Regions of Texas
This region of Texas is known for its large cities like Houston and Dallas and is home to thick forests called the Piney Woods.
What is the Coastal Plains?
This Spanish explorer was shipwrecked near Texas in 1528 and later wrote about his journey in La Relación.
Who is Cabeza de Vaca?
This Mexican leader became a dictator and caused unrest in Texas by limiting the rights of settlers.
Who is Santa Anna?
In 1861, Texas voted to leave the United States and join this side during the Civil War.
What is the Confederacy?
This famous cattle trail in Texas ended in Kansas and helped ranchers make a profit after the Civil War.
What is the Chisholm Trail?
This region has rolling hills, many rivers, and is famous for bluebonnets and the city of Austin.
What is the North Central Plains?
This explorer led an expedition into Texas searching for the Seven Cities of Gold.
Who is Francisco Coronado?
This 1836 battle became famous because Texan defenders held off the Mexican army for 13 days. None of the Texas soldiers survived.
What is the Battle of the Alamo?
This was the main issue that led Texas and other Southern states to secede.
What is slavery?
This system allowed farmers to work land owned by someone else in exchange for a share of the crop, often keeping them in debt.
What is sharecropping?
This region is known for its dry, rocky land, oil fields, and cities like Midland and San Angelo.
What is the Great Plains?
This empresario brought the first 300 families from the United States to settle in Texas.
Who is Stephen F. Austin?
This battle lasted only 18 minutes and led to Texas winning its independence.
What is the Battle of San Jacinto?
This amendment to the U.S. Constitution officially ended slavery in 1865.
What is the 13th Amendment?
The expansion of these in Texas helped farmers and ranchers ship cotton and cattle to markets faster and cheaper.
What are railroads?
This region includes mountains, deserts, and Big Bend National Park. It is the smallest and driest region in Texas.
What is the Mountains and Basins region?
This European country established missions in Texas (when it was still part of Mexico) to spread Christianity and claim land.
What is Spain?
After independence, this leader became the first elected president of the Republic of Texas.
Who is Sam Houston?
These laws enforced racial segregation in the South after Reconstruction ended.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This invention ended the era of open range by allowing farmers and ranchers to fence their land cheaply.
What is barbed wire?
This region has fertile soil, farming, and prairies. It is located between the Coastal Plains and the Great Plains.
What is the North Central Plains?
This agreement allowed Anglo settlers to move into Mexican Texas under certain rules, such as becoming Catholic.
What is the empresario system?
This was the original location of the capital city of Texas BEFORE it was moved to Austin.
What is Washington on the Brazos?
Ratified in 1870, this amendment gave African American men the right to vote, although many were later prevented from voting by unfair laws.
What is the 15th Amendment?
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This Texas governor supported railroad regulation and helped strengthen the Texas Railroad Commission to protect farmers and ranchers from unfair shipping rates.
Who was James Hogg?