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Period: Jan 1, 1400 to
Age of exploration
A. People explored the new world for 3 things. God, gold, and glory B. Columbus was looking for a passage to Asia for gold but ran into America C.most explorers were from Europe D. A conquistador is a person who try's to get as much land as possible by claiming or taking over C. Hernán Cortés took over the Tenochtitlan -
Jan 1, 1517
Pineda's map
Pineda went to Texas and made a map of the gulf coast of witch is the first texas document. and he allso figured out that florda is not a island -
Jan 1, 1528
Cabeza de Vaca shiprecked
A. the Han and Capoque American Indians captured him
b. many natives died from diseases
c. ??? -
Apr 22, 1540
Coronado sets out for Cibola
a. cibola is thought to be a golden city
b. he thought it was there because of a jurnal he read.
c. they never found cibola
d. they found a native tribe where mexico city would be. -
La Salle explores
a. france is challangeing spain for texas
b. La Salle discoverd the Mississippi river -
Fort St. Louis founded
a. 400 miles miles off the cost of texas missing the Mississippi.
b. La Salle founded Fort St. louis
c. Missed its main target meaing that they were missing things that they needed like fresh water and food. and they lost the last ship meaning they cant get supplys.
d. La salle Died from 5 mutineers that fired at him and killed him. -
Marques de Rub
a. Rubi's mission was to inspect texas to see how the villages are.
b. mexico sent him
c. he suggusted that spain reorganize its frountier defences and that a war of extermination agance lipan apaches started. -
Philip Nolan Expedition
a. a filibuster is a person who wages a unofficial war on a country
b. father hidalgo and jean la fitte
c. phillip nolan is a man that captured horses for liveing and was sent out of texas where he captured them. so he went back as a filibuster. -
The Louisana Purchase
a. the louisiana purchase ment that france gets 15 million dollars and the us gets a huge strip of land (530,000,000 acres)
b. spain, france, united states -
Mexico gains Independenc
a. spain
b. constitution of cadiz -
Moses austin asks permission for colony
a. the spanish granted austin permission to do that because it would incress their ecomoney and they would all follow mexican rules
b. moses died before he could finish his dream -
Stephen F. Austin Establishes His Colony
a. a person who is granted permission to set a colony on mexican land
b. between the Brazos and Colorado River
c. they had to all be christan, they could not be from the army, and it starts with 300 familys
d. people who fallowed mexican rules and lived in peace
e. some challenges were that you need to build a house, get food, get water, keep warm when cold, dont die.
f. David G. burnet's colony and Martin De Leon's colony -
Mission San Francisco founded
a. The purpus of a mission is to convert the population of the area the mission is in to another coulture.
b. A mission leader is called a Missanry
c. The Spanish
d. calthlic
e. No most missions failed
f. most missions failed because the indians dident want to be converted, most indians died before being converted, and indian attacks.
g. Protective walls -
Fredonian Rebellion
a. to seprate from mexico
b. mexico
c. the rebellion ended when mexico surroned them and killed most of them off. the remainder ran away to US. -
Law of april 6th
a. the law was made to stop the flooding of immigrated form the united states. made Empresario contracts have more mexicans and more strict. had more mexican immigrations. less slaves, New forts were not alloud, and import taxes were increesed when traded through the US -
Convention of 1833
a. to make peace
b.a political gatherring of settlers -
Austin Arrested
a. for Treason. (he just asked to change a few laws not protest)
b. he changed his mind about war agance mexico -
Battle of Gonzales
a. it was fought over a cannon
b. texans won
c. "COME AND TAKE IT" -
Convention of 1836
a. the texas constituion and the texas declaration of Independence -
The Runaway Scrape
a. east
b. to out run the mexican army
c. because the mexican army was running after them.
d. thought he was a coward. -
The Alamo Falls
a. david crockett, James Bowie, and William Travis.
b. 100 defenders and 1500 attackers
c. because he was attacked
d. mexican -
Goliad Massacre
A. in Goliad
B. Santa Ann
C. 300 died -
Battle of San Jacinto
a. "REMBER THE ALAMO!" and "REMBER GOLIAD!"
b.630, 208 wounded, 730 captured on mexican side and 9 deaths with 30 wounded on the texan side.
c. YELLED trying to get controll but no one lisioned
d. the texans DESTROYED them. -
Mier y Teran Report
a. to loosen united state's hold of texas
b. Mier y teran was sent so that mexico can know more about how texas is and what they should do about any situation.
c. the remmondations were included in law of april 6th and said that they should increese trade with mexico and encourage more settlers from mexico and europe -
San Antonio de Bexar Siege
a. a siege is to take over
b. mexico
c. texas