TEXES History 233 Latest Updated 2023
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Battle of Gonzales ✔✔First battle of the Texas Revolution; 10-2-1835
Battle at San Jacinto ✔✔Last battle of Texas Revolution, won by the Texans; 4-21-1836
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TEXES History 233 Latest Updated 2023
with Certified Solutions
Battle of Gonzales ✔✔First battle of the Texas Revolution; 10-2-1835
Battle at San Jacinto ✔✔Last battle of Texas Revolution, won by the Texans; 4-21-18368
Stephen F Austin ✔✔Established the first Anglo-American colony in Texas; believed issues
could be solved within the Mexican Structure; Secretary of State of Texas
1830 Law ✔✔Mexican official made it illegal for any more Americans to move into Texas
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca ✔✔After attempting to go back to Cuba, he would land in
Galveston, Texas and live in East Texas.
José De Escandón ✔✔First governor of Nuevo Santander and is known as the "Father of the Rio
Grande Valley"
Laredo ✔✔Founded by Tomás Sanchez de la Barrera y Garza (with permission from José de
Escandón) and was the largest/most successful Spanish settlement
Francisco Hidalgo ✔✔Was a missionary to the Caddo Indians; with his letters & help from
Louis Juchereau de St. Denis established a permanent European occupation in Texas
Texas Rangers ✔✔Hired by Stephen F Austin for an expedition against the Indians and would
later help during the Mexican War
Buffalo Soldiers ✔✔Name given to the 4 regiments, especially the 2 calvaries of African
Americans, by the Plains Indians
Quanah Parker ✔✔Last chief of the Quahada Comanche Indians
Sam Houston ✔✔US Congressman and Tennessee governor; first president of Texas
Hawaii ✔✔Was led by a Hereditary Monarch; Queen wanted no outside influence but her people
revolted and asked the US for help; became a state in 1959
World War I ✔✔Sinking of Lusitania, German U-Boat aggression, Zimmerman Note
Sparta ✔✔Oligarchic military state; strict; farmed
Athens ✔✔Birth place of democracy
Governments of Greece ✔✔Assembly (citizens who showed up); courts (lawsuits & trials);
council (daily running of government)
Nile River ✔✔In Egypt, life was centered around here; made a political system necessary
Black Death ✔✔Killed 1/3 of the population; ended feudalism; turned the people away from
God
Johannesburg Gutenberg ✔✔Invented the printed press (1448)
Leonardo da Vinci ✔✔Founder of the "Renaissance Style"
Martin Luther ✔✔Started the Protestant Reformation in Germany
Napoleon Bonaparte ✔✔Commander of the French Army; conquered the Ottoman Empire; sold
Louisiana for money for his war efforts
Giza Pyramids ✔✔After life temples for leaders; off of the West Bank of the Nile River
Monotheism ✔✔Belief in one God only
Alexander the Great ✔✔Greatest conquerors in history; spread the Greek culture in the east
Egypt ✔✔Hieroglyphics; invented paper, the decimal system, solar calendar; centered life
around the Nile River
Genghis Khan ✔✔United the nomadic tribes of the Mongolian plateau; created the first
international postal system
Mohammad ✔✔Developed Islam; the Koran are his writings; brought a sense of unity
Charlemagne ✔✔Helped spread Christianity through invasion
Silk Road ✔✔International trade route
Aztec ✔✔Hunters & gatherers; founded Tenochtitlán; military was dominant; written history;
disappeared with warfare
Inca ✔✔South American Indians; oral history; Aristocratic bureaucracy
Roman Catholic ✔✔Church supplied education; filled a void left by invasions; kings were
influence by popes; controlled a lot of land
Margaret Thatcher ✔✔Britain's first female Prime Minister; served 3 consecutive terms
French and Indian War ✔✔Great Britain won and ended France's reign in North America; led to
Great Britain's debt
Boston Massacre ✔✔March 5th 1770; 5 deaths
Boston Tea Party ✔✔December 1773; merchants dumped tea into the Boston Harbor to protest
the Tea Act
Lexington and Concord ✔✔April 1775; first battle of Revolutionary War
Battle of Yorktown ✔✔Although Britain surrendered here (October 19, 1781) the war continued
due to the lack of fast communication
Treaty of Paris ✔✔September 3, 1783; officially ended the war, recognized the United States of
America and states the Mississippi River as the wester border
Great Conpromise ✔✔AKA Connecticut Conpromise; each state has 2 senators and the house
will be base on population; BICAMERAL congress
3/5 Compromise ✔✔3/5 of the slave population would count
Fall of Western Roman Empire ✔✔New religion, too big to rule, decrease in agricultural
production; attacks from Germanic tribes
Manifest Destiny ✔✔Would lead to the Mexican American War; God given right to expand
Protestant Reformation ✔✔Started by Martin Luther in Germany; turned away from the Catholic
Religion; John Calvin led the movement in Switzerland
Enlightenment ✔✔Began to rely on what they see; focused on logic
Suez Canal ✔✔Planned by the French but built by the British; made traveling a lot easier and
shorter
Buddhism ✔✔Founded by Siddhartha Gautama
Cuzco ✔✔Oldest city in Americas
Ganges River ✔✔The holy river for Hindus
John Locke ✔✔Influenced by Jean-Jacques Rousseau; influenced Thomas Jefferson
Magma Carta ✔✔Signed in June 1215; first document to limit power
