Symbols of Texas
This is the state large mammal of Texas
What is the long horn?
This is the river that separates Texas and Mexico
What is the Rio Grande River?
This was the first battle of the Texas Revolution.
What is The Battle of Gonzalez?
These are temporary shelters used by Indians who moved from place to place.
What are teepees?
This is the term used to describe the grassy plains where cattle roamed free in Texas
What is the open Range?
This is the year the Civil began and the year it ended.
What is 1861 and 1865?
These are the names of the sailing vessels used by Christopher Columbus on his first expedition to find a shorter safer route to Asia
What are the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria?
This is the state tree of Texas
What is the Pecan Tree?
This is the capitol of Texas
This was the last battle of the Texas Revolution.
What is the battle of San Jacinto?
This was the animal that American Indians depended on for food, shelter, and clothing
What is the buffalo?
This group of people built the railroad in Texas.
Who were the Chinese?
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This is the year that Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
When was 1492?
This is the state flower of Texas.
What is the bluebonnet?
This is the body of water to the south of Texas that makes up the coastline of Texas.
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
This man was the leader of the Mexican Army during the Texas Revolution
Who is Santa Anna?
Some American Indians began to settle in permanent homes and grow crops. These crops were harvested by the American Indian tribes
What are corn, squash and beans?
This is the way that cowboys determined which cattle belonged to their ranch at Round-up.
What is a branding?
This is the name of the general who led the confederate states in the south.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This is the number of expeditions that Christopher Columbus made across the Atlantic in search of God Gold and Glory
What is 4?
This is the Texas State motto
What is Friendship
This is the region in Texas that you will most likely find cacti and tumbleweed?
What is the Mountains and Basins region?
This man was the first elected president of the Republic of Texas and served two terms in office.
Who is Sam Houston?
This tribe was the first to meet European explorers which led to their demise when they caught Europeans diseases from the explorers and died.
Who were the Karankawa Indians?
The widespread use of this product invented by J. Glidden was a major factor that led to the end of cattle dives in Texas
What is barbed wire?
This is the name of the president of the United states of America during the Civil War.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
This is the explorer who used his "tighty-whities" to make a raft to return to Europe after he was abandoned on an expedition to the New world.
Who is Cabaza de Vaca?
This is the state gem of Texas
What is the blue Topaz?
This is the region of Texas that best suits faming and ranching because it has fertile soil and a warm and humid climate.
What is the Coastal Plains region?
This man was a one-time President of the Republic of Texas and later became known as The Father of Education
Who is Mirabeau Lamar?
These American Indians believed to be descendants of the Mound Builders built houses that looked like beehives.
Who were the Caddo Indians?
These are the groups that first brought cattle to Texas.
Who were the European explorers and missionaries?
Texas fought for this side in the civil war.
Who were the Confederates?
This is the explorer who is believed to have made the first map of the Texas Coast line
Who is Pineda?
There are three colors on the Texas flag - Red, white and blue. What does each color represent?
Red- Bravery
White - purity
Blue - loyalty
This region of Texas reaches farthest North of the state
What is the Great Plains Region /Panhandle?
This battle was fought in Texas on March 6, 1839 when less than 200 Texians defended themselves against more than 2,000 Mexican soldiers. This battle today symbolizes sacrifice and hope though out the world.
What is The Battle of the Alamo?
This term can be used to describe the brick made of mud and straw used by the Jumano to build their homes.
What is Adobe?
This is the reason that ranchers sent their cattle to markets in the north after the Civil war.
Cattle were worth more in the north because demand was higher there.
This term is used to describe an effort to stop ships from going into a port.
What is a blockade?
This is the name of the French explorer who founded a fort in Matagorda Bay and flew a French flag over Texas.
Who is Rene Robert Cavelier Sieur De La Salle?
These are the State bird and small mammal of Texas
What is the mocking bird and the Armadillo?
This region has the largest population in Texas
What is the gulf coastal Plains region?
These documents were signed to end the Texas Revolution.
What are the Treaties of Velasco?
This is the term used to describe American Indians that moved from place to place at different seasons.
What is a nomad?
This is the location of the first major gusher of petroleum in Texas in 1901.
Where is Spindletop?
This is where and by whom were the first shots were fired in the Civil war.
Who were the Confederates that fired shots at fort Sumter, A union fort in South Carolina?
This was the main reason for missionaries to travel to the new world.
What is to spread Christianity?
This is the nickname for the state of Texas
What is The Lone Star State?
This region has just one major city and the lowest population in Texas
What is the Mountains and Basins region?
Texas became an independent country after this Revolution against Mexico.
What is the Texas Revolution?
This is the term used to describe the ice bridge that existed between Asia and North America across which the first Americans are believed to have travelled.
What is Beringia?
This is the term used to describe an economic system in which people are free to produce and sell good and services with little control by the government.
What is Free enterprise?
This is the number of states that had annexed to the united states of America before Texas?
What are 27 states?
This is the term used to describe the forts built by Spanish soldiers to protect the missionaries from attack by American Indians
What are presidios?