Spanish Colonial
Spain established these religious settlements to convert Texas Indians.
What is a mission ? / What are missions?
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Sometimes known as "the Father of Texas" for settling the first Anglo families under the Empresario System.
Who is Stephen F. Austin?
A military tactic in which one side completely surrounds their enemy with the goal of wearing them down and causing them to run out of food and supplies.
What is a siege?
Owing money.
- This was a significant challenge for Texas that grew over time with no way for Texas to pay it off.
What is debt?
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The belief that the United States was supposed to expand all the way to the west coast of North America.
What is Manifest Destiny?
These military settlements were established to protect missions.
What is a presidio? / What are presidios?
A Tejano man who advocated (pushed) for the Empresario System in Texas and helped Stephen F. Austin locate land for settlement.
Who is Erasmo Seguín?
These documents ended the Texas Revolution and set the terms for peace.
What are the Treaties of Velasco?
The act of joining some territory to another.
What is annexation?
What is the U.S.-Mexico War?
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This Spanish city was founded in 1718 and would later go on to become Texas' second capital (after Los Adaes).
What is San Antonio?
An Anglo empresario who settled 166 families in Texas and founded the town of Gonzales.
Who is Green DeWitt?
This group of people supported power being shared between the national, or the federal government, and the states.
What is a federalist? / What are federalists?
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A type of government in which people elect representatives to work for them and their interests.
What is a republic?
This document ended the U.S.-Mexico War with an American victory.
The U.S. bought this territory from France in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This Anglo empresario attempted to rebel against the Mexican government by taking over an old fort in Nacogdoches with several of his men.
Who is Haden Edwards?
This group of people supported power being focused in the hands of a small group of individuals in Mexico City.
What is a centralist? / What are centralists?
This conflict between some Comanches and the Texas military took place at a meeting in San Antonio.
What is the Council House Fight?
This event helped increase California's population rapidly as people flooded into the state.
What is the Gold Rush?
Mostly American men who entered Texas illegally for economic opportunity or to help fight for Mexican Independence.
What are filibusters? / What is a filibuster?
This document established the Mexican government as a system of shared power between the central government and the states.
What is the Constitution of 1824?
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This Anglo man served as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1836 where he was chosen to serve as the Commander-in-Chief of the Texian Army.
Who is Sam Houston?
This was an uprising of Tejanos and Indians in East Texas against the government of the Republic of Texas.
What is the Córdova Rebellion?
This political principle states that the power of a government is with the people.
What is popular sovereignty?