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Jan 1, 1400
Age of exploration
The Europeans where eager to explore as they wanted to spread God get God and get glory! When Columbus set out trying to find a western route to Asia but instead he found America. A lot of the explores are from Europe.conquistador Is a conqueror.
A focus explorer who tore down tenochititlen new Spain is Cortez. -
Jun 2, 1519
Pineda maps coast of Texas
He went along the cost. And he is the one who mapped the coast of Texas. -
Nov 6, 1528
Cabeza de vaca
Cabeza de vaca was captured by the Karankawa native tribe.
During the age of contact disiese was killing a lot of them.
After hearing his stories they intensify the exploration. -
Jan 1, 1541
Coronado sets out for cibola
What is the cibola Mythicle 7 cities of weath
He thought cibola was in Texas because of story's he heard.
He never found cibola.
He discovered the Grand Canyon -
La selle lands in Texas
France was challenging Spain for Texas.
La selle found the Mississippi. -
Fort St. Louis
Fort St. Louis is in Texas.
Fort St. Louis was founded by la selle
Fort St. Louis failed because crops would not grow and few survived after the ship wreck -
Mission San francicsco
The purpose of a mission is to turn the Indians into Christians (Catholics)
Missions where led by the Spanish. (Spain)
The missions where built by the Spanish.
Missions thought Christianity
Almost no missions where successful
Missions failed because no Indian converted
The the wall around a mission is the fort. -
Marques de rubi
Marques was sent by viceroy Cruillas.
To see condition of Spain.
He recommended Spain reorganize its frontier defenses and a war of extermination against the Lipan Apaches. -
The Lousiana Purhase
After the lousiana purches now spain and us border each other.after the lousiana purches the 3 countries that still owned north america was britten texas and spain. -
philip nolan expidition
a fillibuster is one who wants texes to sperate from spain. 2 filli busters are
Anthony Glass 1809
Gutierrez-Magee-Toledo 1811
jean lafitee is French-American pirate -
mose austin asks permission for a colony
moses f austin got a colony because he new someone in the spain government. Before he could start the colony he died. -
Steven F Austin
An empresario was a person who had been granted the right to settle on Mexican land in exchange for recruiting and taking responsibility for new settlers. Austins Colony was in texas.
the requirements spain had for his colony was loyal to the offical government and religion of Spain. Both the governmentloyal to the offical government and religion of Spain. old 300 where 300 familys from every where. A challenge was that alot of them had no way to get there but by foot so it might take a while. -
Steven F austin part 2
Haden Edwards and Robert Leftwich -
Mexicans Independence
Mexico got there inde pendence from spain,
The 1824 Constitution of Mexico
the state that was conbined with texas was Coahuila -
Law of april 6th
No more us immigration.
All empresario contracts are cancelled.
more mexicans will go to texes.
No new slaves.
no new forts.
More taxes. -
Fredonian rebelion
The goal was to not take orders from mexico.
Mexico's government.
Mexico came and killed all of them. -
Mier y teran report
Mier y teran was seeking the conditions of texas.
Because they thought that they where going to over rule texas
The furthere north eastern you go the less mexican influence. -
Convention of 1833
To write a letter to the mexicans to try to get them to recall the law of april 6th.
Steven F Austin was elected to go present it to them. -
SFA Arrested
SFA Areesed because they though he was trying to take texas.
SFA changed his mind about being loyal to the mexicans. -
Battle of gonzales
They would not give the 2 pound cannon back.
Texas
COME AND TAKE IT -
San Antonio De Bexar Siege
Siege "a military operation in which enemy forces surround a town or building, cutting off essential supplies, with the aim of compelling the surrender of those inside."
De bexar controlled sanantionio.
TEXAS! -
Convention of 1836
The Convention of 1836 wrote the Texas Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the Republic of Texas. -
Alamo
David Crocket William b travis James bowie.
300 alamo deffenders and 3000 mexican troops.
sam houstion did not send re enfourcements because he new that they would lose. -
Goliad Massacre
Fannin did not lose a battle they surrendered.
Santa anna.
400. -
The run away scrape
East
So santa anna's army could not track them and they would not have shelter.
Sam houstin ordered them to and they heard abot goliad and the alamo.
People thought that sam houstin was scared and did not want to fight. -
San Jacinto
REMEMBER THE ALAMO
REMEMBER GOLIAD
600 died on mexicos side with 200 wounded.
Texas only had 2 die.
Santa anna tried to run away on a horse.
Texas won this battle.
