This river creates the border between Texas and Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande?
100
This is a Spanish word that means conquerer.
What is conquistador?
100
In 1833, Mexico elected this dictator as president.
Who is Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna?
100
Many people in the United States did not want Texas to become a state because of these two issues.
What are debt and slavery?
100
This empresario was given permission by the Mexican government to start a colony and became known as "The Father of Texas".
Who is Stephen F. Austin?
200
This state plant of Texas displays colorful flowers in spring and summer.
What is the prickly pear cactus?
200
These four U.S. states border Texas.
What are New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas & Louisiana?
200
This country sent Christopher Columbus on an expedition to explore Asia, but he reached an island near Florida instead.
What is Spain?
200
These first two battles of the Texas Revolution took place one week apart in October 1835.
What are the battles of Gonzales and Goliad?
200
This man was president of the United States when the resolution was passed to make Texas part of the US.
Who is James K. Polk?
200
This man commanded the Texas army and served as both president and governor of Texas.
Who is Sam Houston?
300
This small mammal of Texas uses its sharp sense of smell to find food.
What is the armadillo?
300
Texas is in this region of the United States.
What is the Southwest region?
300
In 1528, this conquistador survived a storm and landed near Galveston Island after weeks at sea.
Who is Cabeza de Vaca?
300
After losing the battle at the Alamo and Houston ordering his men to retreat, Texans fled in great numbers to the United States in what became known as this.
What is the Runaway Scrape?
300
This document was written to establish laws about how the newly annexed state of Texas would be run.
What is the Constitution of 1845?
300
This woman was a non-combatant during the battle of the Alamo.
Who is Susanna Dickinson?
400
This mission was the site of a battle where fighters for Texas independence all died fighting off a large group of Mexican soldiers.
What is the Alamo?
400
This ocean creates the southeast border of Texas.
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
400
A settlement established by the Spanish government that taught Catholic beliefs and work skills to native people.
What is a mission?
400
These two phrases were shouted by Texas soldiers as they attacked the Mexican army during the battle of San Jacinto.
What are "Remember the Alamo" and "Remember Goliad"?
400
A dispute over land between the US and Mexico led to a war known as this.
What is the Mexican War?
400
This man was one of Texas's best-known cattle ranchers and was important to the growth of the cattle industry in Texas.
Who was Charles Goodnight?
500
This monument is located on the site where the last battle of the Texas Revolution was fought, which led to independence.
What is the San Jacinto Monument?
500
These long, narrow islands lie just off the coast and protect the mainland from the force of ocean waves.
What are barrier islands?
500
In 1694, this French explorer landed on the shore of Matagorda Bay off the Texas coast.
Who is La Salle?
500
On May 14, 1836, Texas president David Burnet and General Santa Anna met to sign this treaty which ended the war.
What is the Treaty of Velasco?
500
The period of rebuilding after the Civil War was known as this.
What is reconstruction?
500
This man drew "a line in the sand" and asked his men who would fight with him at the battle of the Alamo.