It was finally settled by an act of Congress on February 28, 1855, which appropriated $7.75 million in cash to be prorated among the holders of the revenue debt. The revenue debt was interpreted by the federal government to include all the bond items and the paper money (see MONEY OF THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS).

How was Sam Houston able to solve the problem of the unrest in the Texas army after the Texas Revolution? Houston reduced the size of the army by sending the soldiers on leave.

Defending the New Nation Anyone who left Texas or refused to serve, and anyone who sided with Mexico, gave up their right to land or citizenship in the republic. The Texas Revolution ended quickly — in victory. By April 21, 1836, Houston’s army defeated the Mexicans and captured Santa Anna at San Jacinto.

What problems were faced by the republic of Texas? Mexican government refused to give them independence.

Why did the Republic of Texas present a potential problem to the other U.S. states? It worried Protestant Americans who were concerned about the inclusion of a large population of Catholics. It resulted in defeat for those seeking Texas independence.

Americans of European extraction and slaves contributed greatly to the population growth in the Republic and State of Texas. Settlements grew and developed more land under cultivation in cotton and other commodities. The cotton industry flourished in East Texas, where enslaved labor became most widely used.

Texas was the last frontier of chattel slavery in the United States. In the fewer than fifty years between 1821 and 1865, the “Peculiar Institution,” as Southerners called it, spread over the eastern two-fifths of the state, an area nearly as large as Alabama and Mississippi combined.

Most enslaved people in Texas were brought by white families from the southern United States. Some enslaved people came through the domestic slave trade, which was centered in New Orleans. A smaller number of enslaved people were brought via the international slave trade, though this had been illegal since 1806.

By the time of annexation a decade later, there were 30,000; by 1860, the census found 182,566 slaves — over 30% of the total population of the state. Most slaves came to Texas with their owners, and the vast majority lived on large cotton plantations in East Texas.

3 by Union Army general Gordon Granger, proclaiming freedom for slaves in Texas, which was the last state of the Confederacy with institutional slavery….

Texas joined the Confederacy for exactly the same reason that it had previously seceded from Mexico: because the people who had the most political influence in the state were slaveowners, and they wanted to make sure that they could keep their slaves.