Texas Colonial
When Spain entered the Americas, it was in search of three things: ___________, ____________, and ____________.
What was God, Gold , and Glory?
What country did Texas belong to before it was an independent country?
What was Mexico?
What did Texas agriculture depend largely on before the Civil War?
- What was slavery?
These three amendments were created to ensure freedom and rights of recently freed African Americans.
What were the 13, 14, and 15th amendments?
This woman from Houston was Texas' first African American female senator.
Who was Barbara Jordan?
What was the purpose of missions?
What was to convert Indigenous people to Catholicism?
How did the Battle of the Alamo affect the Texas Revolution?
What was: it was a Texan loss that motivated them during the battle of San Jacinto.
True or false: All Texans owned slaves and supported slavery.
What is FALSE.
Though most Texans did not own slaves, they still considered slavery to be an important part of Texas' economy.
These laws were created to limit the rights of recently freed African Americans in the South.
What were Jim Crow laws?
This group, created in 1929 in Corpus Christi, fought for the rights of Mexican Americans after decades of anti-Mexican violence in Texas.
Who is LULAC?
What is one way in which Native Americans were affected by colonization?
*Correct answer determined by Teacher*
What was the final battle of the Texas Revoltion?
What was the Battle of San Jacinto?
What was the Confederacy?
True or false: Segregation ensured equal and fair separation based on race.
This group, the nation's oldest, fights for the rights of African Americans and were a major organization during the Civil Rights movement.
What is the NAACP?
Which of these groups were NOT a significant presence in Texas during the colonial period?
Spanish
French
British
Indigenous
Who were the British?
Who was the Mexican general who lost to General Sam Houston at the Battle of San Jacinto?
Who was Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana?
The day when Texas' slaves were told they were now free from slavery was recently turned into a federal holiday. What is this day known as?
What is Juneteenth?
This branch of government was in charge of creating the laws and amendments of the Reconstruction Era.
What was the legislative branch?
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 are both pieces of legislature that were signed into law by this head of the executive branch:
Who was Lyndon B. Johnson?
What played a significant factor in the decrease of the Indigenous population?
What was:
-disease
What is the correct order of the Texas Revoltion?
1. Battle of San Jacinto
2. Battle of the Alamo
3. Sam Houston captures Santa Ana; treaty of Velasco is signed.
4. Battle of Gonzales
5. Texas becomes a republic.
What is 4, 2, 1, 3, 5?
What were some of the ways Texas was affected by the end of the Civil War?
What is:
- Confederacy Loss
- Texas rejoins the United States
- Much of Texas' infrastructure is damaged
- Economic losses
- Slaves freed in Texas (Juneteenth)
What is one way the executive branch checked the power of the legislative branch during the reconstruction era?
The executive branch had to approve and sign off on legislation created by the legislative branch. If vetoed, the legislative branch could vote again; if there was a majority vote, the veto would be overruled.
How did Diane Nash and John Lewis bring about change in society?
Both these individuals were devoted to fighting for civil rights for African Americans through the use of Non-Violent protest.