Thinking like a historian
A person who was there giving their account of the event.
Primary source.
This Texas region includes mountains, deserts, and the driest climate in the state.
What is the Mountains and Basins Region?
Who was looking for a water route from EUROPE to ASIA.
Christopher Columbus
his French explorer claimed land for France and built Fort St. Louis in Texas.
Who is René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle?
The Caddo lived in this part of Texas.
What is East Texas/Coastal Plains?
This skill means deciding if a source is reliable and trustworthy.
What is sourcing
This region is home to the Piney Woods and receives the most rainfall in Texas.
What is the Coastal Plains?
What were the reasons for Exploration.
The 3 G's God, Gold, Glory.
Cabeza de Vaca lived among this Native group on the Texas coast.
Who are the Karankawa?
This nomadic group of skilled horsemen hunted buffalo in the Great Plains.
Who are the Comanche?
This means putting events in the order they happened.
What is chronology?
This region contains Palo Duro Canyon.
What is the Great Plains?
He was shipwrecked near Galveston and lived among Native Texans for years.
Who is Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca? (cow head)
La Salle’s colony brought conflict with this coastal group.
Who are the Karankawa?
The Jumano built pueblos in this region.
What is the Mountains and Basins?
This historian’s skill asks “Why did this happen and what happened because of it?”
What is cause and effect?
This region has rolling hills and is known for ranching and the Edwards Plateau.
What is the Central Plains (or North Central Plains)?
This Spanish explorer searched for the Seven Cities of Gold.
Who is Francisco Vásquez de Coronado?
This was the main reason the French came to Texas.
What is to expand trade and claim land?
The Karankawa used dugout canoes to travel this part of Texas.
What is the Gulf Coast?
You are reading a chapter in a Texas history textbook about the Caddo people’s farming methods.
secondary source?
Name all four major regions of Texas.
What are the Mountains and Basins, Great Plains, Central Plains, and Coastal Plains?
Who Defeted the AZTEC Empire
Hernan Cortes
Explorers hoped to find this mythical city of gold.
What is Cibola?
This tribe split into the Lipan and Mescalero groups.
Who are the Apache?