Units 1-6 Mexican National Era Review (does not include gov.)

What region is this?

• Coastal Plains
• Mountains and Basins
• North Central Plains
• Great Plains

What Region is this?

• Coastal Plains
• North Central Plains
• Mountains and Basins
• Great Plains

What region is this?

• Great Plains
• North Central Plains
• Coastal Plains
• Mountains and Basins

What region is this?

• Coastal Plains
• Mountains and Basins
• North Central Plains
• Great Plains

Which region of Texas receives the least annual rainfall? 

• Mountains and Basins
• Coastal Plains
• North Central Plains
• Great Plains 

Which of the following was a characteristic of the Spanish Colonial Era in Texas?

• Forts were built to protect American Indian tribes in Texas.
• American Indian tribes were discouraged from settling in Texas.
• Missions, presidios and towns were built to hold onto Spanish claim to the land in Texas.
• Spanish explorers negotiated treaties to trade and travel safely in Texas.

Presidios were built by the Spanish for what purpose?

• Farming
• Buffalo ranches
• Training the Native Americans in the area
• Protection from Indians

What is the SIGNIFICANCE of the year 1718 in the history of Texas settlement?

• The mission San Antonio de Valero was built. This later becomes "The Alamo" and develops into city of  San Antonio. 
• It was the year the Natives built the alamo.
• It was the year Cabeza de Vaca found Palo Duro Canyon
• It was the year Coronado found his Gold. 

European exploration had a negative effect because

• American Indians were moved to the coast
• diseases were brought by Spanish missionaries and killed many Indians
• fighting broke out over trade with the missionaries
• American Indians starved because buffalo were wiped out by the missionaries

Who settled the first Anglo (white) American families, the "Old 300", and started the first colony of American immigrants? He was known as the Father of Texas....

• Stephen F. Austin
• Moses Austin
• Martin de Leon
• Green DeWitt