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Questions & Answers
1. Texas’s varied ______ accounts for some of its past and present diversity.
A. labor demand
B. economy
C. physiography
D. resources
Correct Answer: C. physiography
2. Which Texas environmental subregion contains the Rolling Plains, Grand Prairie, and Cross
Timbers near modern Fort Worth?
A. Interior Lowland
B. North American Great Plains
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C. Basin and Range
D. Coastal Plains
Correct Answer: A. Interior Lowland
3. Which Indigenous tribe fished and planted crops along the Gulf Coast?
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A. the Comanche
B. the Caddo
C. the Karankawa
D. the Alabama−Coushatta
Correct Answer: C. the Karankawa
4. Which federally recognized tribe of Indigenous persons has reservations in Texas today?
A. Comanche
B. Kickapoo
C. Jumano
D. Apache
Correct Answer: B. Kickapoo
5. When the Spanish ruled Texas, children born from parents from differing ethnic groups were
known as ______.
A. mestizo
B. peninsular
C. alcalde
D. criollo
Correct Answer: A. mestizo
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6. In 1685, the ______ established a short-lived settlement on Matagorda Bay.
A. Spanish
B. English
C. French
D. Dutch
Correct Answer: C. French
7. After 1803, which nation controlled territory immediately to the east of Spanish Texas?
A. France
B. the United Kingdom
C. the United States
D. Portugal
Correct Answer: C. the United States
8. In 1860, the term ______ referred to the 10% of enslavers who “owned” more than 20 enslaved
people.
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A. empresarios
B. filibusters
C. planters
D. criollos
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Correct Answer: C. planters
9. In 1820, men who launched private invasions into Mexico to seize land were referred to as
______.
A. Texians
B. filibusters
C. empresarios
D. alcaldes
Correct Answer: B. filibusters
10. In 1833, ______ became Mexican president and instituted a centralized government, reducing
the autonomy of the states.
A. Anastacio Bustamante
B. Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
C. Manuel de Mier y Terán
D. Antonio López de Santa Anna
Correct Answer: D. Antonio López de Santa Anna
11. After which battle did Antonio López de Santa Anna promise to recognize the Republic of
Texas, ending the Texas Revolution?
A. Gonzales
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B. the Alamo
C. San Jacinto
D. Goliad
Correct Answer: C. San Jacinto
12. Immigrants of which ethnicity made strides to have a peaceful relationship with the Indigenous
peoples around Fredericksburg?
A. Spanish
B. French
C. German
D. Czech
Correct Answer: C. German
13. “It is the will of God that we shall take over this land and bring the rewards of civilization to it.”
Which mid-nineteenth-century term, coined by John L. O’Sullivan and the catchphrase for westward
expansion, is accurately described by this statement?
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A. manifest destiny
B. empresario
C. Reconstruction
D. Jim Crow
Correct Answer: A. manifest destiny
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14. Texas’s annexation to the United States in 1845 was accomplished in the waning days of which
U.S. president’s administration?
A. Andrew Jackson
B. James K. Polk
C. Abraham Lincoln
D. John Tyler
Correct Answer: D. John Tyler
15. The 1848 Treaty of ______ ended the U.S.–Mexican War.
A. Versailles
B. Ghent
C. Velasco
D. Guadalupe Hidalgo
Correct Answer: D. Guadalupe Hidalgo
16. How did the Compromise of 1850 offset slaveholding Texas?
A. A new fugitive slave law was passed.
B. Slavery was completely abolished.
C. California was admitted as a free state.
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D. Abraham Lincoln was elected as president.
Correct Answer: A. A new fugitive slave law was passed.
17. Who did Texas cast its electoral votes for in the 1860 U.S. presidential election?
A. John Breckenridge
B. Stephen Douglas
C. Abraham Lincoln
D. John Bell
Correct Answer: A. John Breckenridge
18. At the 1861 Texas Secession Convention, secession was opposed by delegates from which
region?
A. the indigenous communities around the Panhandle
B. the German communities of Central Texas
C. the French communities of the Gulf coast
D. the Spanish communities around San Antonio
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Correct Answer: B. the German communities of Central Texas
19. What amendment was passed to safeguard Black Americans’ liberties and keep Confederates
from being elected?
A. Thirteenth
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B. Fourteenth
C. Fifteenth
D. Sixteenth
Correct Answer: B. Fourteenth
20. Why did former Texas Confederates despise Edmund J. Davis when he served as Texas
governor in the early 1870s?
A. They believed Davis was not moving fast enough to reconstruct the state.
B. They denied the legitimacy of his election to the governorship.
C. They complained about his “Obnoxious Acts” and his use of the state militia and state police
force.
D. They were concerned that Davis never asked for Texas to be readmitted to the Union.
Correct Answer: C. They complained about his “Obnoxious Acts” and his use of the state militia and
state police force.
21. Which post-Reconstruction system ensured Black people lived as second-class citizens by
segregating them in public spaces?
