Southern United States that existed from February 8, 1861, to May 9, 1865.

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Constitutional Union Party (United States)

The Constitutional Union Party was a United States political party active during the 1860 elections.

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Consultation (Texas)

The Consultation, also known as the Texian Government, served as the provisional government of Mexican Texas from October 1835 to March 1836 during the Texas Revolution.

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Contingent election

In the United States, a contingent election is used to elect the president or vice president if no candidate receives a majority of the whole number of electors appointed.

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Convention of 1833

The Convention of 1833 (April 1–13, 1833), a political gathering of settlers of Mexican Texas, was a successor to the Convention of 1832, whose requests had not been addressed by the Mexican government.

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Convention of 1836

The Convention of 1836 was the meeting of elected delegates in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas in March 1836.

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Creek War

The Creek War (also the Red Stick War or the Creek Civil War) was a regional conflict between opposing Native American factions, European powers, and the United States during the early 19th century.

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David Adickes

David Pryor Adickes (born January 19, 1927, Huntsville, Texas) is a modernist sculptor and painter.

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David Catchings Dickson

David Catchings Dickson (February 25, 1818 – June 5, 1880) was an American politician and physician in early Texas who served as the ninth Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives and as the fourth Lieutenant Governor of Texas. Sam Houston and David Catchings Dickson are Texas Know Nothings.

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David G. Burnet

David Gouverneur Burnet (April 14, 1788 – December 5, 1870) was an early politician within the Republic of Texas, serving as the interim president of Texas in 1836, the second vice president of the Republic of Texas (1839–1841), and the secretary of State (1846) for the new state of Texas after it was annexed to the United States. Sam Houston and David G. Burnet are American emigrants to Mexico, people of the Texas Revolution and presidents of the Republic of Texas.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

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Democratic-Republican Party

The Republican Party, retroactively called the Democratic-Republican Party (a modern term created by modern historians and political scientists), and also referred to as the Jeffersonian Republican Party among other names, was an American political party founded by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the early 1790s that championed liberalism, republicanism, individual liberty, equal rights, decentralization, free markets, free trade, agrarianism, and sympathy with the French Revolution.

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District attorney

In the United States, a district attorney (DA), county attorney, county prosecutor, state's attorney, prosecuting attorney, commonwealth's attorney, state attorney or solicitor is the chief prosecutor or chief law enforcement officer representing a U.S. state in a local government area, typically a county or a group of counties.

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Edward Burleson

Edward Murray Burleson (December 15, 1798 – December 26, 1851) was the third vice president of the Republic of Texas. Sam Houston and Edward Burleson are army of the Republic of Texas generals and people of the Texas Revolution.

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Edward Clark (governor)

Edward Clark (April 1, 1815May 4, 1880) was the eighth Governor of Texas. Sam Houston and Edward Clark (governor) are Confederate States of America state governors and people of Texas in the American Civil War.

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Eliza Allen (Tennessee)

Eliza (née Allen) Houston Douglass (December 2, 1809 – March 3, 1861) was the first wife of Sam Houston.

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Eponym

An eponym is a person, a place, or a thing after whom or for which someone or something is, or is believed to be, named.

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First lieutenant

First lieutenant is a commissioned officer military rank in many armed forces; in some forces, it is an appointment.

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Fort Sam Houston

Fort Sam Houston is a U.S. Army post in San Antonio, Texas.

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Francis Lubbock

Francis Richard Lubbock (October 16, 1815June 22, 1905) was a businessman, slaveholder, and politician from the American South who played a significant role in Texas history. Sam Houston and Francis Lubbock are Confederate States of America state governors and people of Texas in the American Civil War.

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Franklin Pierce

Franklin Pierce (November 23, 1804October 8, 1869) was an American politician who served as the 14th president of the United States from 1853 to 1857.

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Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

The Fugitive Slave Act or Fugitive Slave Law was a law passed by the 31st United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern interests in slavery and Northern Free-Soilers.