Fundamental Ordera ✔✔First to create government and influenced the constitution
Neolithic ✔✔Domesticate animals, produce crops, social structure
Head right system ✔✔Incentives for wealthy land owners to bring over workers across the
Atlantic
Mayflower Compact ✔✔First framework of government; November 1620
Iroquois Confedercy ✔✔Consisted of Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut ✔✔Windsor, Hartford, and Werhersfield; first written
constitution to create a government
Virginia House of Burgesses ✔✔Democratically elected legislative body
New England Colonies ✔✔Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire ;
avoided religious persecution
Middle Colonies ✔✔New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania , Delaware; from Netherlands and
Sweden
South Colonies ✔✔Maryland, Virginia, North & South Carolina, Georgia; agriculture
Alfred Thayer Mahan ✔✔Expresses importance in naval power
Theodore Roosevelt ✔✔26th president; the US grew more active in world politics
Woodrow Wilson ✔✔Fourteen Points: peace settlement to end war and proposed an
international organization
NATO ✔✔If one country is attacked, it will be considered an attack on the other countries as
well
Korean War ✔✔First time a world organization plays a military role
Marshal Plan ✔✔European recovery program after WWII
Marbury vs Madison ✔✔Supreme Court could strike down laws, can overturn legislation that
conflicted with the Consitution
Truman Doctrice ✔✔Will provide political, military and economic aid to all democratic nation
who are threatened
Caesar Chavez ✔✔Migrant farm worker, founded the United Farm Workers organization
committee
Voting Act of 1965 ✔✔Eliminated all taxes and tests that prevented blacks from voting
Brown vs Board of Education ✔✔Declared "separate but equal" unconstitutional
Civil Rights Act of 1964 ✔✔Discrimination was illegal in employment, education, or public
accommodations
Web Dubois ✔✔Helped form the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
16th Amendment ✔✔Graduated income tax
17th Amendment ✔✔Direct election of senators
18th Amendment ✔✔Prohibition
19th Amendment ✔✔Women could vote
21st Amendment ✔✔Overturned the 18th Amendment
Betty Friedan ✔✔Book caused a new feminist movement & helped create the National
Organization for Women
Louisiana Purchase ✔✔$15 million; federalist were against this because they thought it would
extend slavery
Mecca ✔✔Holy city of Islam
Magna Carta ✔✔Signed in June 1215; attempt to stop abuse of power
Hammurabi's Code ✔✔"An eye for an eye"; compiled of various pieces of laws
Command Economy ✔✔Means of production are publicly owned & economic activity is
controlled by a central authority that assigns quantitative production goals & allots raw materials
to productive enterprises
Market economic systems ✔✔Based on the power of division of labor in which the prices of
goods & services are determined in a free price system set by supply & demand
Persian Wars ✔✔Battle of Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis, and Plataea; 499-448 BCE
Sumerians ✔✔Invented the wheel
Phoenicians ✔✔Started the alphabet
The Han ✔✔Most accomplished dynasty in China history
Arctic Ocean ✔✔Northwest Passage; sought by explorers
Indian Ocean ✔✔3rd largest ocean; extensive trade
Copper ✔✔First metal used
Animism ✔✔Belief spiritus inhabit natural objects
Mesopotamia ✔✔Earliest civilization in the valley of Tigris & Eurphrates Rivers
City states ✔✔Created because cooperation of settlements were needed due to the unpredictable
rivers; earliest form of government
Patriarchal ✔✔The husband/father was the head of the household
Nubian Kingdom ✔✔Invaded Egypt; ruled for a century
Vedes ✔✔Oral epics from the Aryan Society
Shang ✔✔Earliest Chinese dynasty to leave written records
The Hebrews ✔✔Lived along the Mediterranean Sea; origins back to Abraham
The Zhou ✔✔Claimed approval of gods to dominate China after the fall of the Shang
The Qin ✔✔Replaced the Zhou dynasty; name is applied to the country-China; Great Wall was
constructed
Wilmer Provisio ✔✔Prohibited slavery in the land acquired from Mexico
Jefferson Davis ✔✔Only president of the Confederate
The First 100 Days ✔✔CCC;NRA; AAA; Tennessee Vally Authority
Social Security Act of 1935 ✔✔Created a federal pension system funded by taxes
Democratic Party ✔✔Emerged as a major party because of the New Deal
George Wallace ✔✔"Segregation forever"
Progressive presidents ✔✔Theodore Roosevelt & Woodrow Wilson
Warsaw Pact ✔✔1955; agreement between Soviet Union and other countries of Easter Europe;
in response to NATO
Fray Damian Massenet ✔✔Established the first Spanish Missionary in East Texas
John Magruder ✔✔Helped recapture Galveston
Battle of Galveston ✔✔1-1-1863; Confederate regained control of the port
Battle of Palmito Ranch ✔✔Last land action of Civil War; happened after Lee surrendered
Mary Maverick ✔✔Pioneer; memoirs are used for references
Ferdinand Rebellion ✔✔First attempt for Texas Independence; 1826-1827
Hector P Garcia ✔✔Founded the American GI Forum; civil rights advocate
Jane McCallum ✔✔Leader of women's suffrage; TX Secretary of State
Overall Culp Hobby ✔✔
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