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63 Cards in this Set
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Coastal Plains - cities |
Dallas, Houston, Plano |
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Coastal Plains - crops & industries |
rice & seafood |
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North Central Plains - cities |
Ft. Worth, Abilene |
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North Central Plains - crops & industries |
cotton, ranching |
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Great Plains - cities |
Amarillo, Lubbock |
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Great Plains - crops & industries |
farming, cotton |
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Mountains & Basins - cities |
El Paso, Midland |
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Mountains & Basins - crops & industries |
oil, yucca |
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Palo Duro Canyon - location |
Great Plains
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Disputed Territory - location
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between the Rio Grande & the Nueces River |
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Southeastern - tribes |
Caddo, Wichita |
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Pueblo - tribe |
Jumano |
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Gulf Coast - tribes |
Karankawa, Coahuiltecan |
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Plains - tribes |
Apache, Comanche |
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Adobe housing |
used by Pueblo Indians |
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Irrigation |
used by Pueblo Indians |
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buffalo & horses |
used by Plains Indians |
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Gold, Glory, & God |
3 reasons for European Exploration |
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Cabeza de Vaca |
1st European to spend a lot of time in Texas |
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Coronado |
explorer who looked for Cibola and claimed SW America for Spain |
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Spanish missions |
used to convert Native Americans to Christianity |
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filibuster |
person engaging in unauthorized warfare against another country |
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empresario |
land agent responsible for recruiting settlers |
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Philip Nolan |
a filibuster who looked for horses in Texas |
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Father Hidalgo |
Mexican revolutionary |
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James Long |
filibuster who tried to conquer land in Texas |
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Stephen F Austin |
empresario who brought the 1st Anglo colonists to Texas |
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Fredonian Rebellion |
Edwards brothers declared Fredonian Republic |
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Mier Y Teran |
Mexican soldier sent to Texas to investigate Anglo influence |
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Law of April 6, 1830 |
stopped immigration from US and raised customs taxes from US |
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Federalism |
belief that states and federal government should share power |
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Centralism |
belief that federal government should hold all the power |
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Battle of Gonzales |
1st Texas Revolution battle, 1835 |
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Lexington of Texas |
Battle of Gonzales |
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Come & Take It |
slogan from Battle of Gonzales about the cannon |
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Alamo results |
MX won but delayed Santa Anna's march |
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Remember the Alamo |
war cry after fall of the Alamo |
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William Travis |
leader of the Alamo; died fighting |
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James Bowie |
leader of the Alamo; died in sickbed |
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Battle of Coletto Creek |
Fannin and his men captured by Mexicans |
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Goliad Massacre |
Fannin and his men executed by Mexicans |
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Battle of San Jacinto |
last battle of Revolution; Santa Anna captured |
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Treaty of Velasco |
ended Texas Revolution |
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Mrs. Houchin's historical boyfriend |
Sam Houston |
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Mirabeau Lamar |
anti-annexation anti-Indians spent a lot of $ Santa Fe Expedition Council House Fight |
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Sam Houston |
pro-annexation peace w/ Indians reduce debt Mier Expedition awesome |
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Anson Jones |
TX president during annexation |
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date of TX annexation |
1845 |
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date of TX statehood |
1846 |
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Texas was __th state of US |
28 |
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Mexican War dates |
1846-1848 |
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo - terms |
MX gave up TX Mexican Cession US citizenship for people in MX Cession $15 mil to MX $3.25 mil to US citizens to pay MX debt Rio Grande as border |
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Mexican Cession |
land given to US by Mexico; Texas to Pacific Ocean |
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Manifest Destiny |
belief that God's plan was that the US would stretch across the continent |
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Compromise of 1850 |
TX gave up land to US for $10 million |
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Gadsden Purchase |
US purchased strip of land in southwest from MX for $10 million |
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Cibola |
City of Gold Coronado was looking for |
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requirements for Austin's colony |
12 1/2 cents per acre; have good, moral character; convert to Catholicism |
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date of Battle of Gonzales |
Oct. 2, 1835 |
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year of Texas independence |
1836 |
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year of Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
1848 |
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year of Gadsden Purchase |
1853 |
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Texas colonist - definition |
one living in Texas during Mexican rule |
