Chapter 12: A New Nation

Section 4: Houston’s Second Administration

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What were some differences

between Houston & Lamar?

Houston Returns to OfficeElection of 1841

Sam Houston David G. Burnet

vs.

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President

Sam Houston

Vice President

Edward Burleson

Houston Returns to Office•Hoped to achieve a balanced

budget

•Efforts to save money:

–Cut government jobs & salaries

–Cut size of army, navy, & Texas Rangers

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• Government spending drops $4.8 million to $500,000

• Houston could not balance budget

•Balanced Budget—government spending does not exceed revenue

• Debt reaches $12 million by 1845

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• Had new paper money printed to replace red backs

• Limited amount issued

• Value fell quickly

Republic of Texas Currency

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• Reestablishes peaceful Indian policy

• Established frontier trading posts

• Signed peace treaties

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• March 1843: Nine Indian groups, including Caddo, Tawakoni, and Waco, meet with Texas officials at Tehuacana Creek

• Agree to stop fighting

• Plan a peace council to be held in September at Ft. Bird

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•Texas officials and nine Indian tribes sign a treaty

•Comanche not present

•Angry about Council House Fight

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•Tehuacana Creek—peace and trade agreement signed in 1844 by Sam Houston and Comanche chief Buffalo Hump

•Did not establish boundaries, tensions later resurface

•Peace returned to frontier

Regulator-Moderator War

•Regulator-Moderator War: involved settlers in East Texas

•Redlands—borders old Neutral Ground

•Weak law enforcement in area

Regulator-Moderator War

•Regulator Moderator War—feud between two groups in East Texas that began over fake land certificates and erupted into violence

• Alfred George vs. Joseph G. Goodbread

Regulator-Moderator War

• George persuades Charles W. Jackson to kill Goodbread

• Jackson organizes “Moderators” to “fight crime”

• Goodbread’s supporters form “Regulators”

Regulator-Moderator War

• Feud ensues

• Local officials unable to stop feud

• Each side numbered in the hundreds

• August 1844: President Houston sends troops to end feud