A. sharecropping
B. Jim Crow
C. Redemption
D. gerrymandering
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Hughes, Chadha, Preuss | Test Bank | Chapters 1 to 13 Test Bank Chapter 1-13
Chapter 01 Test Bank - Easy
Questions & Answers
1. Texas’s varied ______ accounts for some of its past and present diversity.
A. labor demand
B. economy
C. physiography
D. resources
Correct Answer: C. physiography
2. Which Texas environmental subregion contains the Rolling Plains, Grand Prairie, and Cross
Timbers near modern Fort Worth?
A. Interior Lowland
B. North American Great Plains
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C. Basin and Range
D. Coastal Plains
Correct Answer: A. Interior Lowland
3. Which Indigenous tribe fished and planted crops along the Gulf Coast?
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A. the Comanche
B. the Caddo
C. the Karankawa
D. the Alabama−Coushatta
Correct Answer: C. the Karankawa
4. Which federally recognized tribe of Indigenous persons has reservations in Texas today?
A. Comanche
B. Kickapoo
C. Jumano
D. Apache
Correct Answer: B. Kickapoo
5. When the Spanish ruled Texas, children born from parents from differing ethnic groups were
known as ______.
A. mestizo
B. peninsular
C. alcalde
D. criollo
Correct Answer: A. mestizo
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6. In 1685, the ______ established a short-lived settlement on Matagorda Bay.
A. Spanish
B. English
C. French
D. Dutch
Correct Answer: C. French
7. After 1803, which nation controlled territory immediately to the east of Spanish Texas?
A. France
B. the United Kingdom
C. the United States
D. Portugal
Correct Answer: C. the United States
8. In 1860, the term ______ referred to the 10% of enslavers who “owned” more than 20 enslaved
people.
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A. empresarios
B. filibusters
C. planters
D. criollos
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Correct Answer: C. planters
9. In 1820, men who launched private invasions into Mexico to seize land were referred to as
______.
A. Texians
B. filibusters
C. empresarios
D. alcaldes
Correct Answer: B. filibusters
10. In 1833, ______ became Mexican president and instituted a centralized government, reducing
the autonomy of the states.
A. Anastacio Bustamante
B. Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
C. Manuel de Mier y Terán
D. Antonio López de Santa Anna
Correct Answer: D. Antonio López de Santa Anna
11. After which battle did Antonio López de Santa Anna promise to recognize the Republic of
Texas, ending the Texas Revolution?
A. Gonzales
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B. the Alamo
C. San Jacinto
D. Goliad
Correct Answer: C. San Jacinto
12. Immigrants of which ethnicity made strides to have a peaceful relationship with the Indigenous
peoples around Fredericksburg?
A. Spanish
B. French
C. German
D. Czech
Correct Answer: C. German
13. “It is the will of God that we shall take over this land and bring the rewards of civilization to it.”
Which mid-nineteenth-century term, coined by John L. O’Sullivan and the catchphrase for westward
expansion, is accurately described by this statement?
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A. manifest destiny
B. empresario
C. Reconstruction
D. Jim Crow
Correct Answer: A. manifest destiny
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14. Texas’s annexation to the United States in 1845 was accomplished in the waning days of which
U.S. president’s administration?
A. Andrew Jackson
B. James K. Polk
C. Abraham Lincoln
D. John Tyler
Correct Answer: D. John Tyler
15. The 1848 Treaty of ______ ended the U.S.–Mexican War.
A. Versailles
B. Ghent
C. Velasco
D. Guadalupe Hidalgo
Correct Answer: D. Guadalupe Hidalgo
16. How did the Compromise of 1850 offset slaveholding Texas?
A. A new fugitive slave law was passed.
B. Slavery was completely abolished.
C. California was admitted as a free state.
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D. Abraham Lincoln was elected as president.
Correct Answer: A. A new fugitive slave law was passed.
17. Who did Texas cast its electoral votes for in the 1860 U.S. presidential election?
A. John Breckenridge
B. Stephen Douglas
C. Abraham Lincoln
D. John Bell
Correct Answer: A. John Breckenridge
18. At the 1861 Texas Secession Convention, secession was opposed by delegates from which
region?
A. the indigenous communities around the Panhandle
B. the German communities of Central Texas
C. the French communities of the Gulf coast
D. the Spanish communities around San Antonio
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Correct Answer: B. the German communities of Central Texas
19. What amendment was passed to safeguard Black Americans’ liberties and keep Confederates
from being elected?
A. Thirteenth
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B. Fourteenth
C. Fifteenth
D. Sixteenth
Correct Answer: B. Fourteenth
20. Why did former Texas Confederates despise Edmund J. Davis when he served as Texas
governor in the early 1870s?
A. They believed Davis was not moving fast enough to reconstruct the state.
B. They denied the legitimacy of his election to the governorship.
C. They complained about his “Obnoxious Acts” and his use of the state militia and state police
force.
D. They were concerned that Davis never asked for Texas to be readmitted to the Union.
Correct Answer: C. They complained about his “Obnoxious Acts” and his use of the state militia and
state police force.
21. Which post-Reconstruction system ensured Black people lived as second-class citizens by
segregating them in public spaces?
A. sharecropping
B. Jim Crow
C. Redemption
D. gerrymandering
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