Texas History

By Rxm6073
  • Jan 1, 1400

    Age of exploration begins

    A. God gold and Glory
    B.Trying to find a passage to the west coast to trade spices
    C.Spain
    D.conqueror
    E.cortez
  • Jan 1, 1519

    Pineda Maps Texas Coast

    A. Went on a ship to Florida and figured it out it wasn't an island. Also made the first document of the gulf coast.
  • Nov 6, 1528

    Cabeza De Vaca Shipwrecks

    A.Karankawa
    B.diseases
    C.they thought their where hidden hints about the seven cities of Cibola
  • La Salle lands in Texas

    A.France
    B.Mississippi river
  • Fort St. Louise founded

    A. Texas
    B.Robert Cavelier de La Salle.
    C.they couldn't choose where to put it, and the crops wouldn't grow
  • Mission San Francisco Founded

    A.convert, teach Spanish and get them a job
    B. friar
    C.Spain
    D.Catholics
    E.no
    F.Indians attacked and wouldn't convert
    G.Emprasarios
  • Mier y Teran Report

    A. Law of April 6th stop the United States from acquiring Texas. And close trade ties with Mexico
    B.to figure out the number and attitudes of the Americans living there.
    C.stop the United States from acquiring Texas. close trade ties with Mexico, and the encouragement of more Mexican and European settlers. which also called for the prohibition of slavery
  • Philip Nolan Expedition

    A.Military adventurer who wanted Texas to be separated from Spain.
    B.John Lafitte, Peter E Bean,
    C. A pirate
  • The Louisana Purchase

    A. It caused disagreements
    B. Great Britain, Spain, France p
  • Mexico Gains Independence

    A.Spain
    B.the constitution of Mexico
    C.Coahuila
  • Moses Austin Asks Permission for Colony

    A.they needed population
    B.he died
  • Fredonian Rebellion

    A.Secede from Mexico
    B.A vigilante group harassed his settlers
    C.they pretty much fired the Edward brothers and kicked them out
  • Stephen F. Austin Establishes His Colony

    A.An empresario was a person who had been granted the right to settle on Mexican land
    B.East Texas
    C.they all had to be Catholics
    D.The Old Three Hundred were the 297 people granted, made up of families and some groups of unmarried men
    E
  • Stephen F. Austin Establishes His Colony

    A.An empresario was a person who had been granted the right to settle on Mexican land
    B.East Texas
    C.they all had to be Catholics
    D.The Old Three Hundred were the 297 people granted, made up of families and some groups of unmarried men
    E. Mexican Authorities were refusing to recognize SFAs colony
    F.Delion, Hayden
  • Law of April 6th,1830 passes

    A.
    I.no US immigrants
    II.canceled all unfulfilled emprasarial grants
    III.Encouraged Mexican and European immigrants.
    IV. Slave could no longer be brought to Mexico
    V.Established Forts
    VI. Tax all Us imports
  • Austin Arrested

    A.he was going against the law of April 6
    B.
  • Convention of 1833

    A. independent State of Texas in the Federal Mexican union
    B.Stephen F. Austin
  • San Antonio de Bexar Siege

    A.military operation in which enemy forces surround a town or building.
    B.Mexico
    C.Texas
  • Battle of Gonzales

    A.Texian Rebellions
    B.Mexico
    C.come and take it
  • Convention of 1836

    A.Texas Declaration of Independence and the constitution of the republic of Texas
  • The Alamo Falls

    A.Crockett,James Bowie, William B Travis
    B.115, and 8000 Mexicans
    C.he thought they weren't ready yet
    D.Mexicans
  • Goliad Massacre

    A.battle of Coleto Creek
    B.Mexican president and general Antonio López de Santa Anna
    C.39
  • The Run Away Scrape

    A.towards San Antonio
    B.Get away from Santa Anna's troops
    C.Santa Anna
    D.Stupid and scared
  • Battle of San Jacinto

    A.REMEMBER THE ALAMO! And REMEMBER GOLIAD!
    B.182-257
    C.watched everyone fight then pretended to be a soldier
    D.Sam Houstons
  • Coronado sets out for Cibola

    A. 7 cities of gold
    B.Because Cabeza De Vaca said that.
    C. Doesn't exist
    D.The Grand Canyon
  • Marques de Rubi inspects Texas

    A.inspection tour
    B.management of presidios
    C.that Spain reorganize its frontier defenses along a cordon of fifteen presidios, each about 100 miles apart and that only San Antonio and Santa Fe be maintained