Vocabulary
Important People
Important Events
Miscellaneous
Teacher's Choice
100
Built by the Spanish to convert Native Americans to Catholicism
What are missions?
100
Leader of the Texas Army who went on to become the president of Texas not once, but twice
Who is Sam Houston?
100
The year Mexico became independent from Spain
What is 1821?
100
Goal for Spanish exploration and settlements
What are God, Glory, and Gold?
100
Language that is spoken in Texas, not English
What is Spanish?
200
Group of people who had complex social and governmental systems before Europeans arrived
Who are Native Americans?
200
Native American tribe who were nomads and fisherman in the Gulf Coastal Region
Who are the Karankawa?
200
Group of people who were excited to move to Mexican Texas
Who are Anglos?
200
Reason why Mexico encouraged Americans to settle in Texas
What is to increase the population of northern Mexico?
200
Famous Tejano artist, singer of Como La Flor
Who is Selena?
300
Westward Expansion - a threat to Native American groups and Spain later Mexico
What is Manifest Destiny?
300
Spanish explorer who wrote a book about his time in Texas
Who is Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca?
300
This purchase in 1803 caused the Spanish government to see the United States as a threat
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
300
Texas regions are grouped on these 3 characteristics
What are location, climate, and physical features?
300
El Paso's location in Texas
What is West Texas
400
Texas became the 28th state because the United States did this
What is Annex?
400
Native American tribe who were nomads in the Plains Region
Who are the Apache, Comanche, Kiowa?
400
This era saw the building of missions and forts
What is the Spanish Colonial Era?
400
Spain, Germany, France, United States, Native Americans
What are groups who have influenced Texas culture?
400
Give this man two pairs, he needs to get stompin' in his air force ones
Who is Nelly?
500
To surround
What is Siege?
500
Empressario like Stephen F. Austin, except he settled mostly Mexican families in Mexican Texas
Who is Martin De Leon?
500
This major Texas History event occurred in 1836
What is the Texas Revolution
500
This popular dance presentation
What is Folklorico?
500
You remind him of a girl that he once knew
Who is Usher?