TEKS Expectation 7.3B

7.3B Explain the roles played by significant individuals during the Texas Revolution, including George Childress, Lorenzo de Zavala, James Fannin, Sam Houston, Antonio López de Santa Anna, Juan N. Seguín, and William B. Travis.

Belongs to Statement 7.3: The student understands how individuals, events, and issues related to the Texas Revolution shaped the history of Texas.

Teach this expectation using entries from our Handbook

Our Handbook entries are written by volunteer historians and professionals, reviewed by TSHA staff, vetted by scholars, and approved by the TSHA Chief Historian.

Important Individuals

Teacher & Community Submitted Resources

Title
Letter from James Cramp, December 12, 1835
#100 Circular to the Public from Council
1857 Petition by Heirs
1861 Petition by Heirs
A History of Smith County, Texas
A History of Trinity County Texas, 1827 to 1928
A Memorial and Biographical History of Navarro, Henderson, Anderson, Limestone, Freestone and Leon Counties, Texas
A New History of Texas for Schools -1895
A Pictorial History of Texas, from the Earliest Visits of European Adventurers, to A.D. 1879
A Revolution Rembered: The Memoirs and Selected Correspondence of Juan N. Seguin
A Southern Community in Crisis: Harrison County, Texas, 1850-1880
A Texas Scrap-book
A Texas Scrap-Book: Made Up of the History, Biography, and Miscellany of Texas and Its People
A Thumb-nail History of the City of Houston, Texas, from Its Founding in 1836 to the Year 1912
A Wild and Vivid Land: An Illustrated History of the South Texas Border
A Witness to Westward Expansion
Adairs Texas Pictorial Handbook
Alamo de Parras
Alamo Lesson Plan - 7th Grade
Almonte's Texas: Juan N. Almonte's 1834 Inspection, Secret Report and Role in the 1836 Campaign
Almonte's Texas: Juan N. Almonte's 1834 Inspection, Secret Report, and Role in the 1836 Campaign
Almontes Texas: Juan N. Almontes 1834 Inspection, Secret Report, and Role in the 1836 Campaign
An Authentic Account of the Battle of San Jacinto
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
Arnie Armadillo and the Texas Heroes - Samuel 'Sam' Houston
Austin Treasures-Online Exhibits
Battle flag said to have been captured from Santa Anna at San Jacinto
BATTLE FOR TEXAS: The Experience
Battle of San Jacinto
Bet You Didn't Know: Texas
Biographical Encyclopedia of Texas
Biographical notes on Lorenzo de Zavala
Biography of José Antonio Navarro / Written by an Old Texan.
Biography of Lorenzo de Zavala taken from book by Francisco Sosa titled: Biografias de Mexicanos Distinguidos
Biography of Private Alfonso Steele
Biography of Thomas M. Bagby and descendants
Carlos Espalier
Casa Navarro State Historic Site Activity Guide
Causes of the Revolution-Mexican/Texan Talk it Out
Celebrating the Adoption of the Texas Declaration of Independence, March 2, 1936
Celtaire String Band - Living History through Music & the Military
Circular from the Committee of Safety of the Jurisdiction of Austin
Colonial Challenges Austin Faced
Colonization Through Annexation
Comparing the American and Texas Revolutions
Constitution of the Republic of Texas (1836)
Contours of Discovery: Printed Maps Delineating the Texas and Southwestern Chapters in the Cartographic History of North America
Convention of 1836
Copy of letter from Zavala to Mexia, May 26, 1836
Curriculum Guide for Teaching Texas History
Davy Crockett
De-Mystifying Religion for Classroom Teachers: Teaching About Jews, Judaism, and Religious Diversity
Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Texas (1836)
Deconstructing History: The Alamo
DeWitt Colony Papers: Documents and Correspondence for 1829 - 1834
DeWitt Colony Papers: Documents and Correspondence for 1835
DeWitt Colony Papers: Documents and Correspondence for 1836
Diary of Col. William Fairfax Gray
Documents of Texas History
Early Texas
El Llano Estacado: Exploration and Imagination on the High Plains of Texas and New Mexico, 1536-1860
El Mesquite
Election Returns
Erasmo and Juan Seguin
Erasmo and Juan Seguin
Erastus Smith
Fannins Fight
Financing the Texas Revolution
Formal statement regarding colonization of families in Texas, March 19, 1836
