Unit 1: Think Like a Historian

• Locating and obtaining sources of information (primary & secondary sources)

• Identifying cause and effect relationships

• Importance of historical context

• Differentiation between factual and non-factual/biased information

Unit 2: Geography and Native Americans of Texas

• Map reading skills

• Major landforms, bodies of water, and the atmosphere of Texas

• Breakdown of the Texas' sub regions: the Coastal Plains, Great Plains, Mountains & Basins, and North Central Plains

• Overview of the Native Americans of Texas such as the Apache, Caddo, Comanche, Wichita, and more

Unit 3: Exploration & Early Colonization of Texas

• Spanish arrival into Texas

• The search for gold in Texas

• Life in the Spanish Colonies of Texas

• The Coronado, DeSoto, La Salle, & Niza Expeditions

• "Filibusteros"

• Effects of the Mexican War of Independence on Texas

• End of Spanish rule in Texas

Unit 4: Mexican Colonization and the Empresario System

• Overview of Anglos and Tejanos

• Texas settlement during the 1820s & 1830s

• The Empresario System

• The Old Three Hundred

• Population of Texas between the early 1820s & mid 1830s

• Life in Mexican Texas

Unit 5: The Texas Revolution

• The Fredonian Rebellion

• Important events and factors that contributed to the outbreak of the Texas Revolution

• Causes and effects of the Battle of Coleto, Gonzalez, and Refugio

• A New Mexican Government and Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna

• Convention of 1832

• Influence and role of individuals like Stephen F. Austin and Sam Houston

• Major battles of the Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo & Battle of San Jacinto

• Convention of 1836

• The Runway Scrape

   

Unit 6: Republic of Texas and Early Statehood

• Early challenges of the Republic of Texas

• Annexation of Texas

• Presidencies of Sam Houston & Mirabeau B. Lamar

• Texas Capitals

• Texas Republic foreign policy

• People of the Republic of Texas

• Life during the Republic of Texas and early statehood

• Constitution of Texas

• Impact of the Mexican-American War on Texas

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Role of early political parties in Texas 

Unit 7: Texas During the Civil War & Reconstruction Era

• Development of slavery in Texas and the U.S.

• Enslaved Peoples of Texas (slavery in Texas)

• How growing division and sectionalism leads to the Civil War

• Texas secedes from the Union

• Overview of the Confederacy and the Union

• Major battles and events during the Civil War

• The Civil War in Texas

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Reconstruction Era and the Reconstruction Era in Texas

• Governor Davis' Administration

• Post-Reconstruction Texas

   

Unit 8: Cotton, Cattle, Railroads, & the Texas Frontier

• The Frontier Wars

• Texas Native Americans on Reservations

• Causes and effects of the Texas cattle boom

• Cowboy way of life

• A new breed of cattle - the Longhorn

• Closing of the Texas Frontier

• Advances in agriculture and farming in Texas

• Rise of railroads and cotton in Texas

Unit 9: Age of Oil and Reform in Texas (1900-1929)

• Discovery of oil in Texas

• The Texas Oil Boom & Texas Boomtowns

• Impact of the oil industry in Texas

• Age of Reform in Texas

• Role of trusts and monopolies and the influence of big business on government

• Populist Party and its influence in Texas

• Southern Farmers Alliance

• Establishment and role of the Texas Railroad Commission

• Overview of Texas Reformer Governors

• Progressive Movement in Texas

• Urbanization in Texas

• Texas & World Events such as WWI

• Texas during post-WWI

   

Unit 10: Texas during the Great Depression & WWII 

• Impact of the Great Depression in Texas

• The Dust Bowl

• Effects of the New Deal on Texas and Texans

• Outbreak of WWII

• Rise of Dictatorships

• Allied & Axis Powers

• U.S. involvement during WWII in the European and Pacific Theatres of War

• Major battles of WWII 

• Concentration Camps and the Holocaust 

• The Atomic Bomb & Japanese Surrender

• Texans' involvement in WWII

• POW and Internment camps in Texas during WWII

• Post-WWI Era in Texas between 1945-1950s

   

Unit 11: The Cold War, Civil Rights Movement, & Conservatism 

• Outbreak of the Cold War & rise of communism

• Major Cold War conflicts such as the Korean War & Vietnam War

• Notable Texans who served during the Cold War

• Texas economy during the Cold War

• The Civil Rights Movement

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Texas and the Civil Rights Movement

• Chicano labor movement

• Evolution of Texas politics between the 1940s and into the 2000s

• Texans in the White House (presidencies of Lyndon B. Johnson, George H.W. Bush, & George W. Bush)

   

Unit 12: Contemporary Texas

• Urbanization of Texas between 1950 to Today

• Characteristics & challenges of urbanization in Texas

• The Modern Texas economy

• Causes and effects of the 1970s oil boom in Texas

• Causes and effects of the 1980s oil bust in Texas

• Trade and diversification of the Texas economy

• Growing population of Texas

• Contributing factors of Texas' population growth

• Diversity of Texas' population

• Future of energy and water in Texas

• Texas and globalization

   

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