Texas Regions
Which region of Texas do we live in?
Coastal Plains
This group built large earthen mounds in East Texas called wigwams.
Caddo
What motivated Europeans to explore the Americas?
To gain riches, claim land, and spread Christianity
True or False: French explorers were successful at colonizing Texas.
False
How did Texas’s regions affect how tribes lived?
Tribes adapted their food, shelter, and clothing to their environment
This river forms the border between Texas and Oklahoma.
Red River
This group lived in adobe homes in southwestern Texas and farmed corn, beans, and squash.
Jumano or Tigua
Who was shipwrecked near Galveston and helped Indigenous people with medicine?
Cabeza de Vaca
Name the three main reasons Europeans explored the New World.
God Gold and Glory
Spanish explorers who set out to conquer lands and people were known as this.
Conquistadors
Name all four regions of Texas.
Coastal Plains · North Central Plains · Great Plains · Mountains and Basins
This Gulf Coast group were nomadic hunters, fishers, and gatherers, and made Rockport ware pottery.
Karankawa
Who was the French explorer who tried to start a colony near the Gulf but failed?
La Salle
What was Coronado searching for when he began his expedition?
The Seven Cities of Cibola — the cities of gold
Cabeza de Vaca's journal is a ______ source. Your textbook is a ______ source.
Primary; secondary
What is an escarpment, and name one in Texas.
A long, steep slope at the edge of a plateau. Balcones or Caprock.
Name the four culture areas of Texas Native Americans.Karankawa
Gulf · Plains · Puebloan · Southeastern
This Spanish explorer lived among the Karankawa, and his arrival began the Age of Contact in Texas.
Cabeza de Vaca
Name two negative effects of the Columbian Exchange.
Disease spreading from Europe to the Americas, and crops and animals damaging ecosystems by crowding out native species
Coronado came to the americas to find what?
Cities of Gold or Cities of Cibola
The Rio Grande located in the ______ side of texas opposite the _____ of_________
West, Gulf of Mexico
The Caddo and the Jumano both farmed. Name one major difference in how they lived.
Caddo lived in grass houses in the East Texas Piney Woods and built wigwams; Jumano lived in adobe homes in the West Texas desert. Land shaped the housing.
Give two reasons Cabeza de Vaca is called the first historian of Texas.
His writings describe Native American groups (Karankawa, Caddo, Atakapan, Jumano), and they describe the problems explorers faced in the New World
What was the Columbian Exchange, and name one Negative effect?
The spread of Disease and Animals arming the ecosystem
Explain how the land a Native American group lived on shaped the way they lived. Use two groups.
Judges call