Texas Regions
This is the number of natural regions in Texas
What is 4?
Known for their tall height and for being hunter-gatherers living along the Texas coast.
Who are the Karankawas?
In 1492, this European sailed west, across the Atlantic Ocean, to find an all-water route to China, and reached an island in what is now the Bahamas.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
The Spanish used this system to claim land and to convert American Indians to Catholicism.
What is the Mission System?
Or What is a Mission?
Military adventurers who tried to stir up rebellion, such as Philip Nolan, were known as these.
What are filibusters?
The Piney Woods and the Rio Grande valley are subregions of this Texas region.
What is the Gulf Coast Plain?
This group of Texas Indians lived in the area we live in today (Laredo), and did not build permanent houses - they were nomads.
Who are the Coahuiltecans?
In 1519, this European founded the first Spanish settlement in what is now Mexico at Villa Rica de Vera Cruz. In 1521 he defeated the Aztec Empire.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
The Spanish built these, known as military bases, to protect the Missions.
What is a presidio?
In 1810 this Mexican priest called for an end to rule by governing peninsulares in his Grito de Dolores.
Who is Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla?
Ranchers raise cattle, horses, and sheep in this region.
What is the Central Plains?
This group of Texas Indians moved into eastern Texas and became expert farmers, and used the agricultural technique of crop rotation.
Who are the Caddo?
In 1519, this European explorer, and his crew, were the first to see the Texas coast, and mapped the northern Gulf of Mexico.
Who is Alonso Alvarez de Pineda?
This French explorer entered the Gulf of Mexico to establish a colony near the mouth of the Mississippi River, but became lost and landed at Matagorda Bay on the Texas coast in 1685.
Who is Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle?
This Mexcian General joined forces with Vicente Guerrero to defeat Spanish forces in 1821, and later declared himself Emperor of Mexico.
Who is Agustin de Itrurbide?
This region includes the Texas Panhandle, and a geographic feature of this region includes the Palo Duro Canyon.
What is the High Planis?
This group lived in villages along the Rio Grande in houses built out of adobe bricks, and used the overflow of the river to grow corn and other crops.
Who are the Jumanos?
This European, along with a North African named Estenanico, was stranded and worked as a servant, trader, and healer for the Karankawa Indians.
Who is Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca?
This Spaniard established 24 settlements along the Rio Grande, including Laredo in 1755.
Who is Jose de Escandon?
This change in Mexican policy banned U.S. immigration to Texas and made it illegal for American settlers to bring more slaves into Texas.
What is the Law of April 6, 1830?
Big Bend National Park, and the highest point in Texas, 8,749 feet above sea level at Guadalupe Peak, is located in this region.
What is the Mountains and Basins region?
This group, including the Lipan and Mescaleros, was skilled at house riding and hunted buffalo. By the early 1800s the more powerful Comanches had driven them into Mexico and New Mexico.
Who are the Apache?
Spanish exploration greatly changed the lives of American Indians in Texas, through the spread of diseases. This transfer of plants, animals, and diseases is known as this.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
In 1766 Marques de Rubi recommended that the Spanish population in East Texas should be moved to this city established in 1718 by Martin de Alarcon.
What is San Antonio?
After the fall of the Alamo and the Goliad Massacre, Texas forces were still able to launch a surprise attack on the Mexican troops at San Jacinto, defeat Santa Anna army, and forced him to sign this document to end the Texas Revolution.
What is the Treaty of Velasco?