Mexico & Spain
What country sold Louisiana to the United States in 1803?
What is France?
Who gave the Grito de Dolores in 1810?
Who is Miguel Hidalgo?
What were filibusters trying to create in Texas?
What is an independent Texas?
What was an empresario?
What is a land agent responsible for bringing settlers to Texas?
What was a two-room house with an open passage between the rooms called?
What is a dogtrot?
What river became the disputed border between Louisiana and Texas?
What is the Sabine River?
What did the Grito de Dolores call for?
What is equality and independence/revolt against Spanish rule?
What is an independent Texas?
Who is Dr. James Long?
Who is known as the "Father of Texas"?
Who is Stephen F. Austin?
What was the staple crop grown by many Texans?
What is corn?
What agreement created a neutral area where neither U.S. nor Spanish troops could occupy the land?
What is the Neutral Ground Agreement?
What year did Mexico gain its independence from Spain?
What is 1821?
What battle in 1813 resulted in Spanish forces killing more than 1,000 filibusters?
What is the Battle of Medina?
How many families did Stephen F. Austin originally receive permission to settle?
What is 300 families?
What crop became an important cash crop and contributed to the expansion of slavery?
What is cotton?
What treaty established the border between Texas and Louisiana and recognized Texas as Spanish territory?
What is the Adams-Onis Treaty?
What treaty officially recognized Mexican independence?
What is the Treaty of Cordoba?
Who was the pirate James Long asked for help?
Who is Jean Lafitte?
What was the purpose of the Mexican colonization laws?
What is to encourage settlement in Texas and establish a stronger Mexican presence?
What did settlers write on overdue accounts when they left for Texas?
What is G.T.T., "Gone to Texas"?
Why was Spain having difficulty maintaining control over New Spain?
What is Spain was far away, its government was ineffective, and Napoleon had overthrown the Spanish king?
Name the three guarantees of the Plan of Iguala.
What are a constitutional monarchy, equality between Peninsulares and Criollos, and Catholicism?
What happened to James Long after he was captured?
What is he was later shot and killed?
What colony did Haden Edwards establish after the Mexican government canceled his contract?
What is the Republic of Fredonia?
Who was a successful African American businessman, blacksmith, innkeeper, and landowner in early Texas?
Who is William Goyens?