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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 ✔✔ [Show More]

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