Regions of Texas
Native Americans
Explorers
Missions
Empresarios
100
The 4 Physical Regions of Texas
What is
Blue = Gulf Coastal Plains
Green = North Central Plains
Red = Great Plains
Yellow = Mountains & Basins
100
This is what killed the majority of Native Americans.
What is diseases?
100
This is what was significant about the date 1519.
What is Pineda claimed Texas for the Spanish while mapping its coastline?
100
This is the 4 steps in the Mission System and where most of the missions in Texas were built.
What is missions, presidios, towns, ranchos? What is in east Texas?
100
He is called the "Father of Texas" and was the first empresario of Texas with his first colony The Old 300.
Who is Stephen F. Austin?
200
This is the era that regions of Texas are discussed in.
What is Natural Texas & Its People?
200
This group of Native Americans was known for their success with horses and reliance on buffalo. They would control the Great Plains until the 1890s. Quanah Parker was one of their last great chiefs.
Who are the Comanche?
200
This is why the Spanish explored Texas.
What is Gold, Glory, God?
200
This was the first mission in West Texas (El Paso today)
What is the Yselta mission? (Corpus Christi de Yselta)
200
He petitioned the Spanish to bring American colonist into Texas in 1820 before dying and leaving his son to have to convince Mexico to let the colony continue in 1821.
Who is Moses Austin?
300
This city is the capital of Texas.
This city is the 4th largest city in the United States, and one of the 10th busiest port cities in the world.
This city is the only major city in Mountains and Basins region of Texas.
This city was founded in 1718 with the Valero Mission and the Bexar Presidio.
What is Austin?
What is Houston?
What is El Paso?
What is San Antonio?
300
These tribes were nomadic.
What are the Apache, Comanche, Kawarkawas, & Atapachns?
300
This explorer was shipwrecked in Galveston while looking for Cibola and had to travel through Texas for 2 years to return to Mexico City.
Who is Cabeza da Vaca?
300
This was the first mission in East Texas, and was built by this man.
What is San Francisco de los Tejas? Who is Fray Damien Massanet?
300
He created the only Mexican empresario colony in Texas.
Who is Martin de Leon?
400
This is the river marked by a 2.
This is the river marked by a 4.
This is the river that acts as a boundary between Texas and Louisiana.
What is the Red River?
What is the Rio Grande River?
What is the Sabine River?
400
These tribes were Sedendary.
What are the Caddos, Wichita, Tonkawas, & Cohuiltechans?
400
This French explorer overshot the Mississippi River and landed in Texas creating Fort St. Louis. He was killed by his own men and the fort was burned by the Karankawa. He made the Spanish think their claim on Texas might be taken away.
Who is La Salle?
400
These were 2 successful mission. The mission system worked in Mexico, but not in Texas.
What is Yselta and Valero (Alamo)?
400
He was a later empresario who founded the city of Gonzalez.
Who is Green DeWitt?
500
These 2 important natural resources are found in all 4 regions.
The elevation does this when moving from east to west in Texas.
What is oil/petroleum & natural gas?
What is increases?
500
This group caused a lot of trouble for many Texas explorers and settlers. They viewed Cabeza da Vaca as a shaman however and did not eat him.
This group had confederacies, dome shaped huts, and they are the reason the state is named Texas.
Who are the Karankawa?
Who are the Caddo?
500
This is why Cabeza da Vaca is significant.
He became the expert on Texas after being shipwrecked there and wrote a book about all the things he saw and did.
500
This was the primary reasons missions were built in Texas.
What is to secure Spanish claims to Texas and keep the French out?
500
If not for these 2 gentlemen Texas would not have seen the Austin colony occur changing the history of Texas.
Who are Baron da Bastrop & Erasmos Sequin?