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29 Cards in this Set
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Comanches |
Central Texas Nomadic (from panhandle to modern day Abilene going as far as Austin |
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Caddo |
East Texas Farmers (eastern Texas to parts of Arkansas and Louisiana) |
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Coahuiltecan |
South Texas Nomadic Accumulation of different tribes shared common language and cultural characteristics (San Antonio, Brownsville, Corpus Christi) |
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Tonkawas |
Gulf Region Enemies with Comanches |
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Karnakawa |
1st Native Americans to come into contact w/ Europeans
1st to suffer from disease, European attack, and slavery |
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Alonso Alvarez de Pineda |
spanish explorer who mapped the coastline |
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Cabeza de Vaca |
1st European to explore the lands of Texas |
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Francisco Vasquez de Coronado |
Began search fro mythical "Seven Cities of Gold" (Cibola) Arizoona, New Mexico, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas February 23, 1540 |
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Sieur de La Salle |
found 1st permanent colony in Texas (Fort St. Louis) in 1685 |
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Mexican War of Independence |
1821 independence from Spain |
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Constitution of Mexico |
ratified in 1824 liberal policy of immigration that allowed any head of household, regardless of immigrant status or race, to claim Mexican land. Policy was to encourage settlers to fight Comanches for control of northern land. |
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Moses Austin |
1822 secured an empresarial grand which was a grant from the Mexican government that allowed an individual to bring colonist to settle land, allowed three hundred settlers from America to settle in Tx. |
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Stephen F. Austin |
Son of Moses Austin Took over the Old Three Hundred after his father died |
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Old Three Hundred |
300 families represented the 1st immigration wave of Anglo-Americans into Tx |
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Battle of Gonzales |
Lexington of Texas 1st military encounter between British and American colonists. |
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March 2, 1836 |
Texas Declaration of Independence was signed and the Republic of Texas was formed. |
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March 6 |
Santa Anna attacks the Alamo killing approximately 180-250 defenders including William Travis, Davy Crocket, and Jim Bowie |
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March 20 |
the army of Colonel James Fannin surrenders to Santa Anna and 7 days later is massacred |
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Santa Anna |
intended to crush Texan rebellion by murdering the defenders of the Alamo and the army of Colonel Fannin but the Texan army was invigorated by the heinous act...future battle Texans soldiers cried "Remember Goliad! Remember the Alamo!"
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Texas Revolution |
April 21, 1836 Sam Houston led a surprise attack on General Santa Anna at the Battle of Jacinto won and captured San Anna |
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Texas in the Union |
December 29, 1845 annexed by the US at the 28th state |
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Modern day Texas |
modern boundaries established after the Comprise of 1850 where TX sold a large portion of the land to the federal government in exchange for $10 million in US bonds |
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Thornton Affair |
April 25, 1846 Mexican miltary force engaged a US patrol killing 16 US soldiers because Mexico found the US annexation of and military occupation invalid |
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
February 2, 1848 ending the Mexican-American War |
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February 1, 1861 |
state of TX seceded from the Union and joined the Confederate States of America Robert E. Lee referred TX as the storehouse of the Confederacy |
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After the Civil War
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TX began to specialize in cotton and cattle.
Railroad eventually came to TX cattle, cotton, and the forestry industry thrived Dallas and Fort Worth became large trading centers for good as TX would ship cattle, cotton, and wood throughout the US TX was quick was to recover after the Civil War due abundance of grazing, farm land, and pine trees in East Texas |
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January 10, 1901 |
oil derrick Spindletop struck oil and began producing over 100,000 barrels of oil a day, overnight becoming the most production oil derrick in the world oil industry of TX would become a staple of the TX economy throughout the 20th century and allow the state to develop an infrastructure conducive to these businesses |
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6 Flags over Texas |
6 nations that ruled over Texas -Spain -France -Mexico -Republic of Texas -United States -the Confederacy |
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Lyndon B. Johnson |
late 1950s succeeds in his efforts to establish a major section of the new NASA Space Program in TX later became President of the US after the assassination John F. Kennedy in Dallas in 1963. |
