Texas Revolution
This Mexican general would later become president of Mexico.
Who is Santa Anna?
These historical objects are often dug up, or may be found laying on the surface.
What are artifacts?
A large area of flat, or nearly flat, land.
What is a plain?
This is a natural feature of the land.
What is a landform?
This was a Spanish soldier-explorer.
What was a conquistador?
These men would round up Longhorn cattle in the early 1800s and move them into Texas for the first time.
Who are Vaqueros?
This group of people were both meat eaters and enjoyed their veggies.
Any substance made from oil or natural gas.
When you live in the city?
What is urban?
A religious settlement that provided food and shelter to the native Indians.
What was a mission?
This battle over a small cannon would start the Texas Revolution.
What is the Battle of Gonzales?
This type of building material is hand-made out of dirt, water, and straw.
What is adobe?
A period of lower than normal rainfall.
What is a drought?
This is a form of government run by elected officials.
What is a republic?
This was a fort or military outpost built to protect settlements.
What was a presidio?
This battle ended the Texas Revolution and allowed Texas to gain independence from Mexico.
What is the Battle of San Jacinto?
This group of people wandered across the United States in search of seasonal food and water.
Who were nomads?
The wearing away of the Earth's surface by water, wind, ice, and gravity.
What is erosion?
This branch of government has the power to make laws.
What is the legislative branch?
This is a person of Mexican heritage who considers Texas home.
Who is a Tejano?
He is known as "The Father of Texas."
Who is Stephen F. Austin?
These people work to find objects from the past, to tell a story of the human race.
Who are archaeologists?
An layer of rock or gravel that absorbs rainfall and keeps it underground.
What is an aquifer?
This branch of government has the power to enforce and carry out the laws.
What is the executive branch?
A white person living in the United States, who is not Hispanic.
Who is an Anglo-American?