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32 Cards in this Set
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Alsonso Alvarez de Pineda maps Texas coast (Spain) |
1529 |
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Battle of Velasco- first casualties of the Texas Revolution |
1832 |
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Texas Revolution begins |
1835 |
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Texas Declaration of Indepence signed |
1836 |
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Texas admitted to Union as a state |
1845 |
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Compromise of 1850 |
adjusts state boundries and assumes Texas debts |
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Texas secedes from Union and joins Confederacy |
1861 |
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Union troops land in Galveston, Emancipation Proclamation into effect in Texas, ends slavery |
1865 |
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Texas readmitted to the Union |
1870 |
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Caddo Indians |
farmers, pottery makers and tradesman. Eastern Texas. Ate deer. Sedentary tribe, did not travel with the seasons |
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Apache |
nomadic, lived off buffalo. Would farm part of the year and travel other part |
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Pueblo Indians |
houses built around central open space, outer walls solid without a door, would use ladders to get to the opening at the top. |
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Karankawa Indians |
Very tall, mostly naked, tattoo and piercings |
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Louisianan Purchase |
1803 |
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Era of Good Feelings |
after the war of 1812. Increase in nationalism and patriotism |
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Monroe Doctrine |
US would be neutral in European Wars and European powers wold not establish colonies in the Western Hemisphere |
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The surrender of Vicksburg |
Gave the union control of the Mississippi River and split the confederacy in half |
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Proclamation of 1763 |
prevented colonists from setteling west of the Appalachian Mountains |
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Declaration of Independece |
1776 |
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Constitutional Convention |
Philly 1787 |
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Federalist Papers |
1787-1788 |
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George Washington president |
1789 |
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Stephen Austin |
hired frontiersman to protect Texas colonists. Brought 1st settlers to Texas |
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Sam Houston |
1st Texas president |
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Charles Goodnight |
1st cattleman in the panhandle |
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Mexico attacks Velasco |
6-26-1832 |
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Mexico troops try to take the Gonzales cannon |
10/1835 |
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Siege of Alamo |
2/1836 |
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Texas Rangers established |
1874 |
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The Decree of April 6, 1830 |
Threatened prosperity of Texas colonies |
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Mirabeau Lamar |
Texas president. Santa Fe expedition. Hostages were taken, he wanted to open trade with the territory and to become part of Texas. |
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Major disciplines in the Social Studies |
Anthropology, Archaeology, Civics, Economics, Geography, History, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology |
