Bullock Texas State History Museum, Austin, Texas, USA
The museum is dedicated to interpreting the continually unfolding “Story of Texas” to the broadest possible audience through meaningful educational experiences.
Bullock Texas State History Museum: 1800 Congress Ave., Austin, Texas, USA
The Bullock Texas State History Museum includes three floors of exhibitions, an IMAX® with Laser theater, a 4D special effects theater, café, and museum store. The Museum collaborates with more than 700 museums, libraries, archives, and individuals to display original historical artifacts and produce dynamic exhibitions that illuminate and celebrate Texas history and culture.
The meaning of the word “Texas.”
The first European immigrants in Texas is Canary Islanders.
European history in North America always starts with the Indians.
European arrives in North America.
The early European explorer of Texas was a French, La Salle.
La Belle was one of Robert de La Salle’s four ships when he explored the Gulf of Mexico with the ill-fated mission of starting a French colony at the mouth of the Mississippi River in 1685. La Belle was wrecked in present-day Matagorda Bay the following year, dooming La Salle’s Texas colony to failure.
La Belle
The compasses they used
After the French, the Spanish came.
They build missions
and ranches
Some worked as a soldier
There were many different Indian tribes living in the region.
Crashes between the Indians and the Europeans.
How Texas was formed
Another view of La Belle
Mexico earned independence from Spain. Mexico started to colonize Texas.
More Anglos moved to Texas, and they outnumbered Mexicans.
The Texans demanded independence from Mexico.
The war between Texans and Mexico.
Texas won the war. Remember the war at Alamo?
Another view of La Belle. They used this small boat to cross the Atlantic.
Independent Texas
Texas was a slave-owning nation because of its vast cotton farm. Racism and white supremacy are ingrained in Texas culture.
Many immigrated to Texas from Mexico and Europe, but the majority of Texans, who are Southern Anglos, limited the newcomers from different backgrounds than theirs.
Texas became a state of the United States.
War between the US and Mexico
Texas was able to prosper because of the cotton farming by enslaved blacks.
During the Civil War, Texas joined with the South
End of the Civil War
Texas resisted changes to the black slave rules.
Modernization of Texas
