Thinking like a historian
A person who was there giving their account of the event.
Primary source.
This Texas region includes mountains, deserts, and the driest climate in the state.
What is the Mountains and Basins Region?
The Caddo lived in this part of Texas.
What is East Texas/Coastal Plains?
The western half of Texas is generally (drier/wetter) than the eastern half.
What is drier?
Native groups in dry regions built these structures from adobe.
What are pueblos?
This skill means deciding if a source is reliable and trustworthy.
What is sourcing
0: This region is home to the Piney Woods and receives the most rainfall in Texas.
What is the Coastal Plains?
his nomadic group of skilled horsemen hunted buffalo in the Great Plains.
Who are the Comanche?
The river that forms part of Texas’ southern border.
: What is the Rio Grande?
Coastal tribes ate this as a main part of their diet.
: What is seafood/fish/shellfish?
This means putting events in the order they happened.
What is chronology?
This region contains Palo Duro Canyon.
What is the Great Plains?
The Jumano built pueblos in this region.
What is the Mountains and Basins?
The highest point in Texas.
What is Guadalupe Peak?
Plains tribes used this animal for food, clothing, and shelter.
: What is the buffalo/bison?
This historian’s skill asks “Why did this happen and what happened because of it?”
What is cause and effect?
This region has rolling hills and is known for ranching and the Edwards Plateau.
What is the Central Plains (or North Central Plains)?
: The Karankawa used dugout canoes to travel this part of Texas.
What is the Gulf Coast?
The Great Plains have this type of climate that supports grasslands.
What is semi-arid?
The Caddo practiced this farming method growing corn, beans, and squash together.
: What is the Three Sisters method?
You are reading a chapter in a Texas history textbook about the Caddo people’s farming methods.
secondary source?
Name all four major regions of Texas.
What are the Mountains and Basins, Great Plains, Central Plains, and Coastal Plains?
This tribe split into the Lipan and Mescalero groups.
Who are the Apache?
: Name one major river in the Coastal Plains region.
What is the Trinity, Brazos, Colorado, or Rio Grande?
This tribe used portable tipis so they could follow the buffalo.
Who are the Comanche?