Texas Geography
The four major geographic regions of Texas.
What are Mountains and Basins, Great Plains, North Central Plains, and Coastal Plains?
These American Indians lived in dome-shaped houses and farmed in East Texas.
Who are the Caddo?
The first European to explore the Texas coast in 1519.
Who is Alonso Álvarez de Pineda?
Spanish religious communities built to convert Native Americans.
What are missions?
The first Anglo empresario to settle families in Texas.
Who is Stephen F. Austin?
Region where you’d find the most rainfall and largest population.
What is the Coastal Plains?
This nomadic Plains group relied heavily on buffalo.
Who are the Comanche?
He was shipwrecked and lived among Texas Indians.
Who is Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca?
Towns that grew around missions were called this.
What are settlements or pueblos?
Law passed by Mexico in 1824 that created states including Coahuila y Tejas.
What is the Mexican Constitution of 1824
This river forms the border between Texas and Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande?
These Gulf Coast natives were nomadic and lived off fish and small game.
Who are the Karankawa?
Spanish explorer who searched for the Seven Cities of Gold.
Who is Francisco Vázquez de Coronado?
This system allowed settlers to receive land and labor from Native people.
What is the encomienda system?
This law limited immigration from the U.S. to Texas in 1830.
What is the Law of April 6, 1830?
The region that includes El Paso and is the driest in Texas.
What is the Mountains and Basins region?
This tribe was known for farming and pottery in the Mountains and Basins region.
Who are the Jornada?
Goal of most early Spanish explorers in the Americas.
What is to find wealth and spread Christianity?
Why many Spanish missions failed in Texas.
What is Native resistance, disease, or lack of support?
A reason Mexico invited Anglo settlers to Texas.
What is to populate and defend the territory?
Geographic features that influenced Spanish mission placement.
What are rivers and fertile land?
One reason different American Indian groups had distinct lifestyles.
What is geographic location or environment?
This explorer’s failed expedition inspired others to explore Texas.
Who is La Salle?
Spain’s main goals in colonizing Texas.
What are God, Gold, and Glory?
Term for a land agent who brought settlers to Texas under Mexican rule.
What is an empresario?