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| Where was Christopher Columbus born? |
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| Who was the chief financial manager to King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella? |
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| Who was the mediator and spokesperson for Columbus when he was looking for financial support? |
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| Who gives Columbus the money for his journey? |
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| King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella |
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| Where did Columbus depart from on his journey? |
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| Where did Columbus first land? |
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| What were Columbuss three ships? |
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| Why did Columbus take his journey? |
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| To find a western route to the Orient |
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| Describe Columbuss journey during his first voyage. |
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| Trade winds in the beginning, no winds towards the end, crew starts to panic, Columbus asks for another 48 hours or they will turn back. Land spotted-Tierra, Tierra |
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| Red to brown swarthy skin, mongoloid spot, shovel-shaped incisors, small hands, high cheek bones |
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| Why did the Indians start dying soon after Columbus arrived? |
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| The Indians were not immune to European diseases. |
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| How did the Indians get back at the Europeans for giving them diseases? |
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| The Indians gave the Europeans syphilis. |
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| Why did Columbus go back to Spain after the first voyage? |
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| He went to show off the Indians that he found and brag. |
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| What happened while Columbus was back in Spain after his first journey? |
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| The crew raped and pillaged the Indians. When Columbus came back he saw the Indians attacking and used crossbows and German shepherd dogs to attack the Indians. |
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| What did the Indians have that the Europeans had never seen? |
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| Catfish, Chickle (gum), Cacao (chocolate) |
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| What did the Europeans bring that the Indians had never seen? |
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| Wheat, Barley, Wine (grapes), Horses, Cattle, Pigs |
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| The capital of the Aztec civilization, now known as Vera Cruz. |
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| Who was the leader of the Aztec Indians? |
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| The deity worshipped by the Aztec Indians that was prophesized to return as a white man riding a beast. |
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| How did Cortez temporarily take control of Tenochtitlan? |
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| The Aztec Indians thought he was Quetzalcoatl. He didnt fire a single shot. |
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| What European country was dominant in the 1500s? |
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| Why did Spain go to war with Great Britain? |
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| They killed Mary, Queen of Scots & because they had been hijacking the Spanish ships |
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| Why did Spain lose the war with Great Britain? |
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| The British ships outflanked the Spanish & the Spanish ships got caught in a storm |
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| What was the big deal with the Anglo-Spanish War (Spain vs Great Britain)? |
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| It opened the door for colonization |
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| Who was Stephen F. Austin? |
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| The son of Moses Austin, Father of Texas, an empresario who recruited settlers to Mexico/Texas |
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| The first empresario to obtain permission for Anglo-Americans to settle into Spanish Texas. Died of pneumonia before he could see his dream realized. |
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| Where was the Alamo located & what was it? |
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| San Antonio, the last stand for the Texans that wanted to be independent of Mexico at an abandoned Catholic mission. |
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| What happened at the Battle of the Alamo? |
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| The Texans ran out of ammo and the Mexicans stormed the building. All the Texans were killed and their bodies burned. |
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| What happened at the Battle of San Jacinto? |
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| Sam Houston led regiment to kill the Mexicans that had massacred the group at the Alamo. Texas gains their independence. |
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| Why didnt Texas join the US immediately after they declared their independence? |
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| There was an even amount of free and slave states and to join would have meant choosing sides. Second, they thought it might provoke a war between America and Mexico. |
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| What are the resources that made Texas great? |
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| Where was the first oil strike? |
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| What resource was so powerful it was used as a bargaining tool with the British? |
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| What happened after the price of oil dropped in 1982? |
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| Texas was forced into more service sector jobs. |
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| Who claimed to be an integral part of the discovery or America but was really just a deck hand? |
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| Who was the German Historian/Author that gave Amerigo Vespucci the credit for discovering America? |
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| General of the Mexican Forces |
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| Political/Military leader of the Shawnee and the leader of the tribal confederacy that opposed the U.S. |
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| He wanted the Indians to stop drinking, he wanted to unite the Indians & he believed that the land belonged to everyone or God. |
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| Cotton was not as good a bargaining tool after the civil war. Why? |
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| Because of the increase of the cost of production the price went up on cotton. |
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| Texas becomes an independent republic |
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| Texas becomes annexed with the U.S. |
