Age of Contact & Colonial TX
During the last ice age glaciers created a _______ ______ that allowed ancient humans to travel from Asia to the Americas.
What is a land bridge?
These were Spanish missions establised to convert American Indians to Christianity and make them loyal Spanish subjects.
What is a presidio?
This battle in 1835 is important because it was the fist battle of the Texas Revolution.
What is the Battle of Gonzales?
Many southern cotton plantation owners moved to Texas in the mid-1800s because they had done this to their soil in their former states.
What is soil exhaustion?
This invention caused the end of the open range.
What is barbed wire?
This was a three-year war. It started in 1950 and ended in an armistice (technically still an ongoing war).
What is the Korean War?
Pre-Columbian Texas before 1,500 BCE is important because it is when the people of Texas transitioned from hunter-gathering to _______ and living in villages.
What is farming?
This man is considered the 'Father of Texas'.
Who is Stephen F. Austin?
This battle in 1836 is important because it was when Santa Anna surrendered and ended the Texas Revolution.
What ist he Battle of San Jacinto?
Slavery in Texas ended after this war.
What is the Civil War?
This war, from 1914 to 1918, affected the entire world and stimulated new war technologies like tanks, planes, and submarines.
What is World War I
This war lasted 19 years from 1955 to 1975 and it is the only war the U.S. has ever lost.
What is the Vietnam War?
What animal best illustrates the powerful impact caused by the Spanish arrival in the Americas.
What is the horse?
The is the capital of Mexico.
What is Mexico City?
Texas Independence Day.
What is March 2?
Thia is a system in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land.
What is Sharecropping?
This event in 1929 was the worst economic disaster in American history and showed how banks and the stock market can affect our economy.
What is the Great Depression?
This U.S. President assassinated on November 22, 1963 as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas.
Who is President John F. Kennedy?
The American Indian culture revolved around what animal?
What is bison?
This was the dictator of Mexico.
Who is Santa Anna?
This person was the first president and the first govenor of Texas.
Who is Sam Houston?
The Texas oil industry first experienced an oil “gusher” on this hill.
What is Spindletop?
This event prompted the U.S. to enter WW II.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
This movement during the 1950s and 1960s was a struggle for social justice for Black Americans to gain equal rights under the law in the U.S.
What was the civil rights movement?
These were the two most powerful tribes of Native Amrican Indians in Texas.
What is the Apache and Commanche?
This small weapon became an important symbol at the Battle of Gonzales.
What is a cannon?
Annexation of Texas by the United States resulted is starting this war.
What is the Mexican-American War?
This is an American breed of beef cattle that is native to Texas. It is characterized by its long horns, which can span more than 8 ft from tip to tip.
What is the Texas Longhorn?
This war, from 1939 to 1945, was the biggest and deadliest war in history that resulted in two rival superpowers; the U.S.A. and the Soviet Union.
What is World War II?
This city is the capital of Texas.
What is the City of Austin?