Texas Revolution

2. RUNAWAY SCRAPE – The mass flight of Texan civilians fleeing eastward away from Santa Anna's advancing forces.
3. INDEPENDENCE – What the delegates at Washington-on-the-Brazos formally declared from Mexico on March 2, 1836.
4. SAN ANTONIO – The historic Texas city where the siege of the Alamo took place.
5. SAN JACINTO – The decisive battleground where General Sam Houston's army defeated the Mexican forces in just 18 minutes.
6. MANIFEST DESTINY – The 19th-century belief that the United States was divinely ordained to expand across the North American continent.

1. ALAMO – The former Spanish mission in San Antonio where a small band of Texans held out for 13 days against the Mexican army.
2. TREATY OF VELASCO – The document signed by captured Mexican General Santa Anna that effectively granted Texas its freedom.
3. GOLIAD MASSACRE – The tragic March 1836 execution of several hundred captured Texan soldiers under the orders of General Santa Anna.
4. CONSTITUTION – A fundamental legal document that outlines the structure, powers, and limits of a government.
5. CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION – The formal assembly where Texas delegates gathered in 1836 to draft their new framework of government.