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| Confederate constitution adopted |
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| Texas under reconstruction |
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| Texas under current constitution |
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| What did the Europeans use to get their way with the Indians? |
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| They gave them alcohol, got them drunk and then they did whatever they wanted. |
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| What happened in Prophet Town, Indiana? |
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| Tecumseh organized a union of the Indians to come together against the white man |
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| He was the brother of Tecumseh, he was the spiritual leader, he was an instigator-troublemaker, he caused the decimation of the Indians by agitating the cavalry until the attacked the Indians and wiped them out. |
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| The United States is at war with England and the British offer to get the Indians land back if they agree to fight with them. Tecumseh was the mediator of this bargain but he dies in the battle of Thames as well as the chance for the Indians to get their land back. |
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| Yes, they could have either inherited their freedom or earned it through war service |
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| Did some Negroes own slaves? |
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| Did most families in the pre-civil war south own slaves? |
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| No, only 1 in 4 households |
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| A large plot of land with more than 20 slaves |
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| Were some whites in pre-civil war south poor? |
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| Yes, most subsistence farmers |
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| What kind of slave was the most valuable at the auctions? |
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| What was the average amount of slaves that a household owned? |
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| Texas governor in the early 1870s, Yankee sympathizer, corrupt-known for his corrupt, under the table dealings. His underhandedness brought about limitations of power for the governor. |
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| How often does the Texas legislature meet? |
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| The Texas legislature meets once every two years for 140 days. The state of Texas believed that the best government was the least government. |
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| What is the only way that the Texas legislature can meet for longer than 140 days? |
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| The Governor can call a special session for 30 days but he has to specify what the session if for ahead of time. |
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| How much money does the state of Texas borrow each year? |
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| What are the Land regions of Texas? |
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| Coastal Plains, Central Plains, Great Western Plains |
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| What cities are in the Coastal Plains? |
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| Longview, Lufkin, Nacogdoches, Beaumont, Houston |
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| Describe the Coastal Plains |
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| Most humid, most rain, most industry, least wind |
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| What cities are in the Central Plains? |
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| Dallas, Ft. Worth, Waco, Austin, San Antonio |
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| Describe the Central Plains |
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| Most service jobs, white collar |
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| What cities are in the Great Western Plains? |
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| Amarillo, Lubbock, Midland, Odessa, Big Spring |
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| Describe the Great Western Plains |
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| Driest part of the state, windiest, cattle ranching, farming, petroleum |
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| What was Texas like during the American Revolution. List 4 or 5 things. |
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| The majority of the people were Indians, Smal amount of Spanish Settlements, Ranching-raising cattle important, Lots of inexpensive land, Transportation and communication were primitive |
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| Explain the decrease in the Indians. Why it happened. |
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| The decrease in the Indians was from the diseases that the Europeans brought. Smallpox, Measles & Whooping Cough decimated 90% of the population. |
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| Daily lives of citizens in the period around the American Revolution. Describe some things about the daily lives of Texans during the American Revolution. |
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| Based upon survival, Most were married and worked together for survival, Women were not considered equals but did have property rights, Most were illiterate but well informed of the laws |
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| Discuss peace with the Comanches the defeat of the Apaches |
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| Pedro Vial met with the Comanches and brokered a peace agreement with them., The Apaches burned missions and killed the missionaries, they were defeated in a joint effort of the Comanches and Spanish Army |
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| Discuss Missions and the problems they go through. |
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| The missions were put in place to give the Indians a place to live. They ended up enslaving the Indians and mistreating them causing the Apaches to burn the missions and kill the missionaries. The missions were eventually abandoned. |
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| Stephen F. Austin Know general information about him, his family, land sales |
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| Son of Moses Austin-an empresario, took over for his father as an empresario, brought hundreds of families into Mexico/Texas, is known as the Father of Texas |
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| Describe the people that came to Texas Anglo Province |
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| Most were natives of the American South, Those that came from the north settled into northern Texas and those from the south into Southern Texas, Most came by way of an empresario but those in east texas mostly came on their own., They lived in one or two room log cabins with earth floors and no windows, They were subsistence farmers to start |
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| Early clashes between Anglo settlers and the Mexican Government |
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| Mexico felt threatened by the Anglos and feared they would revolt and want a separate government, Mexican congress halts immigration into Texas/Mexico, Americans start coming into Texas illegally |
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