Filibusters
Pirates and Revolutionaries
vocabulary
Empresarios
Miscellaneous
100
A mustanger who refused to surrender to the Spanish and was killed fighting them.
Who is Philip Nolan?
100
The pirate who transported Mex soldiers to fight against the Spanish.
Who is Michael Aury?
100
Green De Witt was one of these.
What is an empresario?
100
The first man to have the idea of moving Anglos to Texas.
Who is Moses Austin?
100
The bloodiest battle on Texas soil.
What is the Battle of Medina?
200
The mustanger who was killed by the Spanish. He was also a doctor.
Who is James Long?
200
The pirate who took Aury's base in Galveston and attacked US ships.
Who is Jean La Fitte?
200
A diary of a Texas colonist is an example of a _________ source.
What is a primary source?
200
The most successful empresario.
Who is Stephen Fuller Austin?
200
The treaty that got rid of the Neutral Zone and gave Fl. to the Us.
What is the Adams-Onis Treaty?
300
She is known as the Mother of Texas.
Who is Jane Long?
300
The priest who issed the "grito " or call for independence from Spain.
Who is Father Hidalgo?
300
The freeing of a country from outside control.
What is liberation?
300
The man who helped SFA get his contract from the Mexican govt.
Who is Baron de Bastrop?
300
This doubled the size of the US and cost 15 million.
What is the La. Purchase?
400
This colonist moved to the Nacogdoches area without the permission of the Spanish government.
Who is Gil Ybarbo?
400
The man who helped form the Republican Army of the North and tried to get help from the US for the revolutionaries.
Who is Gutierrez de Lara?
400
A group of citizens working as a military force.
What is a militia?
400
Anglos came to Texas in great numbers for one main reason.
What is cheap land?
400
The new boundary between Texas and the US established by the Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819.
What is the Sabine River?
500
This filibuster served in the Republican Army of the North. He was killed in the line of duty, but another American took his place.
Who is Lt. Augustus McGee?
500
He said "It is my belief that the people of Mexico should be free to govern themselves..."
Who is Father Hidalgo?
500
The highway that connected Nacogdoches and San Anotnio to Laredo and Saltillo.
What is El Camino Real?
500
the Spanish settlement method is the mission system the Anglo settlement method is_____________
What is a land grant?
500
This is the year that Mexico won its independence.
What is 1821?
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