People bring ideas & culture from one place to another Cultural Diffusion
This is an underground water supply. aquifer
A tableland covered with small trees and brush plateau
The exact location of a place on the earth’s surface Absolute location
Where a place is in relation to other places Relative location
Areas united by one or more common characteristics regions
* These rivers border Texas
Red River, Sabine, Rio Grande
These things effect the climate in Texas:
absolute location, relative location, & Elevation
NORTHER An icy wind from the north
DROUGHT A dry period with little precipitation
EROSION Wearing away the earth’s surface
This scientist studies past human life. archaeologist
This is an object made by humans long ago. artifact
CULTURE The way of life of a group of people
NOMADS People who wander from place to place
Sun-dried earth and straw adobe
The most advanced of the Texas Indians Caddos
These Indians relied on their dugout canoes. Karankawas
JUMANO ….. TIGUAS These two tribes were pueblo Indians.
This most feared tribe lived on the plains. Comanches
- ALABAMA-COUSHATTAS - TIGUAS - KICKAPOOS Three Indian reservations in Texas today:
Spanish soldiers in search of riches and power Conquistadors
This Spanish explorer conquered the Aztecs in Cortez
This Spanish explorer mapped the coast of Texas. Pineda
He was shipwrecked and captured by the Karankawas. Cabeza de Vace
He explored Texas searching for Cibola and Quivera Coronado
MOSCOSO He explored East Texas after De Soto died.
A religious settlement Mission
PUEBLO A Native American village with flat-roofed buildings
He claimed Louisiana & Texas for France. LaSalle
CORPUS CHRISTI DE LA YSLETA The first mission in Texas
SAN FRANCISCO DE LOS TEJAS The first mission in East Texas
A Spanish military outpost presidio
ALAMO San Antonio de Valero was a mission later known as the
TEJANO A person of Mexican heritage in Texas
TEJAS The Caddos used this word to mean “friend”
ALLIANCE An agreement between nations or people
A government in which people vote for people to represent them. a republic
The U.S. bought the Louisiana territory from … France
SPAIN The Adams-Onis Treaty set all boundaries between the U.S. and
MEXICO This country gained independence from Spain in 1821.
He is known as the “Father of Texas” Stephen F. Austin
This is a person who brings new settlers to an area? empresario
DEPRESSION A period of low economic activity
Baron Bastrop helped Moses Austin by convincing this man to give him a job. Governor Martinez
Stephen F. Austin chose land between these two rivers. Colorado and Brazos Rivers
NATIVE AMERICANS Stephen F. Austin raised a militia for protection against
How did it effect Stephen F. Austin when Mexico won independence ? He lost his contract.
These were Stephen F. Austin’s first settlers. Who were the “Old Three Hundred”?
This is why settlers came to Texas. Land was cheap.
Empresarios brought settlers from: United States Mexico Ireland
THE UNITED STATES Most settlers came from this country