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Galveston, Texas

Galveston is a coastal resort city and port off the Southeast Texas coast on Galveston Island and Pelican Island in the U.S. state of Texas.

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George Washington Baines

George Washington Baines (December 29, 1809 – December 28, 1882) was an American politician, Baptist preacher, journalist, slaveowner, and educator. Sam Houston and George Washington Baines are Baptists from Texas.

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George Washington Hockley

George Washington Hockley (1802 – June 6, 1854) was a Texas revolutionary who served as secretary of war for the Republic of Texas. Sam Houston and George Washington Hockley are people of the Texas Revolution.

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George Whitfield Terrell

George Whitfield Terrell (c. 1803 – 1846) was an attorney general, judge, and diplomat in the Republic of Texas.

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Goliad massacre

The Goliad massacre was an event of the Texas Revolution that occurred on March 27, 1836, following the Battle of Refugio and the Battle of Coleto; 425–445 prisoners of war from the Texian Army of the Republic of Texas were executed by the Mexican Army in the town of Goliad, Texas.

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Gone to Texas (film)

Gone to Texas is a 1986 American made-for-television biographical film originally titled Houston: The Legend of Texas.

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Governor of Tennessee

The governor of Tennessee is the head of government of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces.

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Governor of Texas

The Governor of Texas heads the state government of Texas and is the highest elected official in the state.

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Greek War of Independence

The Greek War of Independence, also known as the Greek Revolution or the Greek Revolution of 1821, was a successful war of independence by Greek revolutionaries against the Ottoman Empire between 1821 and 1829.

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Hall of Great Westerners

The Hall of Great Westerners was established by the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in 1958.

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Hardin Richard Runnels

Hardin Richard Runnels (August 30, 1820 – December 25, 1873) was an American politician.

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Henry Clay

Henry Clay Sr. (April 12, 1777June 29, 1852) was an American lawyer and statesman who represented Kentucky in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. Sam Houston and Henry Clay are members of the United States House of Representatives who owned slaves and United States senators who owned slaves.

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Henry Smith (Texas governor)

Henry Smith (May 20, 1788 – March 4, 1851) was the first American-born Governor of the Mexican territory of Texas and briefly presided over the revolution there, serving during the Battle of Goliad and Battle of San Jacinto. Sam Houston and Henry Smith (Texas governor) are Texas Consultation delegates.

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Hermann Park

Hermann Park is a urban park in Houston, Texas, situated at the southern end of the Museum District.

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History of slavery in Texas

The history of slavery in Texas began slowly at first during the first few phases in Texas' history.

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Hiwassee Island

Hiwassee Island, also known as Jollys Island and Benham Island, is located in Meigs County, Tennessee, at the confluence of the Tennessee and Hiwassee Rivers.

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Houston

Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and in the Southern United States.

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Huntsville, Texas

Huntsville is a city in and the county seat of Walker County, Texas, United States.

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Independent politician

An independent, non-partisan politician or non-affiliated politician is a politician not affiliated with any political party or bureaucratic association.

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Indian removal

The Indian removal was the United States government's policy of ethnic cleansing through the forced displacement of self-governing tribes of American Indians from their ancestral homelands in the eastern United States to lands west of the Mississippi Riverspecifically, to a designated Indian Territory (roughly, present-day Oklahoma), which many scholars have labeled a genocide.

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Interstate 45

Interstate 45 (I-45) is a major Interstate Highway located entirely within the U.S. state of Texas.

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Isaac L. Anderson

Isaac L. Anderson (1780–1857) was a Presbyterian minister and the founder in 1819 of Southern and Western Theological Seminary in Maryville, Tennessee.

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J. Pinckney Henderson

James Pinckney Henderson (March 31, 1808 – June 4, 1858) was an American and Republic of Texas lawyer, politician, and soldier, and the first governor of the State of Texas. Sam Houston and J. Pinckney Henderson are governors of Texas and United States senators who owned slaves.