Fort Davis: Outpost on the Texas Frontier
Fort Lancaster: Texas Frontier Sentinel
Fredonian Rebellion
Freiheitskampf in Texas im Jahr 1836
From San Antonio to the Panhandle: Texas Pioneer Women
Galveston: A History and a Guide
General Antonio López de Santa Anna
General Vicente Filisola’s Analysis of Jose Urrea’s Military Diary: A Forgotten 1838 Publication by an Eyewitness ...
George Childress
Giants of Texas History Online Exhibit
Ground plan of Fort Defiance, La Bahia Mission
Guide for Lesson Plans: Excerpts from Curriculum Guide for Texas History
Handbook of African American Texas
Harriett Joseph
Heritage, Volume 4 2007
Historical Map Collection
History in Person Theater
History of Texas: from Its First Settlement in 1685 to Its Annexation to the United States in 1846, Volume 1
History of the Revolution in Texas
Honor and Integrity: Sam Houston
Houston's Final Days
Houstons Account of San Jacinto to David Burnett
I Would Rather Sleep In Texas: A History of the Lower Rio Grande Valley and the People of the Santa Anita Land Grant
Image Gallery for the Curriculum Guide For Teaching Texas History
Immigration to Texas: Then and Now
Introduction to Stephen F. Austin
Introduction to the Tavern Stage of Texas Gunfights
Introduction to the Tavern Stage of Texas Gunfights
J. Benito Camacho February 18th, 1835
James Bowie
James Bowie's Mexican Land Grant Application, 1830
James Walker Fannin Jr.
John C. Logan Unit: Introductoin
Jose Francisco Ruiz
José Domingo Ugartechea, Principal Commandant of Texas to Political Chief at San Felipe de Austin
Juan Antonio Padilla
Juan N. Seguin
Land and Liberty: The Saga of Sam McCulloch
Land grant title to John Bevil granted by Lorenzo de Zavala, October 29, 1834
Lesson Ideas for A Destined Conflict Lesson Plan
Letter from (Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna) to Lorenzo de Zavala, December 30, 1828
Letter from (Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna) to Lorenzo de Zavala, October 07, 1829
Letter from Alcalde to Political Chief-March 24th, 1835
Letter from Anthony Dey, May 5, 1834
Letter from Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna to Lorenzo de Zavala, April 12, 1829
Letter from Baradere to Valentin Gomez Farias, April 2, 1836
Letter from Burnet to Zavala April 22nd 1836
Letter from Casanueva to Zavala, December 18, 1830
Letter from Casanueva to Zavala, November 27, 1830
Letter from Frank Johnson to Julia Zavala, July 24, 1882
Letter from Lorenzo de Zavala Jr. to unknown person, enclosed with letter to W.E. Hutchison, July 1, 1879
Letter from Lorenzo de Zavala to Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, March 14, 1829
Letter from Lorenzo de Zavala to Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, September 13, 1828
Letter from Lorenzo de Zavala to Burnet-September 11, 1836
Letter from Lorenzo de Zavala to Guadalupe Victoria, August 31, 1828
Letter from Lorenzo de Zavala to Guadalupe Victoria, September 26, 1828
Letter from Lorenzo de Zavala to his son, May 28, 1836
Letter from Lorenzo de Zavala to Jose Maria Gallegos, January 03, 1830
Letter from Lorenzo de Zavala to Jose Maria Lobato, December 20, 1828
Letter from Lorenzo de Zavala to Juan de Dios Canedo, September 1, 1828
Letter from Lorenzo de Zavala to Manuel Mier y Teran, June 24, 1829
Letter from Lorenzo de Zavala to Miguel Ramos de Arizpe, May 29, 1827
Letter from Lorenzo de Zavala to Santa Anna, March 4, 1829
Letter from Lorenzo de Zavala to Valentin Gomez Farias, July 7, in person, May 07, 1828
Letter from Lorenzo de Zavala to Valentin Gomez Farias, October 11, 1834
Letter from Lorenzo de Zavala to Valentin Gomez Farias, September 1, 1828
Letter from Lorenzo de Zavala to Vicente Guerrero, September 1, 1827
Letter from Manuel Ordiera to Santa Anna, June 26, 1833
Letter from Manuel to Veramendi, September 30, 1829
Letter from Martin Perfecto de Cos to Political Chief of Nacogdoches, August 8, 1835
Letter from Martín Perfecto de Cos to Commandant General June 17th 1835
Letter from Mexia to Zavala, April 17, 1833
Letter from Mexia to Zavala, April 20, 1833
Letter from Mexia to Zavala, February 13, 1833
Letter from Mexia to Zavala, February 20, 1833
