People
Regions and Resources
Ranching and Farming
Eras and Booms
wars
100
The general of the Confederate Army.
What is Jefferson Davis
100
The four regions of Texas
What is the Gulf Coastal Plain, The Great Plains, The North Central Plains, and Mountains and Basins.
100
Lariat, ranch, lasso
What is Spanish words that were adapted to the trail rides
100
The time from 1836-1845 when Texas existed as this
What is the independent country of The Republic of Texas
100
The war in which Texas won it's independence
What is The Texas revolution
200
The general who became the first elected president of the Republic of Texas and later served as a governor and state senator.
What is Sam Houston
200
Region that receives the most rainfall and has the largest population
What is the Gulf Coastal Plain
200
People who took care of cattle on ranches and on cattle drives.
What is cowhands or cowboys
200
The time after the cattle drives when the population increased, the population became more urban, and businesses could ship and recieve goods faster.
What is the Railroad boom.
200
The war in which the United States split into two nations fought over slavery and states rights.
What is The Civil War
300
A tejano who helped write the Texas Declaration of Independence and the Republic of Texas constitution
What is Lorenzo de Zavala
300
Region with the highest elevation
What is Mountains and Basins
300
the first woman to drive her own herd of cattle from Texas to Kansas.
What is Lizzie Johnson
300
The investor who found oil at Spindletop
What is Patillo Higgins
300
The war in which the world was split into the Allied and Axis powers and was fought in Europe and Japan
What is World War II
400
first African American Female Texas State Senator who later became a US senator.
What is Barbara Jordan
400
The region with great soil but was not food for farming before irrigation methods were developed
What is The North Central Plains
400
A Texas Rancher whose ranch is still operational and showed that ranching could be a profitable business
What is Richard King
400
The time when oil was discovered in lots of places in Texas and created lots of jobs and inspired new inventions.
What is the oil boom.
400
The time after the Civil War when the government had to rebuild war torn areas and ensure states wrote new constitutions granting rights to freed slaves.
What is Reconstruction
500
A latina singer from the 1920s who helped shape Texas culture
What is Lydia Mendoza
500
The invention that is said to have ended the cattle drives and the open range.
What is barbed wire
500
In the 1960's when minorities began working for equal rights
What is the Civil Rights movement.
500
The war that started in Europe and took the US a few years to join. It is considered the first "Modern War"
What is World War I (WWI)