PRESENTATION OUTLINE
1. Natural Texas
Beginning- 1500
-Caddo
-Karankawa
-Apache
-nomad
2. Age of Contact
1500-1600
-Christopher Columbus
-Cortes and the Aztecs
-The Columbian Exchange
-Cabeza de Vaca
3. Spanish Texas
1600- 1821
-The Mission System
-San Antonio
-Robert La Salle (French)
-Fort St. Louis (French)
4. Mexican Texas
1821- 1835
-Mexican War of Independence
-Father Hidalgo
-Stephen F. Austin
-Empresario
-Filibuster
5. Texas Revolution
1835- 1836
-Santa Anna
-Sam Houston
-William Travis
-Davy Crockett
-Jim Bowie
-Battle of Gonzales
-The Battle of the Alamo
-Massacre at Goliad
-Battle of San Jacinto
-Sam Houston
-Mirabeau Lamar
-Annexation
-Sam Houston
-US/Mexican War
-North and South differences
-Southern slavery
-Sectionalism
-Causes of the war
-Confederate States of America
-North Advantages
-Abraham Lincoln
-Battle of Galveston
-Battle of Palmito Ranch
-Battle of Sabine Pass
-Black Codes
-Ku Klux Klan
-Sharecropping
-13th Amendment
-15th Amendment
-Comancheria
-Cynthia Ann Parker
-Quanah Parker
-Indian Reservation
-Comanche and Buffalo
-Cattle Drive
-Cowboy
-Why did it end?
-Spindletop
-Difficulties of Farming
-Texas Lumber Industry
-Allies
-Central Powers
-Causes of the War
-Allies
-Axis
-Causes of the War
-Pearl Harbor
-D-Day
-Bombing of Hiroshima
-Soviet Union
-Disarmament
-Mutually Assured Destruction
-Duck and Cover
-Space Race
-Apollo 11