Letter from Mexia to Zavala, February 22, 1833
Letter from Mexia to Zavala, February 23, 1833
Letter from Mexia to Zavala, January 1, 1833
Letter from Mexia to Zavala, January 16, 1833
Letter from Mexia to Zavala, January 17, 1833
Letter from Mexia to Zavala, January 22, 1833
Letter from Mexia to Zavala, January 4, 1833
Letter from Mexia to Zavala, March 15, 1833
Letter from Mexia to Zavala, November 18, 1832
Letter from Miguel Ramos Arizpe to Lorenzo de Zavala, May 26, 1827
Letter from Moreau Forrest to Mary Forrest, Houston, Texas, August 23, 1837
Letter from Political Chief of Nacogdoches to Archivaldo Hopkins-January 16, 1835
Letter from Political Chief to Lorenzo Zavala-October 6, 1835
Letter from Santa Anna to Zavala, April 18, 1829
Letter from Santa Anna, August 4, 1829
Letter from Zavala to Mexia, May 26, 1836
Life of General Houston, 1793-1863
Life of Lorenzo de Zavala by Mary Jane Harris Briscoe
Life of Sam Houston Interactive Timeline
Lone Star Leadership Academy
Lorenzo de Zavala
Lorenzo de Zavala
Lorenzo de Zavala Online: Empresario, Statesman and Texas Revolutionary
Manifest Destiny and the Texas Revolution
McKinney Falls: The Ranch Home of Thomas F. McKinney, Pioneer Texas Entrepreneur
Memorial and Biographical History of Ellis County
Memorias para la historia de la guerra de Tejas, Vol. 1
Memorias para la historia de la guerra de Tejas, Vol. 2
Mexican Americans In Texas History: Selected Essays
Mexican Texas to Independence
Mexico and Her Military Chieftains
Mirabeau B. Lamar Travel Journal, 1835
More Famous Gunfights and Locations
Moses and Stephen F. Austin in Texas
Native Texans
New Texas History Movies
No-Sew Texas Quilt
Opinion de Don Lorenzo de Zavala
Papers concerning Robertsons Colony in Texas, Volume 10
Peg Leg: The Improbable Life of a Texas Hero, Thomas William Ward, 1807-1872
Photo of Battle of San Jacinto Survivors
Photo of Survivors of Battle of San Jacinto
Photograph of veterans of the Texas Revolution in 1836
Polk orders American troops into disputed territory
Presidents of the Republic of Texas
Proceedings of a Meeting of the Citizens of Nashville, Tenn., in favor of Recognizing the Independence of Texas
Proclamation of Sam Houston, A Call for Volunteers, December 12, 1835
Promissory Note from Santa Anna, 1866
Rangers and the Texas Revolution Lesson Plan (Grade 7)
Real History....Real People
Refugio Mission
Remember Goliad! A History of La Bahia
Remember the Alamo
Remember the Alamo, 1836
Revista del Armamento y Montura que Marcha a la Capital de Monclova, 1835
Sam Houston
Sam Houston at San Jacinto
Sam Houston Museum-Virtual Tour
Sam Houston's Copy of His Official Report of the Battle of San Jacinto
Sam Houston: American Statesman, Soldier, and Pioneer
Sam Houstons Texans
Samuel Houston
San Jacinto App
Santa Anna
Santa Anna]s Manifesto of 1837 on the Texas Campaign
Sea of Mud: Mexican Army after San Jacinto
Sea of Mud: The Retreat of the Mexican Army after San Jacinto, An Archeological Investigation
Sidney Sherman
Sons of the DeWitt Colony, Texas
Stephen F. Austin
Stephen F. Austin in Texas
Stephen F. Austin: Empresario of Texas: Texas Talk Questions and Answers
Stories of Texas Women: Flag Makers of the Texas Revolution
Surrender of Santa Anna: The Day After the Battle of San Jacinto, April 22nd, 1836
Sworn statement prepared by Elijah Stapp
Tejanos Through Time - TSHA ebook
Texans and Their State; a Newspaper Reference Work
Texas 175: A Dozen Documents That Made A Difference
Texas and the Texans; or, Advance of the Anglo-Americans to the South-West; including a history of leading events in Mexico
Texas Declaration of Independence
Texas Declaration of Independence
Texas Digital Newspaper Program
Texas Forts
Texas History Coloring Book
Texas History Looping Cards
Texas History Mini-Qs from The DBQ Project
Texas History Movie
Texas History Practice Cards
Texas History Snippets Interactive Map: Roads and Places of the Texas Revolution
Texas History Stories, Number 4: The Alamo, Remember Goliad, Story of San Jacinto.
Texas Originals: Carlos E. Castañeda
Texas Originals: Clara Driscoll
Texas Originals: Juan Seguín
Texas Originals: Mary Austin Holley
Texas Originals: Miriam "Ma" Ferguson
