HIST 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Anson Jones, Critical Thinking, Feedback
23 Oct 2016
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Identify indians, african americans, anglos, tejanos, and mexicans. Focal points: how to think about history and the upcoming quiz. Put yourself in a position to ask questions and find the best answers about the past. Think about patterns and connections- history is like math. Think about more than one answer, about what we can never fully know. Attempts to gain immediate annexation to the u. s. Texans voted 97% for annexation to the us in 1836. They did not want to be an independent republic but wanted to be a part of the u. s because there is more security and chance of economic growth. Interest of both political parties (democrats and wigs) to downplay and bury slavery and not talk about it as a part of a campaign. If you came out in favor of slavery, you lost the north. If you came out against expansion, you lost the. Texas was seen by people who understood as wedded to slavery.