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James Buchanan

James Buchanan Jr. (April 23, 1791June 1, 1868) was an American lawyer, diplomat, and politician who served as the 15th president of the United States from 1857 to 1861. Sam Houston and James Buchanan are American people of Scotch-Irish descent.

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James Collinsworth

James Thompson Collinsworth (1802 – July 11, 1838) was an American-born Texan lawyer and political figure in early history of the Republic of Texas. Sam Houston and James Collinsworth are people of the Texas Revolution and signers of the Texas Declaration of Independence.

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James K. Polk

James Knox Polk (November 2, 1795 – June 15, 1849) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 11th president of the United States from 1845 to 1849. Sam Houston and James K. Polk are American people of Scotch-Irish descent, members of the United States House of Representatives who owned slaves and Tennessee lawyers.

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Jedidiah Morse

Jedidiah Morse (August 23, 1761June 9, 1826) was a geographer whose textbooks became a staple for students in the United States.

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John Austin Wharton (died 1838)

John Austin Wharton (April 1806 – December 17, 1838) was distinguished Texian statesman, lawyer, and soldier. Sam Houston and John Austin Wharton (died 1838) are people of the Texas Revolution and Texas Consultation delegates.

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John Bell (Tennessee politician)

John Bell (February 18, 1796September 10, 1869) was an American politician, attorney, and planter who was a candidate for President of the United States in the election of 1860. Sam Houston and John Bell (Tennessee politician) are American people of Scotch-Irish descent, candidates in the 1860 United States presidential election, members of the United States House of Representatives who owned slaves, Tennessee lawyers and United States senators who owned slaves.

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John C. Calhoun

John Caldwell Calhoun (March 18, 1782March 31, 1850) was an American statesman and political theorist who served as the seventh vice president of the United States from 1825 to 1832. Sam Houston and John C. Calhoun are American people of Scotch-Irish descent, members of the United States House of Representatives who owned slaves and United States senators who owned slaves.

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John Hemphill (senator)

John Hemphill (December 18, 1803 – January 4, 1862) was an American politician and jurist who served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Texas from 1841 to 1846 and of the Supreme Court of Texas until 1858, and a United States senator from Texas from 1859 to 1861. Sam Houston and John Hemphill (senator) are American people of Scotch-Irish descent, people of Texas in the American Civil War and Texas Democrats.

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John Houston (immigrant)

John Houston (1689 or 1690 – 1754) was an Irish-born American planter.

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John Jolly

John Jolly (Cherokee: Ahuludegi; also known as Oolooteka) was a leader of the Cherokee in Tennessee, the Arkansaw district of the Missouri Territory, and Indian Territory (now Oklahoma).

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John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams (July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was an American statesman, politician, diplomat, lawyer, and diarist who served as the sixth president of the United States, from 1825 to 1829.

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John Rhea

John Rhea (pronounced) (c. 1753May 27, 1832) was an American soldier and politician of the early 19th century who represented Tennessee in the United States House of Representatives. Sam Houston and John Rhea are American people of Scotch-Irish descent.

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Johnstone

Johnstone (Johnstoun, Baile Iain) is a town in the administrative area of Renfrewshire and larger historic county of the same name, in the west central Lowlands of Scotland.

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Joseph McMinn

Joseph McMinn (June 22, 1758 – October 17, 1824) was an American politician who served as the fourth Governor of Tennessee from 1815 to 1821. Sam Houston and Joseph McMinn are Democratic-Republican Party state governors of the United States, governors of Tennessee and Tennessee Democratic-Republicans.

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Joshua Houston

Joshua Houston (c. 1822–1902) was born into slavery in about 1822 on the Perry County, Alabama plantation owned by Temple Lea and Nancy Moffette Lea, parents of Margaret Lea Houston.

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Kansas Territory

The Territory of Kansas was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from May 30, 1854, until January 29, 1861, when the eastern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the free state of Kansas.

