Indigenous Texas
The best horse riders on the continent, this nomadic tribe was feared across Texas for their fierce warriors and deadly raids on Anglo settlements.
Who are the Comanches?
They were built along the walls of a mission to protect it from raids and attacks.
What are precidios?
He was a radical thinking priest who is credited for ringing the bell to start off the fight against the Spanish government for Mexican Independence.
Father Hidalgo de Costilla
At the settlement of Gonzalez, this was drawn on a big flag under the words "Come and take it" and the flag was presented to the Mexican army who had shown up to do just that.
What is a cannon?
As president of the Republic of Texas, he was an early supporter of US annexation and against the combative hostile treatment of indigenous people - though he experiences a lot of backlash for both these points.
Who is Sam Houston?
This coastal tribe are famous for surviving on shellfish and canoeing their pierced, painted selves up and down the barrier islands of the gulf.
Who are the Karankawas?
He became an important name when he took a few families from the Escandon settlement of Nuevo Santander to the north of the Rio Grande to set up a small settlement their against everyone's advice.
Don Thomas Sanchez (founder of Laredo)
This is how long the fight for independence actually took after starting in 1810.
What is 11 years? (ending in 1821)
He led a long siege to capture the Alamo from the Mexican army in order to use it as a base for the ongoing Texas Revolution although he wouldn't be there at the most famous battle that happened there.
Stephen F Austin
As the second president, he moved the Texas capital from Houston to a little town ironically named "Waterloo", using a recent cholera outbreak in Houston as justification to spite his political rival.
Mirabeau Bonaparte Lamar (founder of Austin, Texas)
This tribe was a serious threat to the people living in the early settlement of Laredo and would often perform raids on the outer walls of the city.
Who are the Lipan Apaches?
It started out as a Spanish mission where priests and brothers would try to spread their faith to the local indigenous population and later saw a major battle during the Texas Revolution
What is San Antonio de Valero?
Once Mexico had become independent, the new government quickly made this practice illegal.
What is slavery?
He was elected president of Mexico under the promise of honoring the constitution of 1824, however once in power he quickly switched to a more authoritarian rule that was much less popular. At the alamo he famously flew a red flag for "no quarter - no survivors"
Who is Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna?
It is the biggest reason, despite rumors to the contrary, for the American Civil War and had an effect on everyone's lives whether or not they were actively participating in it.
What is slavery?
They had a matrilineal society up in the plains of the panhandle where a newly married couple would go to live in the wife's family's domed grass house.
Who were the Caddos?
This Spanish doctor turned explorer charted most of South Texas until getting separated from his group and maybe being kidnapped by Karankawas - he later escaped and wandered solitary across the state performing medicine and living as a native.
Who is Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca?
In newly independent Mexico, he became an empresario and attempted to make his fortune by bringing families to the territory in order to pay back all his debts from failed businesses in the past.
Who is Moses Austin?
He was a loud theatrical politician from Tennessee who, upon losing reelection, famously said "Y'all can go to hell, I'm going to Texas"
Who is Davy Crockett?
Once Texas joined the Civil War as a confederate slave state, he was put in a position of leadership and defended Laredo from an attempted raid on our cotton supply by Union soldiers.
Who is Colonel Santos Benavides?
This south Texas tribe left behind rock art that tells the story of the moon and other natural phenomena. They were tough enough to survive in the brutal heat by eating what they could find, scorpions, snakes, cactus, lizards, and maybe bits of wood during times of scarcity
Who were the Coahuiltecans?
They belonged to a group of colonial residents who were born in Spain on the Iberian Peninsula and who were treated as the most respected and most influential group in the Spanish colonies.
Who were the Peninsulares?
After his father's death, Stephen F Austin would pack up his law practice and build a new settlement here, where he brought in over 300 families from the US to make a new life.
What is San Felipe de Austin?
A military veteran from North Carolina, he was brought to the Alamo to get the rebels into more effective fighting form and led much of the fighting before dying there along side many Anglo and Tejano rebels.
Who is William Barret Travis?
These two overlapping groups had to take up much of the labor in the state while the fighting was going on far away on the Mason Dixon Line, which hurt the Texas economy and its people
Who are women and the poor?
This is the origin and meaning of the word "Texas"
What is the Caddo word Tehas which means "friend" or "friendly greetings"
They were of mixed ancestry, Spanish and indigenous, and in the colonies they were treated as a lower class of people whose blood had been "diminished" by the mixing
Who are Meztisos? (most of us are)
This is the meeting of the Mexican government in which Stephen F Austin and other Anglos petitioned to get a list of changes passed that would benefit the Anglo settlers in the north of the Mexican territory, including speaking English, allowing slavery, and making it easier for people to immigrate from the US.
What is the Convention of 1833?
This is how long the Battle of San Jacinto actually took, thanks to Sam Houston surprising the Mexican soldiers and Mirabeau B Lamar leading the cavalry in to flank them into the swamps of east texas.
what is 18 minutes?