Vocabulary
Important People
Important Dates
Miscellaneous
Texas Native American Regions
100
Empresario
What is a land agent or land contractor under the system used by the Mexican government as a means of colonization?
100
Miguel Hidalgo
Father of Mexican Independence
100
1690
When was the Mission San Francisco de los Tejas established?
100
What is the Mexican Flag?
100
Comanchee
What is the Great Plains region?
200
Constitution
What is a body of basic principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed.
200
Agustine Iturbide
Emperor of Mexico who granted Mexico Independence.
200
1718
When was San Antonio de Valero (Alamo) mission founded in San Antonio?
200
Alonso Alvarez de Pineda
Who created the first map of the Texas Gulf Coast?
200
Karankawa
What are the Coastal Plains?
300
Federalism
What is a type of government in which the power is divided between the national government and other governmental units.
300
Stephen F. Austin
Who served as an empresario to settle families in Texas
300
1772
When was San Antonio established as the first capital of Texas?
300
Hernan Cortes
Who was the Spanish Conquistador that brought large parts of Mexico under the rule of Spain and led to the fall of the Aztec empire?
300
Apache
What is the Mountains and Basins
or
What is the Great Plains
400
Manifest Destiny
What is a future event accepted as inevitable
400
Martin de Leon
Who was the only Mexican empresario to found a colony in Texas.
400
1810
When did Hidalgo issue the Grito de Dolores?
400
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
Who launched an expedition from Mexico to Kansas in search of the 7 cities of Gold?
400
Wichita
What are the North Central Plains?
500
The Old 300
Who were the people of Austin's first colony in Texas?
500
Fray Damian Massanet
Who was the Spanish priest that established the first mission (San Francisco de los Tejas) in Texas?
500
1824
Mexican Independence
500
1718
When was San Antonio founded?
or
When was the Louisiana Purchase?
500
Cado
What are the Coastal Plains?