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Kansas–Nebraska Act

The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 was a territorial organic act that created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska.

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Kickapoo people

The Kickapoo people (Kickapoo: Kiikaapoa or Kiikaapoi; Kikapú) are an Algonquian-speaking Native American and Indigenous Mexican tribe, originating in the region south of the Great Lakes.

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Know Nothing

The Know Nothings were a nativist political movement in the United States in the 1850s, officially known as the Native American Party before 1855, and afterwards simply the American Party.

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List of monuments and memorials to Sam Houston

The following is a partial list of monuments and memorials to Sam Houston, Governor of Tennessee (1827–1829), President of the Republic of Texas (1836–1838 and 1841–1844), and Governor of Texas (1859–1861).

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List of places named for Sam Houston

Sam Houston was an important figure in Texas history.

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List of United States representatives from Tennessee

The following is an alphabetical list of members of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Tennessee. Sam Houston and list of United States representatives from Tennessee are members of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee.

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List of United States senators from Texas

Texas was admitted to the United States on December 29, 1845, and elects its U.S. senators to class 1 and class 2. Sam Houston and List of United States senators from Texas are United States senators from Texas.

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Major general (United States)

In the United States Armed Forces, a major general is a two-star general officer in the United States Army, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Space Force.

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Man of Conquest

Man of Conquest is a 1939 American Western film directed by George Nicholls Jr. and starring Richard Dix, Gail Patrick, and Joan Fontaine.

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Mandate (politics)

In representative democracies, a mandate is a perceived legitimacy to rule through popular support.

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Margaret Lea Houston

Margaret Lea Houston (April 11, 1819 – December 3, 1867) was First Lady of the Republic of Texas during her husband Sam Houston's second term as President of the Republic of Texas. Sam Houston and Margaret Lea Houston are Baptists from Texas.

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Martin Van Buren

Martin Van Buren (Maarten van Buren; December 5, 1782 – July 24, 1862) was an American lawyer, diplomat, and statesman who served as the eighth president of the United States from 1837 to 1841. Sam Houston and Martin Van Buren are United States senators who owned slaves.

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Maryville College

Maryville College is a private liberal arts college in Maryville, Tennessee.

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Maryville, Tennessee

Maryville is a city in and the county seat of Blount County, Tennessee.

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Matthias Ward

Matthias Ward (October 13, 1805 – October 5, 1861) was a lawyer and United States Senator from Texas.

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Mexican Cession

The Mexican Cession (Cesión mexicana) is the region in the modern-day western United States that Mexico previously controlled, then ceded to the United States in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 after the Mexican–American War.

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Mexican Texas

Mexican Texas is the historiographical name used to refer to the era of Texan history between 1821 and 1836, when it was part of Mexico.

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Mexican–American War

The Mexican–American War, also known in the United States as the Mexican War, and in Mexico as the United States intervention in Mexico, was an invasion of Mexico by the United States Army from 1846 to 1848.

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Millard Fillmore

Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800 – March 8, 1874) was the 13th president of the United States, serving from 1850 to 1853, and was the last president to have been a member of the Whig Party while in office.

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Mirabeau B. Lamar

Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar (August 16, 1798 – December 19, 1859) was an American attorney, politician, poet, and leading political figure during the Texas Republic era. Sam Houston and Mirabeau B. Lamar are people of the Texas Revolution and presidents of the Republic of Texas.

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Missouri Compromise

The Missouri Compromise (also known as the Compromise of 1820) was federal legislation of the United States that balanced desires of northern states to prevent the expansion of slavery in the country with those of southern states to expand it.

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Mitt Romney

Willard Mitt Romney (born March 12, 1947) is an American politician, businessman, and lawyer, and the junior United States senator from Utah since 2019.

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Morgan's Riflemen

Morgan's Riflemen or Morgan's Rifles, previously Morgan's Sharpshooters, and the one named Provisional Rifle Corps, were an elite light infantry unit commanded by General Daniel Morgan in the American Revolutionary War, which served a vital role executing his tasks because it had its men equipped rifled muskets instead of smoothbore muskets, allowing for a rifleman to have a longer effective range than that of the average infantryman.

