The Alamo (Vocabulary)

a long fight, especially the surrounding of a city.

• siege

• Texians

• Tejanos

• Alamo

an American empresario, known as the "Father of Texas." He led the colonization of Texas by Americans in the 1820s, campaigned for Texan independence in the 1830s.

• Samuel Houston

• Stephen Austin

• Texians

• Alamo

a Mexican politician and general who fought for Mexican independence from Spain and later against the Texians in the Texas Revolution. He was elected president of Mexico in 1833, but his regime soon became a centralist dictatorship.

• James Bowie

• David Crockett

• Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna

• William B. Travis

an American lawyer and soldier who served as a lieutenant colonel in the Texas Army during the Texas Revolution. He commanded Texan forces at the Battle of the Alamo.

• Samuel Houston

• James Bowie

• David Crockett

• William Travis

people from the state of Texas who are culturally descended from the original Spanish-speaking settlers of Texas and Mexico.

• Tejanos

• Texians

• James Bowie

• Alamo

a Roman Catholic mission and fortress settled in the 18th century in present-day San Antonio and site of a critical battle during the Texas Revolution in 1836.

• Tejanos

• Texians

• Alamo

• Stephen Austin

an American politician and soldier who served as the first and third president of the Republic of Texas.

• Samuel Houston

• James Bowie

• William Travis

• David Crockett

Anglo-American settlers living in Mexican Tejas, later the Republic of Texas

• Stephen Austin

• Alamo

• Tejanos

• Texians

an American frontiersman, politician and soldier, also called the "King of the Wild Frontier". He was an expert rifleman and a Tennessee representative in the U.S. House of Representatives. He became a folk hero due his role in the Texas Revolution and the Battle of the Alamo.

• William Travis

• Samuel Houston

• David Crockett

• James Bowie

an American pioneer and soldier. He became a folk hero due his renowned fighting skills, his role in the Texas Revolution and his leadership at the Battle of the Alamo.

• Samuel Houston

• William Travis

• James Bowie

• David Crockett