All Texas History Stuff I have Learned

4 Regions

1

Name 1 of the four texas regions

Coastal Plains

North Central Plains

Great Plains 

Mountains and Basins 

2

What is the climate of the Great Plains?

Dry, summer's hot, not a good growing season

3

What is the climate of the mountains and basins?

7 inches of rain a year, and hot days, cold nights

4

What is the climate of the Coastal Plains

55 inches of rain annually 

6

North central plains climate

Not as wet, summers are hotter and winters are colder

Texas Natives

1

What tribe uses abode homes

Tigua 

2

known for pottery

Wichita

3

lived on the sabine river

caddo

4

made pit houses later transformed into adobe homes

jumano

6

what did the comanche hunt

Buffalo

Texas Revolution

1

Who is the Mexican President

Santa Anna

2

Where was Steven F Austin in the beginning of the Revolution?

In Jail

3

Who wrote give me victory or give me deatH?

William B Travis

4

Who led the troops at the Alamo

James Bowie

6

What was the name of the final battle of the Texas Revolution, where Texas forces defeated Santa Anna's army?

Battle of San Jacinto

Civil War

1

What were the 2 sides fighting in the Civil War

The Confederacy and the Union

2

What caused the Civil War? (1 reason)

fight for state rights and slavery 

If you say both then you get 3 points instead of 2

3

Was the Confederacy North or South? and was the union North or south? (say BOTH)

Confederacy = North

Union = South

4

What did the union want?

Slavery 

6

What did the confederacy want?

Abolish slavery and have state rights

Vocabulary

1

Revolt means?

to fight in a violent way against the rule of a leader of goverment 

2

What is an Anglo?

A white, English-speaking settler from the US.

3

what does rural mean

away from the city

4

urban meaning

a city

6

compass rose

symbol on a map thar shows cardinal directions