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HPISD SS7 for Exams
mainly for hpms students in 7th grade studing for winter finals.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Absolute location | Location using latitude and longitude |
| Reigons | an area united by one or more characteristics |
| Relative location | location in relationship to other places. Ex.- Austin is 5000 miles south of Dallas (made up) |
| Physical Charactics | Physical systems that interact the shape of the surface (volcanos and hurricanes) |
| Human-Environment interaction | how people affect the environment |
| Human Systems | People Shape the earth |
| Physical Systems | Land Masses and Natural Disasters |
| Plain | Flat land with small hills or none |
| Aquifers- definitions, names, locations | Underground Water resourses, Edwards Aquifer in Austin |
| Wrong way rivers | takes water from dry land to wet |
| Escarpments- Definitions, names | long cliff, Balcones Escarpment |
| Gulf of Mexico- Effects on climate | ocean breezes and rain in Texas |
| Precipitation/elevation- relationship | Elevation effects pricipitation because warm air holds more water than cold air |
| Metroplex cities | Major manufacturing and trade centers. |
| Buttes | Small, flat topped hills |
| Edwards Plateau | Section of the Great Plains |
| Erosion | When weathering wears away land |
| Basin | Saucer shaped depressions |
| Mountain and Basins- Population | Very sparsly settled, but does have large city El Paso |
| Land Bridge- Asia to America | Bering Strait, gone now |
| Archaeologists | Study past people and culture |
| Anthropoligists | Study Land |
| Archaic Age | Climate became warmer and dryer, large game animals disapeared |
| Hunter-Foragers | Hunters became farmers because no large game left |
| Effects of agriculture | More settled land because they didnt have to move around to hunt |
| Jumanos/ Comanches | Hunting and War |
| Native Americans- influence of the Spanich | They intermarried and adopted some of their ways of life |
| Goals of Spaniards | Convert Native Americans to catholic faith |
| Cabeza de Vaca | First European to enter Texas, crashed on Galveston and adopted the ways of Karankawas |
| Civola and Quivira | Cibola- Pueblo mistaken for a golden city, Quivira- supposed to have a large river with big fish and gold but wasnt there |
| Coronado | Leader of Expedition to Cibola, accompanied by Fray Marcos |
| Spanish and Rumors of La Salle's Fort | Spanish sent people to distroy French 'Mission', but it was deserted when they got to it. |
| Mission | Religious Outposts |
| Pueblo | Series of flat roofed buildings |
| Presidos | Military outposts |
| San Francisco De Los Tejas | First mission, was in East Texas |
| French vs. Spanish interests | Spanish wanted to settle E. Texas much more than French |
| San Antonio De Valero | The Alamo |
| Alcalde | Chief Offical |
| Ayuntamiento | city council |
| Mestizos | People of mixed Spanish and Native American Heritage. Looked down upon |
| Marques de Rubi | Spanish officer sent to investigate need for missions |
| Gil Ybarbo | The leader of East Texas, wanted to go home but not allowed to so sent to Trinity River |
| Louisiana Purchase | 1803, Doubled the size of US, $15 million |
| Adams-Onis Treaty | Settle and boundry dispute between US and Mexico |
| Philip Nolan/ Peter Ellis Bean | Nolan brought people to Texas when warned not to, Fight killed Nolan but Bean survived |
| Father Miguel Hidalgo | Issued first call for Mexican independance |
| Republican Army of the North | forces of Republic Government |
| Jean Lafitte | Pirate that took galveston form Aury |
| General Joaquin de Arredono | Commander of spanish forces in battle in 1813 |
| Jane Long | "Mother of Texas", had first Anglo American child in Texas |
| James Long | Filibuster who tried to free Texas from Spain |
| Baron de Bastrop | Helped SFA with Mexican government for settling Texas |
| Stephen F. Austin | Brought first US settlers to Texas |
| Austin Colony Requirements | Become citzens of Mexico, become Catholic, have good moral character,and be loyal |
| San Felipe | Official town in Texas |
| Saltillo/ Coahuila y Tejas | Saltillo- Capital of Coahuila. Coahuila- Texas and Coahuila together as one state |
| Terms of empresarios contracts | helps you get more land, $30= 4428 acres with a family |
| Federalists | Federal Government |
| Centralists | Dictators |
| Haden Edwards/Nacogdoches/Republic of Freedonia | Haden Edwards was granted land in Nachogdoches but there were already people there so he was angry and his brother, Ben, started the Republic of Freedonia to take Old Stone Fort |
| Law of April 6, 1830 | Stoped immagration from US to Texas |
| Constitution of 1824 | Texas wanted to be free from Coahuila, have better schools and postal service |
| Turtle Bayou Resolutions | Colonist declared their loyalty to Mexico |
| Santa Anna | Mexican Leader, First a Federalist, then a centralist |
| Convention of 1832 and 1833 | In 1832 they made these rules- No import taxes, better schools, US could immagrate. In 1833 they reinstated these rules |
| General Martin Perfecto de Cos | Santa Anna's brother in law, commander of Mexican forces in Coahuila |
| Lorenzo de Zavala | A distinguished Mexican politition, disloyal to Mexico |
| Battle of Gonzales | over a small canon, first battle of revolution, "Lexington of Texas" |
| Goliad | Texans wanted to capture a Presido |
| Consultation/ Provisional Government | Consultation- Meeting Provisional Government- Temperary Government |
| Declaration of the People | Texans said they were loyal to Mexico but not to Santa Anna |
| Ben Milam | Empressario, helped capture Goliad and marched with the Texas army to San Antonio |
| Juan Seguin | Texas native, supporter of Texas movement towardsindependence |
| Convention of 1836 | Elected chairman and secratary of meeting, then to write the Declaration of Independence |
| Texas Independence Day | March 2nd 1836 |
| Texas Constitution/ U.S. constitution | President, 3 Branches of Government, bill of rights, freedom of speech and religion, trial by jury, basic civil rights |
| Ad Interim Gov. | Temperary Government because of war |
| David G. Burnet | Early Pioneer, ad interium President |
| William F. Gray | Kept a diary at convention of 1836 |
| Lorenzo de Zavala | Elected Vice President of Texas unanamously |
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