Friendship and New Beginnings
Information divided into periods of time divided by similar characteristics.
What are eras?
3 G's
What is God, Glory, and Gold.
Sam Houston
Who was the first and third President of Texas?
Reasons for needed annexation
What is debt and protection?
Water
What contributed to the growth of settlements and decision on where to locate them.
Spanish Colonial Era
What were Mission and presidios
Turtle Bayou Resolutions
Texans decided to align themselves with Santa Anna.
President of the United States that accepted annexation.
Who is James Polk?
Age of Contact
What is the period when the Spanish and French explorers claimed land in Texas.
Suspected of plotting to claim land in Texas for the United States.
Who was Phillip Nolan?
Father of Education
Who is Marabeau B. Lamar.
1845
When was Texas annexed by the United States?
Motivation of early explorers to investigate the Americas.
What is gold?
Matagorda Bay
What is the location where Rene-Robert Cavelier de La Salle crashed while looking for the mouth of the Mississippi River.
Meeting place where delegates me to establish an independent government.
What is Washington-on-the-Brazos?
Anson Jones
Who was President of Texas during annexation?
Natural Texas and Its People
What is the era where American Indian tribes lived in Texas and adapted to the environmnet?
Blocking out the French
Why did Fray Damian Massanet lead an expedition for Spain into east Texas in 1690?
Texas Rangers
Who replaced the Texan Army in protecting the border and plains from American Indians?
Belief that the U.S. should own all land from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
What is Manifest Destiny?