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25 Cards in this Set
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Who made cattle drives from South Texas to Louisiana?
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Spanish vaqueros
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Bernardo Gutierrez de Lara
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wanted to free Texas from Spanish rule
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Father Hidalgo
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led the independence movement in Mexico
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El Camino Real
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Royal Highway across East and Central Texas
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The new culture of Texas settlers who adopted Spanish customs to fronteir conditions is called........
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Tejano
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Gil Ybarbo
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East Texan leader forced to move to San Antonio
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What was the main cause of failure for Hidalgo's independence movement?
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Mexico City was not captured
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mustanger
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a person who captures and sells wild horses
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What features of daily life in Texas are part of the Spanish legacy?
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Spanish names on streets, rivers, and other geographic features; Spanish ranching system; law system; architecture
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Louis-Michel Aury
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French pirate who aided the Texas revolutionaries
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At San Antonio in 1817, civilians had no extra.....
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supplies
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Sabine River
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The U.S. boundary between Spanish and Louisiana after 1819
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Why was the fort and settlement built by Charles Francois Lallemand abandoned?
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they were ordered to leave
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What became the boundary between Spanish and English territory after the French and Indian War?
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mississippi River
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An early Texas settlement that became a ranching center was.........
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Laredo
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What did Spanish authorities beleive the American filibusters were trying to do?
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gain control of Texas
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What did the leaders of the Republican Army declare after capturing San Antonio in 1813?
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They declared Texas was free and independent
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Calcasieu River
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claimed by Spain as the eastern boundary of Texas before 1819
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Why did Marques de Rubi suggest that Spain abandon most of its Texas missions?
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Spain could not afford to maintain the missions
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San Antonio
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capital of Texas at the end of Spanish rule
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From what country did the U.S. purchase the Louisiana Territory(1803)?
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France
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Antonio Martinez
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last Spanish governor of Texas
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Why did U.S. President James Madison pardon Jean Lafitte?
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he had aided the U.S. army previously
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The Treaty of Paris(1763) gave to Great Britain, Canada and all French land east of the .........
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Mississippi River
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Why were colonists at Nacogdoches free to develop a way of life different than the other Spanish settlements?
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they were isolated from other parts of New Spain
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