Unit 1: Geography & Natives Americans
Caddos lived in what region of Texas?
Coastal Plains
What are the three G's that had people from Europe wanting to explore the Americas?
GOD GOLD GLORY
How did Mexico allow Anglos to Settle?
empresarios with land grants
Philip Nolan would carry out unauthorized warfare between his men and soldiers of another country makes him?
Filibuster
Before the Texas Revolution, what resolution aligned the Texans with Santa Anna?
Turtle Bayou Resolutions
Peubloan people lived in which region?
Mountains & Basins
French military forces establishing settlements in the region resulted in Spain doing?
Sending Fray Damian Massanet and Alonso De Leon led a successful expedition for Spain into East Texas in 1690.
Who founded the largest anglo colony that Erasmo Segiun helped find the land for?
Stephen F. Austin
What created representative government in Mexico, Forced people into a religion (Catholic), and created the state of Coahuila y Texas. This merger of the two geographic regions eventually resulted in political tensions that divided the region
Mexican Federal Constitution of 1824
Who founded the Largest Anglo colony in Texas
Stephen F. Austin
Palo Duro canyon was used for....
Shelter
Holy water was thought by the Early Texans as?
Water that had sickness in it or created sickness
Who established a colony near what is present day Gonzales
Green DeWitt
Whose arrest led him from being conservative and not wanting independence to advocating and pushing Texas to be its own country
Stephen F Austin
Cheap farm land enticed what group of people to move to Texas
Americans
What was the primary reason early Native Texans had Nomadic Characteristics
To follow grazing animals their main food Sources.
What are characteristics of Spanish Colonization?
Missions, Presidios, and Settlements that held Spain's claim to land
What Battle had the defeat of the Gutierrez-Magee expedition?
Battle of Medina
A letter from this person pushed for reinforcements to come to his aid, the letter was
William B Travis
What Battle gave Texas its independence?
Battle of San Jacinto
Because of wood and other resources being scarce the Pueblos used what to make their homes.
Adobe
Tejas people blame the church for?
Crop failures and Diseases
What was part of the reason for Mexico to want independence from Spain?
Many colonists were angry because they were denied the best jobs
Colonists were upset by the heavy hand of Spanish rule
George Childress the main Author of the Texas Declaration of Independence which was written at what location
Washington on the Brazos
The group of people wanting independence and separate from Mexico
Texas War Party