Terms Chapter 7

First elected president

Mirabeau Lamar

Homestead Law

Mier expedition

John C. Calhoun

James Polk

U.S. Congress resolution 1845 (Annexation Resolution)

What type of governmental system did the Republic of Texas develop? What role did Sam Houston play in the Republic? Compare Houston's administrations to Lamar's. It is called a republic but are all people in Texas accorded the same rights of representation?