The First Texas Troubles L21

10 Topics | 1 Quiz

7 Topics | 1 Quiz

Map of Texas, 1835

Friends and Foes, L22

Tricky in Texas, L22

Peace or War, L22

Austin goes to Mexico, L22

Austin Gets Manhandled, L22

The Tejano Conundrum L22

Calm Before the Storm Quiz 22

Santa Anna's Dictatorship L23

6 Topics | 1 Quiz

The Things They Carried

Santa Anna’s Mexico: The Dictatorship

A Dictator Rises, L23

Valentín Gómez Farías, The Pure Federalist

The Federalists Rebel, L23

The Texians get their Guns, L23

Santa Anna's Dictatorship Quiz 23

Texas Revolution 1835 L24

9 Topics | 1 Quiz

Ben and Jim

Cos…and Effect

On the Banks of the Guadalupe

Come and Take It!

The Battles for Bexar

Stephen F. Austin, a Changed Man . . .

General José Antonio Mexía and the Tampico Expedition

Texas Revolution, 1835

The Siege of Béxar

Texas Revolution Quiz 24

Matamoros, Alamo, Goliad L25

15 Topics | 1 Quiz

The San Antonio River Line

Fort Defiance

Fannin Loses His Nerve

Santa Anna’s invasion of Texas with his centralist army began a series of disasters for the Texian forces.

James C. Neil, Forgotten Hero of Texas

The San Antonio River Line Begins to Crumble

The Ejercito Mexicano, 1836

The Battle of the Alamo

The Alamo Assault

The Disaster at Coleto Creek

The Goliad Massacre

The Federalist and Centralist Civil War

Austin’s Map

The American Volunteers

The Texians Stand Down

Matamoros, Alamo, Goliad Lesson 25

San Jacinto Campaign L26

12 Topics | 1 Quiz

Ridding Texas of Perfidious Foreigners

The Runaway Scrape

The Fork in the Road

The Armies of San Jacinto

The Battle of San Jacinto

The Fateful Afternoon

Peace at Gunpoint

Show them the Exits

Texas Forms a Government

Sam Houston Forms an Army

The San Jacinto Campaign

Santa Anna’s Daliance

San Jacinto Campaign L26 Quiz

Texas, Mexico, and the Comanches L27

7 Topics | 1 Quiz

Poor Mexico

The Comanches on the Texas Frontier

Texas and the Comanches

Independent Texas: Now What?

The Buffalo, Slave, and Horse Business

Setting up the Republic of Texas

Mexico Distracted

Texas, Mexico, Comanches Quiz 27

The Indian Wars of the Republic of Texas L28

6 Topics | 1 Quiz

The Texas Rangers vs. the Comanches

Comanche Landmarks

M. B. Lamar, the Council House Fight, and the Linnville Raid

The Texas-Comanche War

The Fate of the East Texas Indians

The Texas Cherokees

Texas-Comanche War Quiz 28

The Texas-Mexican War L29

9 Topics | 1 Quiz

The Border War

The Last Days of the Republic of Texas

The Troubles Between New Mexico and Texas

The Disputed Border

The Voyages of the Texas Navies

The Lone Star Afloat

The Republic of Yucatán and the Republic of Texas: Allies

The Texas-Mexican War

Texas Mercenaries

Texas Mexico War Quiz 29

Annexation and U.S.–Mexican War L30

8 Topics | 1 Quiz

The US Eyes Mexico

The Mexican War

Friction between the US and Texas

The Lands Texas Gave Up

The Annexation of Texas

The Shape of Texas

The Annexation Vote

Texas and the US-Mexican War

Annexation and War in the North Quiz 30

Slavery and Texas L31

9 Topics | 1 Quiz

Slavery Fades in the North

Slavery Thrives in the South

Texas, an Empire for Slavery

Southerners Head West

Slavery by the Numbers

The Peculiar Institution

Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

Slave Auction Posting

The Expansion of Slavery

Slavery and Texas Quiz 31

End of The Comanche Empire L32

6 Topics | 1 Quiz

Death by Buffalo and Horses

Overwhelming Numbers

The Zenith of the Comanche Empire

The Warning Signs

Disasters

The Collapse

End of the Comanche Empire Quiz 32

The Texas Indian Frontier L33

6 Topics | 1 Quiz

Robert Simpson Neighbors

Revealing the Mystery

The US Army Arrives on the Texas Frontier

View of Fort Worth, 1849

The Second Line of Forts

The Northwest Texas Indian Reservations

The Texas Indian Frontier Quiz 33

Texas in the 1850s L34

8 Topics | 1 Quiz

Immigrants in Texas

Indianola

Making Money in Texas in the 1850s

Texas Gets Connected

Texas becomes a Southern State

The Cotton Kingdom

Slave Population Density

Life in Texas during the 1850s

Texas in the 1850s Quiz 34

Texas in the American Civil War L35

13 Topics | 1 Quiz

The Secession Vote

The Opening Guns

The Battle of Galveston

Texas Battlefields

The Fight for the Trans-Mississippi

Go Where the Fighting was Fiercest

Camp Ford

Johnathan B. Craig

Texas Monuments

What is at Stake in the Election of 1860?

Tom Green, Texan Anti-Revolutionary

Secession

Why Leave?

Civil War and Texas’ Role Quiz 35

Texas Caused the Civil War, and Won! L36

2 Topics | 1 Quiz

How Texas Won the Civil War

Our Honor, Our Rights

Texas Causing Civil War Quiz 36

Reconstruction L37

8 Topics | 1 Quiz

Congress Takes Over Reconstruction

Edmund J. Davis

Norris Wright Cuney

Freedmen’s Bureau Offices in Texas

Lincoln and the Question of Reconstruction

Cullen M. Baker

Reconstruction in Texas

The Men Who Burned Brenham

Reconstruction Quiz 37

Texas Looks to its Future L38

6 Topics | 1 Quiz

Galveston, Gateway to Texas

Famous Texas Feuds

The Failure of Reconstruction in Texas

The Comanche Revival

Captives

Bringing Order to Texas

Tamping Down Texas Quiz 38

The Army Returns to Texas L39

11 Topics | 1 Quiz

Policing the Frontier

The 9th US Cavalry

The 24th US Infantry

The 25th US Infantry

Ambush at Salt Creek Prairie

The 10th US Cavalry

Kiowas vs. Mexicans

Reoccupying the Texas Frontier

The United States Army after the American Civil War

The Third Line of Forts

The 4th United States Cavalry

Army Returns to Texas Quiz 39

The End of an Era L40

9 Topics | 1 Quiz

The Buffalo War

The Frontier Army

The Final Indian Campaigns in Texas

A New Map of Texas

A Blast from the Past

Ranald McKenzie: The Frontier Enforcer

Colonel McKenzie’s Campaigns

The Kickapoos and the Remolino Raid

Northwest Texas

The End of An Era Quiz 40

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