Texas History Exam Review

Which of the following was one of the first problems Texans from the United States had with their new nation of Mexico?

The dictatorial Constitution of 1824

The wholesale slaughter at the Alamo

Mexico made slavery illegal

Santa Anna killed William Barret Travis at Anahuac

Mexico made slavery illegal

The first shot of the Texas Revolution took place at

Gonzales

What was the Alamo origonally?

The Mission San Antonio de Valero, a Franciscan mission

Which pair became the commanders of the Alamo during Santa Anna’s siege of San Antonio?

Sam Houston and William B. Travis

Jim Bowie and William B. Travis

“Old” Ben Milam and Jim Bowie

Sam Houston and Davy Crockett

Jim Bowie and William B. Travis

How did Santa Anna fight against the forces at the Alamo?

With the red flag of “no quarter”(no mercy)

People urged each other to “Remember the Alamo!” What other fight did they remember in the same way?

Goliad

Very few people survived the Alamo. One of the best known was a woman named ____.

Susannah Dickinson

What happened after the battle of San Jancinto that would have a significant impact on the relations between Texas and Mexico?

The Texans held Santa Anna hostage until a peace treaty was achieved

What were the terms of the Treaties of Velasco?

Mexican forces would withdraw south of the Rio Grande and end hostilities

Who became the first president of the Republic of Texas?

Sam Houston

The Meir expedition, or “the bean incident”, occurred because ____.

Mexican forces continued to invade Texas

The Comanche became an especially challenging enemy because ____.

they mastered horsemanship

What was significant about the Gutierrez-Magee Expedition?

It was a failed fillibustering expedition attempting to seize Texas from Spain

Aside from the massacre at the Alamo, which massacre is best remembered from the Texas Revolution?

Goliad

What led to the Council House fight?

The discovery that the Comanche had tortured an Anglo captive

What is the significance of Fort St. Louis?

The Spanish feared the French were intruding on the Gulf Coast

What is the American Triad?

Corn, beans, and squash as the foundation of diet

What was the first battle of the Texas Revolution?

Gonzales

What was the Plan de Iguala?

The plan that established Mexican independence from Spain

Who was the first president of Texas?

Sam Houston

What is Cabeza de Vaca?

The name of the first Spaniard to explore Texas

Who were the empresarios?

Immigrants to Texas responsible for bringing more settlers to the area

What was the Texan response to the Constitution of 1824?

Texans liked its similarities to the US constitution and supported it

Why did the Spanish have missions on the frontier?

The Spanish hoped to convert the local Indian population

The missions served the soldiers in local garrisons

The mission served as churches for any settlers who might arrive

All of these answers are correct

All of these answers are correct

Why did the Spanish found La Bahia?

To keep out the French, who had built a fort on that site originally

What was the point of the Treaties of Velasco?

To require that Mexico move south of the Rio Grande

What did the Fredonian Revolt indicate?

That many new arrivals to Texas had very different ideas about how to do things

What was the goal of the Santa Fe Expedition?

To reinforce Texas control of New Mexico

One of the first problems Texans had with the Mexican government was ____.

the passage of a law making slavery illegal

Which of the following groups was created in Lampasas, Texas, to benefit farmers?

The Farmers Alliance

Which of the following institutions did farmers have problems with?

Banks

Railroads

Warehouses

All of these caused problems for struggling farmers

All of these caused problems for struggling farmers

What was the point of the subtreasury plan?

To provide help from overproducing farmers who wanted to avoid banks

True or False: Northern and southern farmers agreed on issues of race(specifically, including black farmers.)

False

Which political party emerged in the 1890s to represent farmers concerns on the local, state, and national level?

The People’s(Populist) Party

In 1896, Populists focused on Democratic presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan in the hopes he would get what they wanted. What was the primary issue Bryan and the Populists agreed upon?

Free(unlimited) coinage of silver

True or False: The defeat of Bryan also led to the end of the Populist Party

True

How did Jim Hogg reflect Populist tendencies in the 1890s?

He established the Texas Railroad Commission to protect the Texas economy

What led to the creation of “Kirby-Smithdom”?

The fall of Vicksburg, cutting off the western Confederacy at the Mississippi

What best describes the position of the Republican Party in Texas by the 1890s?

Aside from a few minor elections, no Republicans were elected

How did the Compromise of 1850 affect Texas?

It created the border as we know it

What is important about the Great Railroad Strike of 1886?

The Knights of Labor gained prominence in the state as a result

The Black Code were an attempt to ______.

restrict the roles African Americans could play in Texas society

The Cart Wars demonstrating increasing racial tension between:

Anglos and Tejanos

Anglos and African Americans

Tejanos and Comanche raiders

Tejanos and African Americans

Anglos and Tejanos

What was the goal of the subtreasury plan?

Provide farmers needed opportunity to rid of themselves of debt without relying on banks

What did the “Texas Troubles” encourage many Texans to do?

Call for secession from the United States

What was the goal of the New Mexico campaign?

To take New Mexico for the Confederacy

What is distinctive about the Farmers Alliance?

