TEXES History 233 Latest Updated 2023
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Battle of Gonzales ✔✔First battle of the Texas Revolution; 10-2-1835
Battle at San Jacinto ✔✔Last battle of Texas Revolution, won by the Texans; 4-21-18368
Stephen F Austin ✔✔Established the first Anglo-American colony in Texas; believed issues
could be solved within the Mexican Structure; Secretary of State of Texas
1830 Law ✔✔Mexican official made it illegal for any more Americans to move into Texas
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca ✔✔After attempting to go back to Cuba, he would land in
Galveston, Texas and live in East Texas.
José De Escandón ✔✔First governor of Nuevo Santander and is known as the "Father of the Rio
Grande Valley"
,Laredo ✔✔Founded by Tomás Sanchez de la Barrera y Garza (with permission from José de
Escandón) and was the largest/most successful Spanish settlement
Francisco Hidalgo ✔✔Was a missionary to the Caddo Indians; with his letters & help from
Louis Juchereau de St. Denis established a permanent European occupation in Texas
Texas Rangers ✔✔Hired by Stephen F Austin for an expedition against the Indians and would
later help during the Mexican War
Buffalo Soldiers ✔✔Name given to the 4 regiments, especially the 2 calvaries of African
Americans, by the Plains Indians
Quanah Parker ✔✔Last chief of the Quahada Comanche Indians
Sam Houston ✔✔US Congressman and Tennessee governor; first president of Texas
Hawaii ✔✔Was led by a Hereditary Monarch; Queen wanted no outside influence but her people
revolted and asked the US for help; became a state in 1959
, World War I ✔✔Sinking of Lusitania, German U-Boat aggression, Zimmerman Note
Sparta ✔✔Oligarchic military state; strict; farmed
Athens ✔✔Birth place of democracy
Governments of Greece ✔✔Assembly (citizens who showed up); courts (lawsuits & trials);
council (daily running of government)
Nile River ✔✔In Egypt, life was centered around here; made a political system necessary
Black Death ✔✔Killed 1/3 of the population; ended feudalism; turned the people away from
God
Johannesburg Gutenberg ✔✔Invented the printed press (1448)
Leonardo da Vinci ✔✔Founder of the "Renaissance Style"
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Battle of Gonzales ✔✔First battle of the Texas Revolution; 10-2-1835
Battle at San Jacinto ✔✔Last battle of Texas Revolution, won by the Texans; 4-21-18368
Stephen F Austin ✔✔Established the first Anglo-American colony in Texas; believed issues
could be solved within the Mexican Structure; Secretary of State of Texas
1830 Law ✔✔Mexican official made it illegal for any more Americans to move into Texas
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca ✔✔After attempting to go back to Cuba, he would land in
Galveston, Texas and live in East Texas.
José De Escandón ✔✔First governor of Nuevo Santander and is known as the "Father of the Rio
Grande Valley"
,Laredo ✔✔Founded by Tomás Sanchez de la Barrera y Garza (with permission from José de
Escandón) and was the largest/most successful Spanish settlement
Francisco Hidalgo ✔✔Was a missionary to the Caddo Indians; with his letters & help from
Louis Juchereau de St. Denis established a permanent European occupation in Texas
Texas Rangers ✔✔Hired by Stephen F Austin for an expedition against the Indians and would
later help during the Mexican War
Buffalo Soldiers ✔✔Name given to the 4 regiments, especially the 2 calvaries of African
Americans, by the Plains Indians
Quanah Parker ✔✔Last chief of the Quahada Comanche Indians
Sam Houston ✔✔US Congressman and Tennessee governor; first president of Texas
Hawaii ✔✔Was led by a Hereditary Monarch; Queen wanted no outside influence but her people
revolted and asked the US for help; became a state in 1959
, World War I ✔✔Sinking of Lusitania, German U-Boat aggression, Zimmerman Note
Sparta ✔✔Oligarchic military state; strict; farmed
Athens ✔✔Birth place of democracy
Governments of Greece ✔✔Assembly (citizens who showed up); courts (lawsuits & trials);
council (daily running of government)
Nile River ✔✔In Egypt, life was centered around here; made a political system necessary
Black Death ✔✔Killed 1/3 of the population; ended feudalism; turned the people away from
God
Johannesburg Gutenberg ✔✔Invented the printed press (1448)
Leonardo da Vinci ✔✔Founder of the "Renaissance Style"
