People bring ideas & culture from one place to another

Cultural Diffusion

This is an undergroundwater 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 ontheir 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 1519.

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