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Identify the four geographic regions of Texas. List their boundaries and identify the characteristic of each region
- 1. North central, border Caprock Escarpment
- 2. Mountains and Basins, dry
- 3 Great Plains, border Caprock Escarpment
- 4. Coastal Plains, fishing, largest cities
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Identify the four culture regions of Texas. List the cultures that lived in the regions and characteristics of the people such as housing, food, way of life, etc.
- 1. Plains culture, buffalo, nomads, teepees
- 2. Southeastern culture, farmers, doomed shaped houses
- 3. Pueblo culture, Adobe homes, farmers, lived in Mountains and Basins
- 4. Gulf cultures, nomadic, huts
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what event initiated the Columbian Exchange and began the Age of Contact?
Columbus sailed to the New World
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Name two important events that occurred in 1492
- 1. Reconquista in Spain
- 2. Columbus sailed to the New World
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Name two important events that occurred in 1492
- 1. Cortes conquers the Aztecs
- 2. Pineda maps the Texas coast
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Which explorer defeated the Aztecs?
Cortes
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name three things that made it easy to defeat the Aztecs
- 1. Some Native Americans joined the Spanish as allies
- 2. Spanish had better weapons
- 3. Diseases
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describe in a few words each of the eras we've studied so far
- 1. Natural Texas and its People, geography and and Native peoples
- 2. Age of Contact, Spanish explorers come to the New World
- 3. Mexican National, Mexico gains independence
- 4. Spanish Colonial, missions and trying to change/conquer the Native People
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What was the purpose of the missions in Texas?
- 1. Teach the Spanish way of life
- 2. Teach them the Catholic faith
- 3. Teach them to farm and ranch
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what specific event caused the Spanish to build missions in Texas?
LaSalle established Fort St Louis
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what are the filibusters?
Adventurers who tried to take over countries without their government's approval
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name the filibusters
- 1. Nolan
- 2. Long
- 3. Gutierrez-Magee
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identify important individuals in the Age of Exploration
communes, Cortes, Pineda, Cabeza de Vaca, Coronado
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identify important individuals in the Mexican Independence
Iturbide
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identify important individuals in the Empresarios
Austin, DeWitt, DeLeon, Edwards
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what is the plan of Iguala? list for things that it says
- 1. Independent from Spain
- 2. People would be equal/united
- 3. People would follow Roman Catholic faith
- 4. Constitutional monarchy
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What was the Louisiana Purchase?
USA bought Louisiana territory from France. It doubled the size of the USA
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name the reasons that Mexico sought independence from Spain
- 1. Class system
- 2. Economy
- 3. Ruled from Europe
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why did Stephen F Austin chose the area he chose for biz colony?
Fertile soil, rivers, rainfall, climate, wild game, trees, away from Comanches
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what did the Mexican government expect out of its new settlers? Name three things
- 1. Loyalty to Mexico
- 2. Follow the Roman Catholic faith
- 3. Be law abiding citizens
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list three cultural differences between Mexican culture and American culture
- 1. Form of government
- 2. Religion
- 3. Language
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what did the Law of April 6, 1830 state? Why did it anger Texans?
Send trips to Texas, end slavery, So immigration from US, increase trade with Mexico, collect taxes
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what did the Turtle Bayou Resolutions state?
Loyalty to Mexico, wanted Santa Anna as leader, wanted government to follow the Constitution of 1824
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what happened at the Battle of Gonzales?
Mexico wanted the cannon they had give th fought industry's. Texans wouldn't give it up. Short fight. Texans won. Mexican soldiers retreated to San Antonio
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