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Muscogee

The Muscogee, also known as the Mvskoke, Muscogee Creek or just Creek, and the Muscogee Creek Confederacy (in the Muscogee language; English), are a group of related Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands Sequoyah Research Center and the American Native Press Archives in the United States.

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Nathaniel Hale Pryor

Nathaniel Hale Pryor (1772–1831) was an American explorer, who served as Sergeant in the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

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National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum

The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum is a museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, with more than 28,000 Western and Native American art works and artifacts.

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National Republican Party

The National Republican Party, also known as the Anti-Jacksonian Party or simply Republicans, was a short-lived political party in the United States that evolved from a conservative-leaning faction of the Democratic-Republican Party that supported John Quincy Adams in the 1824 presidential election.

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National Statuary Hall

The National Statuary Hall is a chamber in the United States Capitol devoted to sculptures of prominent Americans.

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Nativism (politics)

Nativism is the political policy of promoting or protecting the interests of native-born or indigenous inhabitants over those of immigrants, including the support of anti-immigration and immigration-restriction measures.

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Naturalization

Naturalization (or naturalisation) is the legal act or process by which a non-national of a country acquires the nationality of that country after birth.

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Nebraska Territory

The Territory of Nebraska was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from May 30, 1854, until March 1, 1867, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the state of Nebraska.

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New Mexico Territory

The Territory of New Mexico was an organized incorporated territory of the United States from September 9, 1850, until January 6, 1912.

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Norman, Oklahoma

Norman is the 3rd most populous city in the U.S. state of Oklahoma, with a population of 128,026 as of the 2020 census.

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North Carolina

North Carolina is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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Northern United States

The Northern United States, commonly referred to as the American North, the Northern States, or simply the North, is a geographical and historical region of the United States.

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Old Southwest

The "Old Southwest" is an informal name for the southwestern frontier territories of the United States from the American Revolutionary War, through the early 1800s, at which point the US had acquired the Louisiana Territory, pushing the southwestern frontier toward what is today known as the Southwest.

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Oregon Bill of 1848

The Oregon Bill of 1848, officially titled when approved, "An Act to Establish the Territorial Government of Oregon," was an act of Congress to turn Oregon into an official U.S. Territory.

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Oregon Country

Oregon Country was a large region of the Pacific Northwest of North America that was subject to a long dispute between the United Kingdom and the United States in the early 19th century.

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Oregon Territory

The Territory of Oregon was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from August 14, 1848, until February 14, 1859, when the southwestern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Oregon.

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Oregon Treaty

The Oregon Treaty is a treaty between the United Kingdom and the United States that was signed on June 15, 1846, in Washington, D.C. The treaty brought an end to the Oregon boundary dispute by settling competing American and British claims to the Oregon Country; the area had been jointly occupied by both Britain and the U.S.

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Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.

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Presbyterianism

Presbyterianism is a Reformed (Calvinist) Protestant tradition named for its form of church government by representative assemblies of elders.

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Presidency of John Tyler

The presidency of John Tyler began on April 4, 1841, when John Tyler became President of the United States upon the death of President William Henry Harrison, and ended on March 4, 1845.

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President of the Republic of Texas

The president of the Republic of Texas (Presidente de la República de Tejas) was the head of state and head of government while Texas was an independent republic between 1836 and 1845. Sam Houston and president of the Republic of Texas are presidents of the Republic of Texas.

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Radical politics

Radical politics denotes the intent to transform or replace the principles of a society or political system, often through social change, structural change, revolution or radical reform.

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Republic of Texas

The Republic of Texas (República de Tejas), or simply Texas, was a breakaway state in North America that existed from March 2, 1836, to February 19, 1846.

