Terms to Know
Terms to Know
Places to Know
Documents and Dates
People to Know
100
This term refers to a formal agreement between two countries.
What is a treaty?
100
This name of a famous mission and site of the most famous battle in the Texas is actually the Spanish word "cottonwood tree."
What is "The Alamo"?
100
This famous mission was quiet for almost 120 years. In 1836, it became one of the most famous places in American History for its 13 Days to Glory. Here the most decisive battle of the Texas Revolution was fought.
What is San Antonio de Valero mission?
100
This document, along with $15 million dollars, doubled the size of the United States, and gave us our neighbor to the East!
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
100
This term refers to Mexican people living in Texas. In this day and time, there is a specific genre of music that goes by this name.
What is Tejano?
200
This term refers to a person who is among the first to settle in a region.
What is a pioneer?
200
This term refers to the brutal killing of many people. List the most famous one of the Texas Revolution.
What is a massacre? The Goliad Massacre, in which Fannin had surrendered, and he and his troops were imprisoned at Presidio La Bahia. However, Santa Anna brutally ordered that all Texans be shot.
200
This was the site of the first battle of the Texas Revolution on October 2, 1835.
What is Gonzalez?
200
This type of document declares separation of one country from another country.
What is a Declaration of Independence?
200
This legendary man was originally from Kentucky, but had lived most of his life in Louisiana. He was quite a rebel, and came to Texas where he married the daughter of the (GASP!) Mexican vice-president of the province. He was a fighter, and a brave soldier who died at the Alamo. He is famous for his huge knife that killed a sheriff in a fight. Name this man.
Who is Jim Bowie?
300
This term refers to a formal meeting held for a special purpose.
What is a convention?
300
This term refers to the business practice in which a person trades things for other things, but without using money.
What is to barter?
300
This was the site of the second battle of the Texas Revolution.
What is the Alamo?
300
The Alamo is located in what Texas city that you can still visit today?
What is San Antonio, Texas?
300
This man led an army of volunteers from Tennessee. Even today, the mascot of The University of Tennessee is "The Volunteers," but the mascot you see is a dog. Yep, it really is. This man was a great help to the Texas soldiers, and he died at the Alamo.
Who is Davey Crockett?
400
This term refers to a ranch worker from Mexico--a Mexican cowboy.
What is a vaquero?
400
This term refers to a change of government, usually by force.
What is a revolution?
400
At this famous battlefield, Texas won its independence, thus ending the Texas Revolution.
What is the Battle of San Jacinto?
400
This document was signed on March 2, 1836, at a convention in the town of Washington-on-the-Brazos. This document declared the separation of Texas from Mexico. Name this important document.
What is the Texas Declaration of Independence?
400
This man is known as the "Father of Texas." He inherited the huge task of leading settlers to Texas when his father died unexpectedly. Our state capitol is named for him. Name this man.
Who is Stephen F. Austin?
500
This term refers to a form of government in which people choose leaders to represent them.
What is a republic?
500
This term refers to the edge of a settlement, sometimes the dividing line between two areas.
What is a frontier?
500
These prairie homes were simply dug out of the side of a hill. They provided shelter from the wind and dust, but they were dark and damp.
What is a dugout?
500
This treaty is the formal agreement between Texas and Mexico that ended the Texas Revolutionary war. In it, Santa Anna promised never again to fight against Texas.
What is the Treaty of Velasco?
500
This man was an ancestor of Mrs. Bray who died at The Alamo. He was from Virginia originally, but came to Texas. He was a Baptist preacher, and was known to be a man of "unblemished character." You can see his name on the statue outside the Alamo, or on the back wall inside the Alamo. Name this man. http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fga77
Who is William Garnett?
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