TX History 2
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- Santa Anna
- President of Mexico
- infantry
- foot soldiers
- Battle of San Jacinto
- Final battle of Texas Revolution in which Sam Houston and the Texas Army surprised the Mexico army and defeated them.
- Battle of Gonzales
- Brief battle between Texas and the Mexico Army in 1885 at Gonzales which started the Texas Revolution
- Deaf Smith
- scout
- Legislative branch
- branch of goverment that makes laws
- executive branch
- Branch of goverment that enforces or carries out the law
- Zachery Taylor
- general
- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
- Treaty signed by U.S. and Mexico On Feb. 2,1848
- Telegraphs
- electronic device to communicate over long distances by sendiny coded messages
- Cotton Belt
- Regions of the southern U.S. in which the majority of the nation's cotton crop was grown
- planters
- large scale farmer who held at least 20 slaves
- Tanneries
- Businesses built for preparing animal hides
- grist mills
- machines used for grinding grain into flour