Texas history
Republic before statehood
Texas history is the study of the region's past, typically covering Native American civilizations, Spanish colonization, Mexican rule, the Texas Revolution, the Republic of Texas period (1836–1845), annexation by the United States, and statehood.
Often a required subject in Texas public schools: Every Texas kid learns Texas history in seventh grade.
- TejanosTexas-born Mexican Americans
- JuneteenthEmancipation anniversary celebration
- cattle drivesLong-distance livestock relocation
- carpetbaggersOutsiders exploiting local turmoil
- Spanish missionsColonial religious settlements
Santa Anna · Comanche · Sam Houston · oil boom · Apache · Caddo · Union blockade · scalawags · presidios · frontier settlement · Stephen F. Austin · Alamo · Chisholm Trail · cotton economy · sharecropping · cattle ranching · cattle baron · longhorn
- Wild Westcowboy, howdy, sheriff, giddyup, lawmen
- historyancient civilizations, past events, historian, epochs, era
- American HistoryAmerican Revolution, Revolutionary War, colonial era, founding fathers, Declaration of Independence
- Montgomery CountyBethesda, Rockville, Germantown, Wheaton, Potomac
Texas historyUnited States history
Record of American events
world history · Mexican history · European history · local history · city history