Texas Originals: William Barret Travis
Texas Pioneer Women: Enterprising Women in the West
Texas Pioneer Women: Legacies
Texas Pioneer Women: Mexican Era
Texas Pioneer Women: Q&A
Texas Pioneer Women: Spanish Era
Texas Pioneer Women: Statehood Era
Texas Talk with State Historian of Texas Bill O'Neal: Gunslingers in Texas
Texas Talk: Dr. Gregg Cantrell Speaks on Stephen F. Austin's Early Life
Texas Talks with Dr. Frank de la Teja: Spanish Missions in Texas
Texas Talks with Dr. Frank de la Teja: Spanish Missions in Texas
Texas Talks with Dr. Gregg Cantrell Stephen F. Austin: Empresario of Texas: Full Texas Talk
Texas Talks with the State Historian of Texas Bill O'Neal: Conclusion
Texas Talks with the State Historian of Texas Bill O'Neal: Question and Answers
Texas Talks: Bill O'Neal From the Alamo to San Jacinto, An introduction, Part 1
Texas Talks: Bill O'Neal From the Alamo to San Jacinto, Questions and Answers
Texas Talks: Bill O'Neal on the Alamo Prepares for Battle, Part 2
Texas Talks: Bill O'Neal on the Battle of San Jacinto, Part 6
Texas Talks: Bill O'Neal on the Fall of the Alamo, Part 4
Texas Talks: BIll O'Neal on the Runaway Scrape, Part 5
Texas Talks: Billl O'Neal From the Alamo to San Jacinto, Full Webinar
Texas Talks: Gregg Dimmick discusses the Tensions Regarding the Returning of the Gonzales' Cannon.
Texas Talks: Talking Tejano History, Companias Volantes, Part 4
Texas Talks: Talking Tejano History, Emma Tenayuca, Part 5
Texas Talks: Talking Tejano History, Jose de la luz Saenz, Part 3
Texas Talks: Talking Tejano History, Mexican Independence, Part 6
Texas Talks: Talking Tejano History, The Tejano Monument, Part 2
Texas Talks: Talking Tejano History, The TSHA Handbook of Tejano History, Part 1
The Alamo
The Alamo and the Old Army
The Alamo in Myth and History
The Alamo-Remembering Through Education (7th grade packet)
The Alamo: Building a Scale Model (7th grade)
The Alamo: Movie Review and Student Handout
The Arrest of Stephen F. Austin and the Seeds of Texas Independence
The Ballad of the Alamo-Brian Burns
The Battle of San Jacinto
The Battle of San Jacinto
The Battle of San Jacinto (4th grade)
The Battle of San Jacinto (7th grade)
The Battle of the Alamo
The Declaration with Plan and Powers of the Provisional Government of Texas (1836)
The Encyclopedia of Texas, Volume 1
The Evolution of Early "Six Shooter" Technology
The Fall of the Alamo; an Historical Drama in Four Acts; Concluded by an Epilogue Entitled, the Battle of San Jacinto
The Goliad Massacre: 360° Web Film
The History of Greater Dallas and Vicinity, Vol. 1
The History of Texas: Or, the Emigrants, Farmers and Politicians Guide to the Character, Climate, Soil and Productions ...
The Houston Family Album
The Houston Story
The Indian Papers of Texas and the Southwest, 1825-1916
The Joseph Bonnell Story (Long Version)
The Joseph Bonnell Story (Short Version)
The Memoirs of Santa Anna
The Ordinary or Extraordinary Men of the Convention of 1836
The Portable Handbook of Texas
The Saga of Sam McCulloch
The Sam Houston Project
The Samuel May Williams Home: The Life and Neighborhood of an Early Galveston Entrepreneur
The Seige of Bexar
The Story of Corpus Christi
The Story of Davy Crockett as told by Himself
The Story of Texas Edcator Guide: Second Floor - Building the Lone Star Identity
The Texas Declaration of Independence
The Texas Republic: A Social and Economic History
The Texas Revolution
The Texas Revolution
The Texas Revolution
The Texas Revolution: An Overview
The Treaties of Velasco
The US-Mexican War
The war in Texas; a review of facts and circumstances, showing that this contest is a crusade against Mexico
Travis Letter by Willie Nelson
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
True Veterans of Texas. An Account of the Battle of San Jacinto.
Two views on Texas Worksheet
Tyranny on the Southern Plains: Remember the Alamo
Veteran Bond
Victory Or Death: The Travis Letter Lesson Plan
When Texas Was Young
Why We Care About Sam Houston
William B. Travis
William B.Travis and James Butler Bonham
Women Across Texas History
Women In Early Texas

TEKS Expectation 7.3B

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