What Are Some Of The Challenges Sam Houston Faced

Sam Houston was and still is a very big part of Texas, he accomplished many things that up to this day we still study and talk about. For example, one of his major accomplishments was gaining Texas independence from Mexico in 1836. Although it was a huge success it also came with a serious of challenges. Not only did he had to think about those challenges, but the Texans had to fight with a grieving heart. Many of the Texans lost family and friends in previous battles where general Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna showed no mercy and massacred thousands of Texans. Sam Houston facing this challenge found a way to resolve it, gaining Texas its independence. Sam Houston faced many challenges, but always found a way to overcame them.

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The Indians let Houston know that they were not being treated right by their agents and Houston was to act as a representor for the Indians. To resolve this problem Houston became a Cherokee Indian citizen and helped improve the Cherokee condition. As Houston made his was back and forth fixing the Indian problems he contracted malaria and was sick for a while. His work would finally pay off when, “Jackson fired the Osage, Creek and Cherokee agents” (Campbell, p.31). Houston shortly after built a log house and married an Indian women named Tiana under Cherokee rules and opened a trader’s post. While living with the Cherokee Indians Houston was known as, “Osage name meaning Big Drunk” (Campbell, p.33). Due to his excessive amount of drinking it was speculated that Houston drank up to ten barrels of liquor all by himself. As a result of Houston’s drinking problem he was defeated when he ran for Cherokee council. Furious to have lost he went and argued with his adoptive Cherokee father and while being intoxicated stroke him. Houston at this time had reached pitch bottom and returned back home to Nashville where he was sent to

Something Houston worked so hard for. A challenge that Houston alone could not fix, the people of Texas according to Houston was lost. Houston tried to keep Texas a part of the union, but unfortunately differences between the northern and southern states on slavery were gradually increasing. Houston at the time was sixty-six years old and elected governor. During his last few years as governor he gave speeches and tried to convince the Texans of not seceding. Houston stated, “When Texas joined the United states she entered not into the north, nor into the south but into the union” (Campbell, p.179). Houston was firm on the belief that Texas should remain loyal to the union and remained calm hoping that the people would do the right thing. Unfortunately, at the convention Houston saw as one hundred and sixty-six votes favored the secession. Houston now a sixty-eight years old man left with an emotionless face out of the convention and, “The flag of the confederacy flew over the capitol as Houston left Austin” (Campbell, p.194). Soon after that Texas was involved in the civil war, a war Houston hoped to never see. His son went to battle and his health deteriorated and on July 26 Houston died of