This is why early people immigrated to America

To follow herds of animals

This scientist studies past human activities.

• What is an archaeologist ?

There is only one naturallake in Texas.

• What is Caddo Lake ?

Where is the mountain basin region?

• West Texas

Land boundaries

This river borders Oklahoma.

•The Red River

The most common landform in Texas

• Plains

This river runs between Texas and Mexico.

• What is the Rio Grande?

These are steep cliffs.

• What are escarpments?

This city is the capital of Texas.

• What is Austin ?

This river runs between Texas and Louisiana.

• What is the Sabine River ?

These Indians have tattooed faces and like to trade.

• Who are the Jumanos?

These were fighting Indians who hunted buffalos.

• Comanches (plains Indians)

These Indians were farmers in east Texas. (the oldest tribe)

• Who were the Caddos?

These Indians treasuredtheir canoes.

• Who were the Karankawas?

The religious leader and medicine man

• Shaman

Christopher Columbus sailed in this year.

• What is 1492?

The first explorers came from …

Spain

They paid for Columbus’ trip.

Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain

This Spanish explorer conquered the Aztecs in 1519.

• Who was Cortez?

The Aztecs thought Cortez was …

• The god…Quetzalcoatl

This Spanish explorer mapped the Gulf of Mexico.

• Who was de Pineda?

This word means a Spanish soldier.

• What is a Conquistadore ?

Cabeza de Vaca and Estevanico lived with these Indians for 6 years.

• Who were the• Karankawas?

This is what the Karankawas thought these men were.

• What are shaman?

Legend says that these cities were founded by seven bishops fleeing from the Moors in Spain.

What were the seven cities of gold?

Coronado killed this guide when he didn’t find gold.

• Who was Turk?

This is who brought the first horses to America.

Who are the Spaniards?

This French explorer wanted a colony at the bottom of the

Mississippi River.

Who was LaSalle?

LaSalle and his four ships of families looked for this river, but

missed it.

What is the Mississippi River?

These people captured one of LaSalle’s ships.

• What are pirates?

This is the name of LaSalle’s colony.

Fort St. Louis

These Indians attacked LaSalle’s colony

• Who were the Karankawas?

This is where the friars taught Indians to farm and to be Catholics

The Missions

This is how Spain first tried to settle Texas

Missions

These protected the missions.

What were presidios ?

The American Revolutionary War was between America and …

Britain

He wrote the U.S. Declaration of Independence ?

Who is Thomas Jefferson ?

This road connected Nacogdoches, San Antonio, and Saltillo

El Camino Real