What is the significance of the year 1519?
What did the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo state? (at least 2)
1. Rio Grande is official border between Texas and Mexico
2. Mexico gives up claim to the land known as the "Mexican Cession"
3. Ends the Mexican-American War
4. Mexican citizens that lived in the Mexican Cession can choose to stay and become American citizens
Who is Stephen F Austin?
He was the first Empresario to bring the first 300 Anglo families to Texas
Annexation means_
To join an existing territory
Region home to Dallas
Coastal Plains
1836
Compromise of 1850
I wrote the famous "Victory or Death" letter
William. B. Travis
Social studies term that means "to give freedom'"
Emancipation
Plains tribes:bison::Gulf tribes: ___________
1821 is significant in Texas history because...
It was the year that Mexico got its independence from Spain
What document had to be rewritten in 1876 after the Civil war to remove slavery and include new amendments?
Texas Constitution
What was George Childress' contribution in Texas History?
He wrote the Texas declaration of Independence
Suffrage
Describe the elevation as you travel east to west across Texas
Elevation increases
What is the significance of 1718
The year San Antonio was founded
Why did Mexico pass the State Colonization Law of 1825? What did it create?
They needed to populate Texas, it created the Empresario system to bring Anglo families to settle Texas.
Which Texas Republic president sought to expand Texas and push the tribes out?
Mirabeau Lamar
What does the word legislation mean?
It means a Law
Why were the Plains tribes nomadic?
They had to follow the bison herds
Texas annexation
1845
-Set up a republic form of government
-Set catholicism as official religion
-Created state of Coahuila y Tejas
Mexican Constitution of 1824
I was a Texas Governor and served as the President of Texas A&M University
Lawrence Sullivan Ross
Social studies term that means to "separate from an existing territory"
Name the culture group and region shown in the painting
Gulf tribe in the coastal plains