Vocabulary
People
People Cont
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous Cont
100
A cowhand.
What is vaquero?
100
The filibuster who captured Nacogdoches and declared Texas was an independent republic.
Who is James Long?
100
Leader of the East Texans who founded Nacogdoches?
Who is Gil Ybarbo?
100
The other name for the French Indian and War
What is Seven Years War?
100
The disputed area that filibusters and mustangers fled to.
What is Neutral Ground?
200
Leather leggings worn over pants
What are chaps?
200
Irish-American and mustanger suspected of being a spy for the U.S. Army.
Who is Philip Nolan?
200
Pirate that claimed to be interested in helping Mexicans win independence from Spain, but actually was just interested in stealing Spanish cargo.
Who is Jean Lafitte?
200
The effect of the French and Indian War.
What is France was no longer a threat to Spain?
200
Mexico received its independence from this country.
Who is Spain?
300
A long light rope used with a running noose to catch livestock, or without the noose to tether grazing animals.
What is a lariat?
300
The Father of Mexican Independence that issued a "Grito de Delores".
Who is Father Hidalgo?
300
Pirate that helped the Mexican revolutionaries by transporting them along the coast.
Who is Louis Michel Aury?
300
The significance of Bernardo Gutierrez de Lara.
What is leading a nearly successful revolution to try and liberate Texas from Spain?
300
The battled where the Spanish Army stopped the Republican Army of the North.
What is the Battle of Medina?
400
An individual who carries out rebellious activities in a foreign country.
What is a filibuster?
400
The mother of Texas.
Who is Jane Long?
400
Rebel leader who teamed up with Augustus Magee to form the Republican Army of the North.
Who is Bernardo Gutierrez de Lara?
400
This solved the boundary dispute between the United States and Spain.
What is the Adams-Onis treaty?
400
This is why Spain neglected to settle Texas.
What is no gold or silver, Mexico City was more advanced, unfriendly natives, and more fertile soil in California/Mexico?
500
A call for independence from the mother country.
What is a grito?
500
Spanish general whose victory over the Republican Army resulted in lots of death.
Who is Joaquin de Arredondo?
500
The Spanish governor who closed the East Texas missions once France was no longer a threat to Texas.
Who is Baron de Ripperda?
500
The purpose of the Gutierrez-Magee expedition.
What is liberate Texas from Spain?
500
The result of the Louisiana Purchase.
What is the U.S. doubling in size?
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