Texas Geography
The city of Houston is located in this region of Texas.
What is the Coastal Plains?
Spain sought these three things in their explorations in the new world.
What are God, Gold, and Glory?
His father proposed bringing 300 white settlers to Texas before he died.
Who is Stephen F. Austin?
This was the belief that America was destined to expand to the west.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This Texan ascended to the Presidency after JFK was killed in 1963.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
This river separates the United States from Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande?
Spain wasn't alone. This colonial power also tried to set up colonies in the Southern United States.
Who is France?
Austin commanded a militia against this Coastal Texas indigenous tribe in 1824.
This treaty ended the Mexican-American war.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
During the Red Scare era after WWII, Texas made this illegal.
What is membership to the communist party?
Location, Place, Region, and Movement are four of the five themes of this Social Study.
What is Geography?
Spanish explorers brought these, which led to the deaths of many indigenous people.
What are diseases?
Mexico passed a law in 1829 which ended this, sparking conflict with their more American settlers.
What is Slavery?
Texans voted for this, meaning to absorb a territory, in 1836, but the United States refused to do it out of fear of causing conflict with Mexico.
What is annexation?
Immigrants from these two countries flocked to Texas in the aftermath of American/Soviet Proxy Wars.
What are Vietnam and Korea?
This type of island protects the mainland shore from ocean waves.
What is a barrier island?
These were Spaniards born in Spain, who held the highest social status in the Americas (over the criollos and mestizos).
Who were "peninsulares"?
What is the Republic of Fredonia?
Texas was cut off from the Eastern confederacy when the Union successfully captured this city.
What is Vicksburg, MS?
This company made the first transistor radio in 1954.
Who is "Texas Instruments"?
Don't blame them! These are the spaces between tectonic plates, and earthquakes are common here
What are fault lines?
This 1819 treaty set the border between the US and New Spain, and granted control of Florida to the United States.
What is the Adams-Onis Treaty?
This battle is often considered the "Lexington of Texas" for it's similarities to the Battle of Lexington and Concorn during the Revolutionary War.
What is the Battle of Gonzalez?
After the Civil War, this agricultural practice began to dominate the Texas economy.
What is cattle ranching?
Experts estimate that Texas will reach this population by the year 2050, more than double the population in 2010.
What is 55 million?