European Explorers
Native Americans
Texas Revoltion
Westward Expansion
& Setting Texas
Famous Texas Facts
100
Why did Spanish Explorers explore Texas?
What is to find riches and claim new land?
100
What animal did the Plains Indians hunt to meet many of their needs (such as clothing, food, and tools)?
What are Buffalo?
100
When Polk was elected President, Texas joined the...
What is the United States?
100
Why did people colonize Texas?
What is for land, good climate, and opportunities!
100
What is the name of the monument erected to honor the winning of the final battle where Santa Anna was defeated?
What is the Monument of San Jacinto?
200
An Italian sailor who set out to find a new route to the East by sailing West.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
200
A dedicated amount of land where American/Texan settlers wanted Indians to move to (now known as Oklahoma)...
What is a reservation?
200
This man is credited with winning the Battle of SanJacinto against Santa Anna...
Who is Sam Houston?
200
What is the famous discovery made in cities like Beaumont Texas in the early 1900's? (think black gold)
What is oil?
200
A mission located in San Antonio where a famous battle took place.
What is the Alamo?
300
The Spanish explorer who looked for the Fountain of Youth in Florida.
Who is Ponce de Leon?
300
Indians were ________ at the buffalo hunters for skinning the buffalo and leaving thousands of dead buffalo bodies to rot.
What is angry?
300
Why did the Texas Revolution begin?
What is because Santa Anna passed the law of April 6 which said no more Americans or slaves could move to Texas, and placed taxes on their businesses?
300
Name three physical characteristics of Texas that someone settling in the new frontier might have used to describe the new land...
What is located in the South, warm climate, and has 4 different regions (mountains and basins, Coastal plains, Central plains, and Great plains)?
300
Texas seceded from the United States because they wanted to have slaves. Texas was part of the...
What is the Confederacy?
400
LaSalle sailed down the Mississippi river and claimed land in this state for France..
What is Louisiana?
400
Why did Mackenzie order his men to burn the Plains Indians' belongings?
What is.. it would be hard for the Indians to survive the winter and they would have to move to the reservation.
400
Why did Texans create a constitution?
What is to create a government with laws for its citizens.
400
Products could be moved more cheaply and much faster by this new method of land transportation in the 1830's.
What is the steam locomotive?
400
This man is famous for the first settlement in Texas...
Who is Stephen F. Austin?
500
This explorer and hundreds of soldiers went to Pueblo in search of the Cities of...
What are the Cities of Gold? Bonus: Was there any gold?
500
Why did the Indian Wars begin? (2 reasons)
What is because American hunters were hunting all of their buffalo and taking settling (taking) Indian land?
500
What is the document that was signed after Santa Anna was captured after the Battle of San Jacinto?
What is the Treaty of Velasco?
500
The movement of cattle from the South to the North.
What are cattle drives?
500
Why did people settle on the Gulf of Mexico?
What is to have easy access to the Gulf of Mexico for exporting goods?
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