Colonization
An empresario who brought 300 families to Texas and is named the "Father of Texas"
Who was Stephen F. Austin?
The famous battle that happened after 12 days of attacks in 1836.
What is the Battle of the Alamo?
The industry that exploded in Texas after the civil war and involved drives to Kansas.
What is the cattle industry?
What is the Spindletop Gusher?
Severe economic crisis that began in 1929.
What was the great depression?
Spanish religous settlements to spread Catholicism and increase control of Texas
What are missions?
The Mexican general and president that led his army during the Texas Revolution.
Who was Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna?
The famous trail that moved Texas cattle to Kansas railroads.
The city near Spindletop that became an important center for the oil industry.
What is Beaumont?
Environmental disaster that brought huge dust storms and destroyed farms in the 1930s.
What was the Dust Bowl
The country controlled Texas after winning independence in 1821
What is Mexico?
The Texan general who defeated Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto.
Who is Sam Houston?
The invention that helped ranchers fence land and changed the open range system.
What is barbed wire?
This invention became more common because oil helped fuel it and roads expanded across Texas.
What is the Automobile (car)?
Texas born soldier who became one of the most honored soldiers in WWII.
The system where the Mexican Government gave land grants to people to bring settlers to Texas
What was the empresario system?
The final battle of the Texas revolution that only lasted 18 minutes.
What is the Battle of San Jacinto?
Transport systems that helped move goods across Texas.
What are railroads?
The man who successfully drilled the Spindletop oil strike.
Who was Anthony F. Lucas?
During WWII many Texan factories increased production to build these for the war effort.
What are military supplies, weapons, ships, and airplanes?
The law that ended US immigration to Texas and increases tensions between Texans and Mexico.
What was the Law of April 6, 1830
The declaration signed on March 2nd, 1836 separating Texas from Mexico.
What is the Texas Declaration of Independence?
The two cattlemen who became famous for building large ranching empires.
Who are Charles Goodnight and Richard King?
This invention became more common because oil helped fuel it.
During the Great Depression homeless communities made of shacks were named this.
What are Hoovervilles?