texas history

Essay #1 will cover the time period of early Texas through the Texas Revolution. Choose a topic from the following list.

• Indians of Texas (you may single out one tribe or report on all of them as a group)
• Explorers of Texas (you may single out one explorer or report on them as a group)
• The Texas Revolution (Battles, Heroes, weapons of war)
• Cattle (cattle barons, cattle drives, ranching)
• The Mexican-American War
• Texas Statehood
• The Civil War in Texas
• Reconstruction in Texas

Essay #2 will cover the time period of Texas from post revolution to the present. It will be the student’s choice of topics from the following list:

• Populism
• Closing of the Frontier
• Progressivism
• World War I
• Oil Industry
• Great Depression and the New Deal
• World War II
• Modern Texas (cities, politics, famous people)