Why Is Sam Houston Important

Sam Houston is considered by most to be the real father of Texas. What did he do for Texas? Who is he? Why so important? This article will answer all of those questions and more. In his early life young Sam Houston was quite the troublemaker in fact, he ran away from home at a very young age! Houston’s father died at the age of thirteen and soon after Houston would run away from home to go live with the Cherokee Indians. The chief became Houston’s adopted father and he was given the Cherokee name Co-lo-neh or The Raven. When Houston was 21 and was going off into the military to help serve his country his mother gave him a ring that said Honor on it, this ring made Sam Houston decided to make his mother proud no matter what the cost. When Houston is in the military, he will be wounded multiple times. Once in the leg at San Jacinto as Antonia Lopez de Santa Anna was defeated and forced to surrender. At first when Santa Anna was defeated they didn’t know they had him in their custody as he was posing as a regular soldier to try to make it out with his life. It wasn’t until later in a Texan prison that they found out because the prisoners started yelling el presidente giving it away in a …show more content…
Throughout his election he constantly pushed the idea of annexation into the U.S and the people began to cherish this idea, as the hope of annexation grew Sam Houston decided to present it to congress. Sadly at first they refused the proposal. A lot of Americans were heavily against texas annexation because of the amount of slavery we had going on in the state. Another factor that may have deterred them from annexing the state was it’s unreal debt that had been growing and not stopping it would not be until Sam Houston’s second term he would begin to do anything about the debt. When Sam’s first term was up Lamar the next president drastically increased the debt leaving Sam Houston with a heavy project to work