Davy Crockett Research Paper
Anahuac MIddle School
Life of Davy crockett
Henry Sheffield
Rasbeary-7th
Henry Sheffield
Anahuac Middle School
Life of Davy Crockett
Rasbeary-7th
Davy crockett was born in 1786 in Tennessee. His family was moving west to different settlements. In 1813 following a massacre in a fort in alabama Crockett was enlisted in the tennessee militia to help fight in the massacre in north alabama in killing many natives in the town. Later in his life he joined in another enlistment to go to New Orleans but discharged again and went home for better of himself. Crockett was also a natural leader he advanced from justice also in 1827-1829 he was elected to congress as a democrat but then he broke with jackson but was soon defeated in 1831 and …show more content…
in 1833 he returned to congress this time a whig. Lastly in 1835 he was defeated again and his famous quote was ¨You can all go to hell and I am going to Texas¨. As crockett left he went to the alamo to go join the fight against Mexico. Davy was also known as the frontier man he always was a famous man ¨sort of¨. Whether or not he died at the alamo he still was a very great man he did a lot of good things and a lot of bad things.
Crockett also left home when he was only 13 years of age.
As he was gone into the forest he was a hat maker and some other things such as a farmhand of teamster. A teamster is a person who drives cattle as he did that he was trying to keep away from school and his dad. He was also a veteran of the creek war and the war of 1812. Some of the time he would also hunt bears for fun and that was one why how he got famous. Crockett also did this for oil, meat, and for money that he can get his own land and his own general store. Some people made a play about him and the basically made him legendary by imitating him. Crockett also helped by making an assassination attempt fail on andrew Jackson. After he was in Texas he was there for only three months before he died at the Alamo to fight for texas from mexico. But as crockett was in the alamo he may have been the last person standing against Santa Anna and his army of one thousand eight hundred. He died as a great man he was a congressman and he did not always do bad things he was a frontier man and a legendary man. He did not want to die but he had to for texas. Since he was a legend he got a lot of praise as the frontier man. As crockett's death was a mystery Pena had a diary which was most likely the most truthful it said that he was surrounded by a lot of mexican soldiers so he got captured by santa anna and immediately got executed. Crockett's death will never be lost as he fought for a purpose and did not die in
vain. Reference page:
History.com
Biography Texas A&M university
McGraw hill texas history
Life of Davy crockett
Henry Sheffield
Rasbeary-7th
Henry Sheffield
Anahuac Middle School
Life of Davy Crockett
Rasbeary-7th
Davy crockett was born in 1786 in Tennessee. His family was moving west to different settlements. In 1813 following a massacre in a fort in alabama Crockett was enlisted in the tennessee militia to help fight in the massacre in north alabama in killing many natives in the town. Later in his life he joined in another enlistment to go to New Orleans but discharged again and went home for better of himself. Crockett was also a natural leader he advanced from justice also in 1827-1829 he was elected to congress as a democrat but then he broke with jackson but was soon defeated in 1831 and …show more content…
in 1833 he returned to congress this time a whig. Lastly in 1835 he was defeated again and his famous quote was ¨You can all go to hell and I am going to Texas¨. As crockett left he went to the alamo to go join the fight against Mexico. Davy was also known as the frontier man he always was a famous man ¨sort of¨. Whether or not he died at the alamo he still was a very great man he did a lot of good things and a lot of bad things.
Crockett also left home when he was only 13 years of age.
As he was gone into the forest he was a hat maker and some other things such as a farmhand of teamster. A teamster is a person who drives cattle as he did that he was trying to keep away from school and his dad. He was also a veteran of the creek war and the war of 1812. Some of the time he would also hunt bears for fun and that was one why how he got famous. Crockett also did this for oil, meat, and for money that he can get his own land and his own general store. Some people made a play about him and the basically made him legendary by imitating him. Crockett also helped by making an assassination attempt fail on andrew Jackson. After he was in Texas he was there for only three months before he died at the Alamo to fight for texas from mexico. But as crockett was in the alamo he may have been the last person standing against Santa Anna and his army of one thousand eight hundred. He died as a great man he was a congressman and he did not always do bad things he was a frontier man and a legendary man. He did not want to die but he had to for texas. Since he was a legend he got a lot of praise as the frontier man. As crockett's death was a mystery Pena had a diary which was most likely the most truthful it said that he was surrounded by a lot of mexican soldiers so he got captured by santa anna and immediately got executed. Crockett's death will never be lost as he fought for a purpose and did not die in
vain. Reference page:
History.com
Biography Texas A&M university
McGraw hill texas history