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- 1826 Haden and Benjamin Edwards take over the Old Stone Fort in Nacogdoches and declare an independent Republic of Fredonia. The revolt was put down by Mexican troops.
- Native American dwelling made of wooden poles and animal hides
- A military blockade of a city or fortress
- A person of Mexican heritage who considers Texas their home
- First European to "discover" the New World in 1492.
- Famous name for Mission San Antonio de Valero
- Most important Spanish settlement in East Texas. Site of an earlier Spanish mission and a town built by Gil Ybarbo in 1779.
- Spanish explorer who drowned off Galveston Island. Cabeza de Vaca was one of the survivors of the shipwreck.
- U.S. buys Louisiana territory from France for $15 million in 1803. Doubled the size of the U.S.
- A Native American village with joined, flat-roofed buildings.
- Words of William B. Travis written from the Alamo before its fall.
- Date that the Convention of 1836 Declares Independence from Mexico.
- Cousin of Stephen F. Austin who wrote a series of letters describing everyday life in Austin's colony
- Spanish conquistador who imprisoned Moctezuma and destroyed Tenochtitlan in 1519
- Early settler who opened one of the first schools for girls in Texas
- Spanish explorer who crossed the Plains from the Grand Canyon to the Arkansas river in search of gold at Cibola and Quivira.
- The "Lexington of Texas". First Battle of the Texas Revolution.
- Name given to the first three hundred families to settle in Austin's colony.
- French outpost established by La Salle on Matagorda Bay in 1685
- 1519--First European to explore the Texas Coast