SAM HOUSTON: REVOLUTIONARY, GENERAL, LEADER, POLITICAL FIGURE

SAM HOUSTON

• 1793-1863
• Popular figure
• Many roles
• Overall was beneficial for independent Texas
• Great leader (Political and War)

EARLY LIFE

• Middle class group of farmers
• Lived with Cherokees for 3 years
• Friends with Andrew Jackson
• Governor of Tennessee 1828-1829
• Moved to Texas 1832

REVOLUTIONARY

• One of leaders of Texas Revolutionary Army
• Head of Nacogdoches militia
• Wanted Texas independence
• Strong will, determined, enthusiastic
• Promoted

GENERAL

• Became general of Texas forces
• Control after fall of Alamo and Goliad
• Commanded Battle of San Jacinto, won independence
• Accepted Santa Anna's surrender
• Put great work into developing Texas

LEADER

• Leader of Texas
• First president of Republic of Texas 1836
• President again 1841
• Strongly supported statehood 1845
• Peaceful solutions

POLITICAL FIGURE

• Senator for three terms in statehood
• Became governor of Texas
• Discharged from governor office
• Didn't want to secede, refused to join Confederacy
• Died in Huntsville, Texas

1. Why did Sam Houston sympathize with the Cherokees?
A. When he was a baby, they saved him for drowning in a river.
B. He lived with the Cherokees for three years and understood their ways of life.
C. He needed them to find gold for him.
D. He was afraid that they would attack him.

2. What do you think made Sam Houston so strongly opposed to Texas secession.
A. He had put a great amount of effort into getting Texas to join the USA and he didn't want to see his work wasted.
B. He was a strong supporter of the Union and wanted to stay in it.
C. He loved Texas and didn't want it to be destroyed because it had seceded.
D. All of the above.