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Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also known as the GOP (Grand Old Party), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

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Rio Grande

The Rio Grande in the United States or the Río Bravo (del Norte) in Mexico, also known as P’osoge in Tewa and Tó Ba’áadi in Navajo, is one of the principal rivers (along with the Colorado River) in the southwestern United States and in northern Mexico.

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Rockbridge County, Virginia

Rockbridge County is a county in the Shenandoah Valley on the western edge of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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Rufus Columbus Burleson

Rufus Columbus Burleson (August 7, 1823 – May 14, 1901) was the president of Baylor University in Waco, Texas, from 1851 to 1861 and again from 1886 to 1897. Sam Houston and Rufus Columbus Burleson are Baptists from Tennessee and Baptists from Texas.

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Runaway Scrape

The Runaway Scrape events took place mainly between September 1835 and April 1836 and were the evacuations by Texas residents fleeing the Mexican Army of Operations during the Texas Revolution, from the Battle of the Alamo through the decisive Battle of San Jacinto.

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Sabine Pass, Port Arthur, Texas

Sabine Pass is a neighborhood in Port Arthur, Texas.

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Sam Houston and slavery

Sam Houston was a slaveholder who had a complicated history with the institution of slavery.

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Sam Houston Jr.

Sam Houston Jr. (May 25, 1843–1894) was the oldest of eight children born to Sam Houston and Margaret Lea Houston, and was the only Houston child born in the Republic of Texas, before its December 29, 1845 annexation to the United States. Sam Houston and Sam Houston Jr. are people of Texas in the American Civil War.

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Sam Houston Monument

The Sam Houston Monument is an outdoor bronze sculpture of Sam Houston by Enrico Cerracchio, installed at the northwest corner of Houston's Hermann Park, in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Sam Houston National Forest

The Sam Houston National Forest, one of four National Forests in Texas, is located 50 miles north of Houston.

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Samuel Rhoads Fisher

Samuel Rhoads Fisher was the secretary of the Navy of the Republic of Texas. Sam Houston and Samuel Rhoads Fisher are American emigrants to Mexico, people of the Texas Revolution and signers of the Texas Declaration of Independence.

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San Augustine, Texas

San Augustine is the county seat city of San Augustine County, Texas, in East Texas, United States.

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Scotland

Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Secession

Secession is the formal withdrawal of a group from a political entity.

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Second lieutenant

Second lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer military rank in many armed forces.

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Siege of the Alamo

The siege of the Alamo (February 23 – March 6, 1836) was the first thirteen days of the Battle of the Alamo.

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Slave states and free states

In the United States before 1865, a slave state was a state in which slavery and the internal or domestic slave trade were legal, while a free state was one in which they were prohibited.

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Slavery in the United States

The legal institution of human chattel slavery, comprising the enslavement primarily of Africans and African Americans, was prevalent in the United States of America from its founding in 1776 until 1865, predominantly in the South.

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Southern United States

The Southern United States, sometimes Dixie, also referred to as the Southern States, the American South, the Southland, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a geographic and cultural region of the United States.

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State of Franklin

The State of Franklin (also the Free Republic of Franklin, Lost State of Franklin, or the State of Frankland) was an unrecognized proposed state located in present-day East Tennessee, in the United States.

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Steamboat House (Huntsville, Texas)

Steamboat House is located at Sam Houston State University, in the city of Huntsville, county of Walker, in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Stephen A. Douglas

Stephen Arnold Douglas (April 23, 1813 – June 3, 1861) was an American politician and lawyer from Illinois. Sam Houston and Stephen A. Douglas are candidates in the 1860 United States presidential election.

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Stephen F. Austin

Stephen Fuller Austin (November 3, 1793 – December 27, 1836) was an American-born empresario. Sam Houston and Stephen F. Austin are 1793 births, American emigrants to Mexico, people of the Texas Revolution and Texas Consultation delegates.

