This is the Texas state flower.
What is the bluebonnet?
This river creates the border between Texas and Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande?
This is a Spanish word that means conquerer.
What is conquistador?
Many people in the United States did not want Texas to become a state because of these two issues.
What are debt and slavery?
What is the state bird?
What is the mockingbird?
These four U.S. states border Texas.
What are New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas & Louisiana?
This country sent Christopher Columbus on an expedition to explore Asia, but he reached an island near Florida instead.
What is Spain?
This small mammal of Texas uses its sharp sense of smell to find food.
What is the armadillo?
Texas is in this region of the United States.
What is the Southwest region?
In 1528, this conquistador survived a storm and landed near Galveston Island after weeks at sea.
Who is Cabeza de Vaca?
This mission was the site of a battle where fighters for Texas independence all died fighting off a large group of Mexican soldiers.
What is the Alamo?
This ocean creates the southeast border of Texas.
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
This monument is located on the site where the last battle of the Texas Revolution was fought, which led to independence.
What is the San Jacinto Monument?
This island was destroyed by a hurricane in 1900.
What is Galveston Island?