2. People bring ideas & culture from one place to another Cultural Diffusion

3. This is an underground water supply. aquifer

4. A tableland covered with small trees and brush plateau

5. The exact location of a place on the earth’s surface Absolute location

6. Where a place is in relation to other places Relative location

7. Areas united by one or more common characteristics regions

8. * These rivers border Texas

10. Red River, Sabine, Rio Grande

11. These things effect the climate in Texas:

12. absolute location, relative location, & Elevation

13. NORTHER An icy wind from the north

14. DROUGHT A dry period with little precipitation

15. EROSION Wearing away the earth’s surface

16. This scientist studies past human life. archaeologist

17. This is an object made by humans long ago. artifact

18. CULTURE The way of life of a group of people

19. NOMADS People who wander from place to place

20. Sun-dried earth and straw adobe

21. The most advanced of the Texas Indians Caddos

22. These Indians relied on their dugout canoes. Karankawas

23. JUMANO ….. TIGUAS These two tribes were pueblo Indians.

24. This most feared tribe lived on the plains. Comanches

25. - ALABAMA-COUSHATTAS - TIGUAS - KICKAPOOS Three Indian reservations in Texas today:

26. Spanish soldiers in search of riches and power Conquistadors

27. This Spanish explorer conquered the Aztecs in 1519. Cortez

28. This Spanish explorer mapped the coast of Texas. Pineda

29. He was shipwrecked and captured by the Karankawas. Cabeza de Vace

30. He explored Texas searching for Cibola and Quivera Coronado

31. MOSCOSO He explored East Texas after De Soto died.

32. A religious settlement Mission

33. PUEBLO A Native American village with flat-roofed buildings

34. He claimed Louisiana & Texas for France. LaSalle

35. CORPUS CHRISTI DE LA YSLETA The first mission in Texas

36. SAN FRANCISCO DE LOS TEJAS The first mission in East Texas

37. A Spanish military outpost presidio

38. ALAMO San Antonio de Valero was a mission later known as the

39. TEJANO A person of Mexican heritage in Texas

40. TEJAS The Caddos used this word to mean “friend”

41. ALLIANCE An agreement between nations or people

42. A government in which people vote for people to represent them. a republic

43. The U.S. bought the Louisiana territory from … France

44. SPAIN The Adams-Onis Treaty set all boundaries between the U.S. and

45. MEXICO This country gained independence from Spain in 1821.

46. He is known as the “Father of Texas” Stephen F. Austin

47. This is a person who brings new settlers to an area? empresario

48. DEPRESSION A period of low economic activity

49. Baron Bastrop helped Moses Austin by convincing this man to give him a job. Governor Martinez

50. Stephen F. Austin chose land between these two rivers. Colorado and Brazos Rivers

51. NATIVE AMERICANS Stephen F. Austin raised a militia for protection against

52. How did it effect Stephen F. Austin when Mexico won independence ? He lost his contract.

53. These were Stephen F. Austin’s first settlers. Who were the “Old Three Hundred”?

54. This is why settlers came to Texas. Land was cheap.

55. Empresarios brought settlers from: United States Mexico Ireland

56. THE UNITED STATES Most settlers came from this country