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Sterne–Hoya House Museum and Library

The Sterne–Hoya House Museum and Library is located at 211 S. Lanana, in the city and county of Nacogdoches, in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Surrender of Santa Anna

Surrender of Santa Anna is an 1886 painting by William Henry Huddle, displayed at the Texas State Capitol in Austin, Texas, United States.

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Temple Lea Houston

Temple Lea Houston (August 12, 1860 – August 15, 1905) was an American attorney and politician who served from 1885 to 1889 in the Texas State Senate.

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Tennessee

Tennessee, officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Tennessee's 7th congressional district

The 7th congressional district of Tennessee is a congressional district located in parts of Middle and West Tennessee.

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Texan Santa Fe Expedition

The Texan Santa Fe Expedition was a failed commercial and military expedition in 1841 by the Republic of Texas with the objective of competing with the lucrative trade conducted over the Santa Fe Trail and the ulterior motive of annexing to Texas the eastern one-half of New Mexico, then a province of Mexico.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States.

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Texas annexation

The Republic of Texas was annexed into the United States and admitted to the Union as the 28th state on December 29, 1845.

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Texas Declaration of Independence

The Texas Declaration of Independence was the formal declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico in the Texas Revolution.

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Texas in the American Civil War

Texas declared its secession from the Union on February 1, 1861, and joined the Confederate States on March 2, 1861, after it had replaced its governor, Sam Houston, who had refused to take an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy.

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Texas Revolution

The Texas Revolution (October 2, 1835 – April 21, 1836) was a rebellion of colonists from the United States and Tejanos (Hispanic Texans) against the centralist government of Mexico in the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas.

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Texas Rising

Texas Rising is a 2015 History Channel five-part television miniseries based on the Texas Revolution against Mexico and how the Texas Rangers were created.

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Texian Army

The Texian Army, also known as the Revolutionary Army and Army of the People, was the land warfare branch of the Texian armed forces during the Texas Revolution.

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The Alamo (1960 film)

The Alamo is a 1960 American epic historical war film about the 1836 Siege and Battle of the Alamo produced and directed by John Wayne and starring Wayne as Davy Crockett.

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The Eagle and the Raven

The Eagle and the Raven is a 1990 book written by author James Michener, published by State House Press of Austin, Texas.

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Thomas Hart Benton (politician)

Thomas Hart Benton (March 14, 1782April 10, 1858), nicknamed "Old Bullion", was an American politician, attorney, soldier, and longtime United States Senator from Missouri. Sam Houston and Thomas Hart Benton (politician) are United States senators who owned slaves.

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Thomas Jefferson Rusk

Thomas Jefferson Rusk (December 5, 1803July 29, 1857) was an early political and military leader of the Republic of Texas, serving as its first Secretary of War as well as a general at the Battle of San Jacinto. Sam Houston and Thomas Jefferson Rusk are army of the Republic of Texas generals, people of the Texas Revolution, signers of the Texas Declaration of Independence, Texas Democrats and United States senators who owned slaves.

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Treaties of Velasco

The Treaties of Velasco were two documents, one private and the other public, signed in Fort Velasco on May 14, 1836 between General Antonio López de Santa Anna and the Republic of Texas in the aftermath of the Battle of San Jacinto on April 21, 1836.

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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo officially ended the Mexican–American War (1846–1848).

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Trinity Bay (Texas)

Trinity Bay is the northeast portion of Galveston Bay, bordered by Chambers and Harris counties in Texas, United States.

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U.S. territorial sovereignty

In the United States, a territory is any extent of region under the sovereign jurisdiction of the federal government of the United States, including all waters (around islands or continental tracts).

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Ulster Scots people

The Ulster Scots people are an ethnic group descended largely from Scottish and English settlers who moved to the north of Ireland during the 17th century.

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Union (American Civil War)

The Union, colloquially known as the North, refers to the states that remained loyal to the United States after eleven Southern slave states seceded to form the Confederate States of America (CSA), also known as the Confederacy or South, during the American Civil War.

