Texas Republic
Texas Vocabulary
Texas Battles
Texas Regions
Early Texas History
100

The first elected president of Texas.

Who is Sam Houston?

100
Soldiers who are killed wounded captured or missing during battle
What is Casualties
100

The battle in which soldiers looked for silver but found hay

What is the Grass Fight?

100

The region that saw the most battles during the Texas Revolution.

What is the Coastal Plains?

100

This Native group had its own organized government and had a word for friends, where Texas got its name.

What is the Caddo?

200

President of Texas known as the Father of Texas Education.

Who is Mirabeau Lamar?

200

A person who believes that the government should share power with the states.

What is a federalist?

200

A siege at this site lasted 13 days and ended in a defeat for Texas.

What is the Alamo?

200

Region with the highest elevation and least rainfall.

What is the Mountains and Basins?

200

Temporary home make of hide that was easy to move

What is Tee Pee

300

Failed military campaign to gain land for Texas that took place in New Mexico.

What is the Santa Fe Expedition?

300
The formal joining of one political region to another
What is Annexation
300

Battle after which Texas won its independence.

What is the Battle of San Jacinto?

300

The Alamo is located in San Antonio, which is part of this region.

What is the Coastal Plains?

300

French explorer who got lost and assassinated in Texas while looking for the Mississippi River.

Who is LaSalle?

400
The fourth and last President of the republic of Texas
What is Anson Jones
400

Money owed to another person or country.

What is debt?

400

The battle that started the Texas Revolution.

What is the Battle of Gonzales?

400

This region is where nomadic Native groups hunted buffalo.

What is the Great Plains?

400

In 1821 Mexico gained independence from this country.

What is Spain?

500

Mexicans used these to execute captured Texan soldiers in Matamoros in 1844.

What is black beans?

500

A document that establishes laws in a country.

What is a constitution?

500

400 Texan prisoners were executed at Santa Anna's command.

What is the Goliad Massacre?

500

Native people in this region built homes made if this type of brick.

What is adobe?

500

The year Pineda mapped the coast of Texas.

What is 1519?

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