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Texas History Test#1 Review Flashcards

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Pecos River

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River of the cows, or “salty water”

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Red River

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Northern Texas, US/Mexican border for the Adams-Otis treaty until the annexation of Texas

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Sabine River

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Eastern boundary for the Adams-Otis treaty until the annexation of Texas

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Brazos River

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  • “arms of God”
  • longest river in Texas
  • majority of population lived around it in the 20’s and 30’s
  • bad about flooding until dams were built
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Colorado River

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  • means “redish”
  • originally named the Brazos but a map maker fucked up and switched the two and it stuck
  • Lindon B Johnson’s big project to build dams and provide electricity in the hill country
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Guadalupe River

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  • flooding issues in modern day Texas

- New Braunfels (German town)

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Rio Grande River (Rio Bravo)

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Where the first thanksgiving took place

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Arlington

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  • 7th biggest tourist attraction in Texas
  • Trinity River flows through it
  • Six flags
  • Cowboys Stadium
  • Texas Rangers
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Air Conditioning

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Invented in the 20’s, Lindon B Johnson brought AC/electricity to secluded parts of Texas (hill country) with dams on the Colorado River

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Nueces River

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  • aka “nut river”
  • Texas state boundary
  • Corpus Christi sits at it’s mouth
  • Corpus was made from the hurricane of 1919
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Neches River

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  • Andrew Jackson and Sam Houston
  • A.J. claimed it as a trip wire in the way that if the Mexican army crossed it, America would get involved in the war (Tex. Rev.)
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Adams-Onis treaty of 1819

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-established 3 rivers: Neches (tripwire), Red River (northern river), and Sabine River (eastern boundary)

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Andrew Jackson

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  • never stepped foot in the state but had a huge influence on it
  • claimed Neches river as a trip wire
  • very passionate
  • either hated him or loved him
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Christopher Columbus

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  • Man trying to find the new world to discover new trade routes
  • Originally turned down by the Spanish queen but then she was convinced by Gabriel Sanchez to allow him to do the quest before he found trade routes for any other country
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Hernan Cortes

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  • dies of natural causes
  • great military chief
  • won against millions of Aztechs
  • was a seducer of women
  • running from an angry husband he came to the new world
  • came with many ships, weapons and armors
  • Aztechs thought he was a god
  • was after the three G’s: gold, glory, and god
  • established Vernan Cruz (city on Gulf of Mexico)
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Montezuma

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  • Emperor of the Aztecs
  • Allowed Cortes to enter the heart of the city to study him and find the Spaniards’ weaknesses
  • captured and killed by Cortes
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Malinche

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Woman that Cortes fell in love with, mother of his children, natural linguist and learned Spanish in a week, always honest and good to Cortes

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Panfilio Narvaez

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  • battles Cortes’ army and is beat
  • Cortes burns all his ships
  • northern boss of Mexico
  • teams up with Flores De Flaca
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Astolabe

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Instrument to navigate by using the stars

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Cabeza de Vaca

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-one of the survivors of the Navarez expedition who washed up on the Galveston beach area where they met Karankawa Indians

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Karankawa Indians

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Known for eating people for power, saved the 50 men who washed up from Navarez’s expedition by putting them by a fire to warm up, very large/tall people, good hunters

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Coahulietecan Indians

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Weakest tribe
North eastern New Mexico
Ate whatever they could
Hunters
Short in size
Killed young girls, only wanted boys because they didn’t want others to steal their women
Stole women from other tribes to repopulate

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Caddo Indians

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  • East Texas
  • Peaceful Tribe
  • Came up with the Spanish name “Tejas” meaning “ally” or “friend”
  • Catholicism was forced upon these Indians
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Tonkawa Indians

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  • present day Oklahoma and Texas

- entered a treaty with Stephen F Austin pleading their support against the Comanche tribe

25
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Angelina River

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Mouth at the Neches River

Battle of Nacedoches in Mexian war

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St. Denis

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  • Canadian trader sent to settle trading ties between New Mexico and France
  • was arrested by Spanish authorities
  • convinced Spanish that Spain and France could work together in an area north of the Rio Grande for trading purposes
  • accompanied a new Spanish expedition through East Texas and founded 4 new missions
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H.L. Hunt

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  • Texas oil tycoon and political activist

- built one of the world’s largest fortunes by trading poker winnings for oil rights

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New London

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First English settlement in 1646

29
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Changes in race between 2000-2050

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Will have less Anglos and more Mexicans

30
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Changes in education

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30% of the States’ labor force won’t have a high school diploma

31
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Changes in location

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  • Decline of population in North Texas and an incline in South Texas
  • Hispanic heartland is south of the Colorado river
  • Houston area has the most Hispanics
32
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Religious history between 1900-2000

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Methodists 
Baptists (independent minded) 
Church of Christ 
Deciples of Christ 
Lutherans 
Episcopalians 
Catholics
33
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History of Spanish Texas

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-unsuccessful failure

34
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Spain

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Not wealthy
Invaded by the Muslims
From 1600-1700 people were unsure if Christianity was going to make it

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Cordoba

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Muslim church that was built on top of the rubble from a former Christian cathedral

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Charles Martel

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Put together a good Christian army to fight back the invading Muslims

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Tours Battle

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  • turning point of western civilization
  • Martel’s army turns back the Muslim army
  • started at dawn and lasted all day
  • rumors of the Christians were in the Muslim’s camp was enough to turn the Muslims around to win the battle
  • reconquista
38
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How many years did it take for Spain to reconcur their country?

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760 years

39
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Trinity River

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Tex Revolution started at the mouth of it

40
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Buffalo Bayou

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Houston port that is far enough from the coast to avoid damage from hurricanes

41
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San Antonio Riverwalk

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Started by Maury Maverik (congressman who fell into it when he was drunk)

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