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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was a sovereign state in Northwestern Europe that was established by the union in 1801 of the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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United States House of Representatives

The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber.

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United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress.

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University of North Texas Press

The University of North Texas Press (or UNT Press), founded in 1987, is a university press that is part of the University of North Texas.

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University of Oklahoma Press

The University of Oklahoma Press (OU Press) is the publishing arm of the University of Oklahoma.

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University of Texas Press

The University of Texas Press (or UT Press) is a university press that is part of the University of Texas at Austin.

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USS Sam Houston (SSBN-609)

USS Sam Houston (SSBN-609/SSN-609), an, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named after Sam Houston (1793–1863), president of the Republic of Texas (1836–1838, 1841–1844).

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Utah Territory

The Territory of Utah was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from September 9, 1850, until January 4, 1896, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Utah, the 45th state.

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Valentín Gómez Farías

Valentín Gómez Farías (14 February 1781 – 5 July 1858) was a Mexican physician and liberal politician who became president of Mexico twice, first from 1833 to 1834, during the period of the First Mexican Republic, and again from 1846 to 1847, during the Mexican–American War.

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Virgil

Publius Vergilius Maro (traditional dates 15 October 70 BC21 September 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period.

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Virginia

Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.

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War of 1812

The War of 1812 was fought by the United States and its allies against the United Kingdom and its allies in North America.

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Whig Party (United States)

The Whig Party was a political party that existed in the United States during the mid-19th century.

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Will Rogers

William Penn Adair Rogers (November 4, 1879 – August 15, 1935) was an American vaudeville performer, actor, and humorous social commentator.

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William B. Travis

William Barret "Buck" Travis (August 1, 1809 – March 6, 1836) was a 19th-century American lawyer and soldier. He is known for helping set the Texas Revolution in motion during the Anahuac disturbances and commanding the Misión San Antonio de Valero (aka "The Alamo") as a lieutenant colonel in the Texian Army. Sam Houston and William B. Travis are people of the Texas Revolution and Texas Consultation delegates.

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William Carroll (Tennessee politician)

William Carroll (March 3, 1788March 22, 1844) was an American politician who served as the fifth Governor of Tennessee twice, from 1821 to 1827 and again from 1829 to 1835. Sam Houston and William Carroll (Tennessee politician) are Democratic-Republican Party state governors of the United States, people of the Creek War and Tennessee Democratic-Republicans.

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William H. Wharton

William Harris Wharton (April 27, 1802 – March 14, 1839) was an American colonist, diplomat, senator and statesman in early Texas. Sam Houston and William H. Wharton are people of the Texas Revolution and Texas Consultation delegates.

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William Hall (governor)

William Hall (February 11, 1775October 7, 1856) was an American politician who served as the seventh Governor of the state of Tennessee from April to October 1829. Sam Houston and William Hall (governor) are people of the Creek War.

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William Henry Huddle

William Henry Huddle (1847–1892) was an American painter famous for his portrait of Davy Crockett that hangs in the Texas State Capitol and his depiction of the surrender of Antonio López de Santa Anna.

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William Stanbery

William Stanbery (August 10, 1788 – January 23, 1873) was an American attorney and politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1827 to 1833.

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William W. Bibb

William Wyatt Bibb (October 2, 1781 – July 10, 1820) was a United States Senator from Georgia, the first governor of the Alabama Territory, and the first Governor of the U.S. state of Alabama. Sam Houston and William W. Bibb are Democratic-Republican Party state governors of the United States and United States senators who owned slaves.

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Zachary Taylor

Zachary Taylor (November 24, 1784 – July 9, 1850) was an American military leader who served as the 12th president of the United States from 1849 until his death in 1850. Sam Houston and Zachary Taylor are United States Army personnel of the War of 1812.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Houston

Also known as Eliza Allan Houston, Eliza Allen Houston, General Sam Houston, Houston, Sam, 1793-1863, Sam H., Sam Huston, Sammy Houston, Samuel Houston, The Raven (statesman).

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