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- Legendary 7 cities of gold (according to Estavanico). Coronado found only a pueblo full of angry Zunis.
- Pirate with headquarters on Galveston Island who refused to help James Long fight against the Spanish.
- Santa Anna's decision to execute Texas prisoners at Goliad.
- The effort to reorganize the seceded states and bring them back into the Union.
- Treaty that ended the Texas Revolution and included Santa Anna's promise to never fight against the Texans again.
- Wandering with no permanent place to live. ( Many newly freed slaves were accused of vagrancy and sentenced to forced labor)
- Commander of Texas forces at the Alamo. Drew a line in the sand. Wrote a famous letter declaring "Victory or death!"
- Commander of Mexican forces during the Texas Revolution. Surrendered to General Sam Houston after the Battle of San Jacinto.
- Banner used to decorate the Texan's cannon at the Battle of Gonzales.
- Sam Houston and the Texan army defeat the Mexican Army under Santa Anna to win the Texas Revolution.
- The view that the United States should expand its borders from coast to coast.
- To put to death- usually by hanging- Though mob action and without legal authority
- A system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant (farmer) to use the land in exchange for part of the crop grown.( Resulting debt cycle kept majority of southerns- black and white- in extreme poverty for nearly 100 years).
- To put a district or state under military control. (Ex. in NC due to KKK violence)
- Geographic area, including the Texas Panhandle, that was hit by giant dust storms caused by drought and excessive plowing in the 1930's.
- The period of history after the Civil War in which the government struggled to rebuild the South
- "King's Road" leading from Mexico City to Texas.
- Public Land that could be used by anyone, usually for grazing cattle.
- The action of setting someone or something apart from other
- Although conscription occurred during the Civil War, most men who fought were volunteers, many of whom initially expressed feelings of duty and honor.