Vocabulary Words
Friar
He wanted to look for a new trade route to Asia because he wanted to avoid the Ottomans who demanded high fees.
Christopher Columbus
Coronado sent word home to the Spanish King that Texas was only good for farming. Name the region of Texas that was home to millions of Buffalo, Native Americans, has the most oil, and one of its subregions is the High Plains that is known for farming.
The Great Plains
This Native tribe grew corn and had a social system based on differences in status or rank.
The Caddo
This founder of Nacogdoches rejected Marques de Rubi's orders who proposed closing all missions in Texas except in San Antonio and Goliad, and recommended all settlers in East Texas be moved to San Antonio.
Mission
On the ruins of Tenochtitlan, Hernan Cortes, along with the Spanish, built this new city.
=Mexico
This region of Texas is in the middle of Texas and was covered by ocean millions of years ago.
Edwards Plateau
This Native tribe were nomadic, traveled by Canoe, and shared a common language.
The Karankawa
After the United States declared its independence from Great Britain in 1776, Spain opened the port of New Orleans to help American troops. Once the war was over and America gained all British lands in America, Spain reacquired this state.
Florida
A military post or guarded settlement in an area under Spanish control
Presidio
This person was the first to map the Texas coast and document the Mississippi River.
Alonso Alvarez de Pineda
This mountain is the highest in Texas and is located in the Llano Estacado.
Guadalupe Peak
The Comanche were fierce fighters and the Kiowa were known for trading horses, although the Apache were the first to use horses after the Spanish arrived. Something that these tribes have in common is that they shared this food source.
Buffalo
This treaty settled a land dispute between the United States and Spain after the Louisiana Purchase, and gave Florida to the United States.
Adams-Onis Treaty
Used their superior technology and weapons to establish an empire.
Conquistador
Panfilo de Narvaez and this conquistador survived a hurricane and were helped by the Karankawa who lived along the coast.
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
Texas's most valuable resource.
Soil
This Native American group lived near present day El Paso, and fled New Mexico with Spanish colonist escaping the Pueblo Revolt.
Tigua
After Father Miguel Hidalgo's grito de Dolores, this started the Mexican War of Independence from Spain. This inspired Jose Bernardo Gutierrez de Lara to recruit supplies and soldiers, like Augustus Magee. The Gutierrez-Magee Expeditions army was called The Republican Army of the North. The Republican Army of the North was defeated at this battle.
The Battle of Medina
Spanish official appointed to rule land claimed by Spain in the New World. For example the Spanish monarchy.
Viceroy
Cabeza de Vacas journey through Texas began this era that inspired others such as Franciso Vasquez de Coronado to look for Cibola, The Seven Cities of Gold.
The Age of Contact
Mexican native Martin De Leon who was famous for cattle ranching, started a colony that was the only Texas colony settled by mainly Mexican families. This river runs through many different regions of Texas and forms the border with Mexico
The Rio Grande
This historical era represents the Native Americans who lived in Texas from prehistoric time until the arrival of Europeans in 1528.
Natural Texas and its People
The State Colonization Law of 1825 increased the states population by attracting settlers and allowed Stephen F. Austin to develop his first colony, San Felipe de Austin, where they had plentiful wood and access to water. However, this law limited immigrants entering Texas and caused Green DeWitt's colony to fail.
The Law of April 6, 1830- Mexico did not want Americans entering Texas.