Texas Revolution
Dictator who controlled Mexico during the Revolution
Who is Antonio Lopez De Santa Anna?
The act of escorting Cattle across open ranges
What were Cattle Drives?
The name of the southern state organization that seceded
What is the Confederacy?
The first explorer to map the gulf of Mexico in 1519
Who was Alonso Alvarez De Pineda?
The original annexation of this state originally incited the Mexican/American War
What was the Annexation of Texas?
The final Texas Revolution Battle
What was the Battle of San Jacinto?
What influenced the cotton industry but caused controversy and the Civil War
What is Slavery?
The election that was the breaking point for Confederacy and Union tension
What was the Lincoln Election?
The Coastal Plains tribe that originally enslaved Cabeza De Vaca after his shipwreck on the Texas Coast
Who was the Karankawa?
The original belief of Americans that it was God's will to expand westwards into the rest of modern-day United States Territory
What was "Manifest Destiny"?
The date that Texas declared independence from Mexico
What was 1836?
The man who invented the Cotton Gin
Who was Eli Whitney?
The influence in the U.S. that was characterized between divides in the North and South, known by the differences in culture
What is Sectionalism?
Who was La Salle?
The treaty that ended the Mexican/American War and caused Mexico to surrender 55% of its territory
What was the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
The event in which Santa Anna executed all of the Texan Prisoners
What was the Goliad Massacre?
The bug that depleted cotton supplies in Texas by eating it
What is a Boll Weevil?
The name of the organization that rose to help recently freed African-Americans during U.S. reconstruction
What was the Freedman's Bureau?
The type of culture of Native Americans that was sedentary and built homes in the western parts of Texas
What was Puebloan Culture?
Who was President James K. Polk?
The final end to the Texas Revolution after the capture of Santa Anna
What was the Treaty of Versailes?
The people who mainly ended up building railroads
Who were Chinese Immigrants and African-American Prisoners?
The name of the man whose famous court case created a high level of tension after he was denied his freedom in an anti-slave state
The famed cities that influenced many Explorers who sought riches in the newly discovered land of Texas
What were the Seven Cities of Gold/Cibolo?
The believed river border of the State of Texas by Mexico before the Mexican/American War
What was the Nueces River?