Slide 1 Slide 2   Historians divide the past into eras so it is easier to identify cause and effect of the great events/people in history.  To present there are…

Slide 1 2.007 County Sheriff Kelly Rowe Slide 2 County Sheriff TheOffice of The Office of Phase II: 2.007 Slide 3 Objectives Summarize History Describe Constitutional and…

Slide 1 Slide 2 Amy KonopinskiNick Hernandez Andy HostetlerAmanda Wolke Jim Swetter 0 Slide 3 What Started The Mexican War?  In 1845 Texas became a state. After this Mexico…

Slide 1 1.2 Culture Notes Fill in your notes according to the pink words. Slide 2 Tejana Music Tejano/tejana: Texan A style of music that reflects the combination of 3 different…

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Slide 1 Bell Ringer! What do you see in this images? List everything you observe. What is the artist’s message? Negative impacts? Slide 2 Manifest Destiny – it is “obvious”,…

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Slide 1 “Remember the Alamo” Slide 2 Slide 3 10.1 Remember the Alamo At San Antonio, command was past down to James Neill James Fannin was commanding a force at Goliad…

Slide 1 Battles of the Texas Revolution Slide 2 Sam Houston  Appointed major general of Texas Army by in November, 1835  Days after Texas declared its independence…

Slide 1 Slide 2  On July 8, 1853, Commodore Matthew Perry led a small fleet of American warships into Edo Bay, in Japan. › Japan had been almost a closed country for…