The Lone Star State
If you came upon the Texas state bird holding the state flower perched in the state tree, what would you be seeing?
A mockingbird with a bluebonnet in a pecan tree.
He was one of the 1st and most famous Spanish conquistadores.
Hernando Cortez
A Spanish word for fort.
Presidio
The Father of Texas.
Stephen F. Austin
The town where the fight for Texas liberty began and all with a small canon and a "Come and Take It!" flag.
Gonzales, Texas
The Come and Take It Flag
or
The Battle of the Alamo
The Come and Take It Flag
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin. What did Joseph Glidden invent?
Barbed wire
Fill in the blank:
_______ the Texas flag: I pledge ________ to thee, Texas, one state under _____, one and ___________.
Honor, allegiance, God, indivisible
In 1519, this European explorer was the first to set foot on Texas soil.
Alonzo Alvarez de Pineda
When 50 Jumano Indians appeared at the monastery in New Mexico, who did they say appeared to them and told them to come and ask for more teaching?
The Lady in Blue (Maria de Jesus de Agreda)
President Thomas Jefferson made this huge land purchase from France in 1803.
The Louisiana Purchase
On February 24, 1936, finding the Texians encamped inside, Santa Anna and his army arrived here and laid siege to it for almost 2 weeks.
The Alamo
Texas becomes 28th state in the US
or
A red "No Quarter" flag is raised on the San Fernando Cathedral and the song "El Deguello" is played
A red "No Quarter" flag is raised on the San Fernando Cathedral and the song "El Deguello" is played
List the 3 branches of the Texas Government.
Legistlative, Executive, & Judicial
Name 6 out of the 11 major Texas rivers.
Red, Sabine, Neches, Trinity, Brazos, Colorado, Guadalupe, San Antonio, Nueces, Pecos, Rio Grande
This "Head of a Cow" explorer made detailed observations in his journal of his encounters with native cultures, describing their land and lifestyles.
Cabeza de Vaca
This National Historic Landmark in Goliad, TX is the most fought-over fort in Texas History. Nine flags have flown over it.
Presidio La Bahia
Phillip Nolan was considered this. A "freebooter"--a sort of pirate on land .
A filibuster
The Colonel in charge of the Texians at the Alamo who sent out a desperate letter ending in "Victory or Death!"
Colonel William B. Travis
Louisiana Purchase
or
The Runaway Scrape
Louisiana Purchase
Texas was a Republic for (?) years before becoming the (?) state in the Union?
Texas was a Republic for 9 years before becoming the 28th state in the Union.
Name 5 out of 10 Texas Indian Tribes.
Apache, Atakapa, Caddo, Coahuiltecan, Comanche, Jumano, Karankawa, Kiowa, Tonkawa, Wichita
This is from the Spanish words meaning "son of something of substance."
Hidalgo
Before it was called The Alamo, the name of this mission was ______ after the feast day on which it was found.
Elected President of Mexico in 1833, but in 1834 he repealed the Mexican Constitution and made himself dictator.
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
The Colonel in charge of the 341 men who were massacred on Palm Sunday. He had 3 wishes before he was executed.
Colonel James Fannin
Battle of San Jacinto
or
Goliad Massacre
Goliad Massacre
List 3 out of 4 major cattle trails out of Texas.
Chisholm, Goodnight-Loving, The Great Western, Sedalia or Shawnee
This "Staked Plains" area, also called the Caprock, refers to the southern end of the Great Plains and is a high, flat mesa covering 32,000 square miles in northwest Texas and into New Mexico.
Llano Estacado
This French explorer established the 1st colony in Texas when he missed the mouth of the Mississippi by 500 miles landing at Matagorda Bay instead. He built Fort St. Louis.
Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de LaSalle
List the 5 missions in San Antonio.
San Jose, San Juan, Concepcion, Espada, San Antonio de Valero (the Alamo)
The flag of the Gutiérrez-Magee Expedition and of the first, short-lived Republic of Texas was what single-colored banner of ?
Green
Santa Anna's brother-in-law.
General Cos
William B. Travis draws line in sand
or
America at war with Britain
America at war with Britain
These guards primarily controlled hostilities with Mexico.
Border guards