Many of its ideas became apart of the Populist Party

It supported the subtreasury plan

It was created in Texas

All of these are true

All of these are true

Which of the following is true about farmers in the late nineteenth century?

Their primary crop was corn

Because of the changing economy, many farmers were or became sharecroppers

Very few Texans were involved in farming : most went into industry or cattle

Agriculture boomed for farmers after Reconstruction

Because of the changing economy, many farmers were or became sharecroppers

True or False: The Mexican War was the result of Texas Annexation

True

Texas lost Galveston to the Union Army for the remainder of the war

False

True or False: The best-known, and one of the earliest, cattle trails in Texas was the Goodnight-loving trail

False

True or False: The Constitution of 1869 was the product of Republicans in power in Texas during Reconstruction

True

True or False: Juneteenth commemorates the day Texas surrendered to the Union

False

True or False: The Amnesty Act of 1872 made t possible for Democrats to regain control of Texas state government, thereby ending Reconstruction

True

True or False: One major point of political argument in the late 19th century was over the prohibition of alcohol

True

True or False: The use of barbed wire was so contentious that Texans fought over its use

True

True or False: Being an agricultural state saved Texas from the effects of the New Deal

False

True or False: The Dust Bowl worsened the Depression in East Texas

False

True or False: Emma Tenayuca became known for urging communist overthrow of Texas state government 1932

False

True or False: African-Americans and Tejanos felt the impact of the depression more due to racial prejudices

True

Which of the following New Deal programs helped Texas during the depression?

The Civilian Conservation Corps(CCC)

The Works Progress Administration(WPA)

The National Youth Administration(NYA)

All of these provided jobs for Texas

All of these provided jobs for Texas

Which of the following Texas politicians began his career by working with Roosevelts New Deal?

Martin Dies

Dwight D. Eisenhower

W. Lee “Pappy” O’Daniel

Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson

What group emerged to challenge racial restrictions in Texas?

Both are correct

Neither are correct

NAACP

LULAC

Both are correct

What group were strikers largely from in 1938?

Pecan Shellers in San Antonio

Which of the following programs helped struggling Texas farmers?

Social Security

The National Recovery Administration

The Revenue Act

The Resettlement Administration

The Resettlement Administration

Which of the following is a good example of how the Works Progress Administration impacted Texas?

It provided relief insurance to needy families

It taught farmers soil conservation methods

The program was used to build Fair Park

The WPA was never implemented in Texas because it was too socialistic

The program was used to build Fair Park

What did Smith V. Allwright accomplish?

It declared white primaries to be unconstitutional

What happened as a result of the Red River War?

The Comanche surrendered and moved onto US reservations

Why did the Zimmerman Telegram upset Texans?

It threatened to return Texas to Mexico

Nixon V. Herndon was the first of many court cases challenging ____

the white primary

What is “hot oil”?

Oil produced over the quota limits established by the government

What did the Galveston Plan accomplish?

It established a more efficient system of government

It set a pattern for American cities across the country

All of these are true

It helped Galveston recover from the Hurricane of 1900

All of these are true

What made Emma Tenayuca controversial?

She was a prominent voice for Hispanic laborers during the depression

Upon what platform did Jim Ferguson win his race for governor?

He called for the rights of tenant farmers to be respected

What is Spindletop?

The first oil gusher in Texas

Why might someone in Texas support prohibition?

Because they were conservative religiously

The goal of the bracero program was ____.

to provide agricultural workers during the war

What was one way for farmers to improve their situation during the depression?

Creating a “Cotton Holiday” to raise crop prices

Why do we care about Miriam “Ma” Ferguson?

She was the first female governor elected

How did poll taxes impact Texas voters?

African Americans who couldn’t afford it were kept from voting

Poor whites who couldn’t afford it were kept from voting

Both are correct

Neither are correct

Both are correct

How did the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s differ from the version that existed during reconstruction?

It focused on broader standards of morality, not just on racial issues

What was the Big Swing?

The route taken by migrant workers following the cotton harvest

What caused the Dust Bowl?

Overplowing during a drought

Who were the Buffalo Soldiers?

African American soldiers who worked on the frontier

Before “Pappy” O’Daniel ran for governor, what did he do for a living?

Flour salesman on the radio

The Texas Regulars were against _____.

New Deal Policies

What was Lyndon Johnson’s first choice of careers?

Schoolteacher

What led in part to Johnson’s turn to politics?

The Great Depression and the New Deal

True or False: Johnson became vice president because his run for presidency failed

True

True or False: After Kennedy’s death, Johnson refused to use the late president’s legacy to pass legislation, saying it would be exploitative

False

What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 accomplish?

It outlawed all segregation

Johnson’s call for a “Great Society” led to

the most legislation passed since the New Deal

Much of the motivation behind the Great Society came from

Johnson’s time teaching students in poverty

Although Johnson wanted his legacy to be the Great Society, what dominated others opinion of him instead?

Johnsons involvement in Vietnam

Because f Vietnam, what did Johnson decide to do?

Not run for another term as president

What was the second name of LBJ’s ranch, to which he later retired?

The Texas White House