POLS 2312 UTA -EXAM 1 WITH COMPLETE SOLUTION

first occupiers of Texas - ANSWER Native Americans for up to 10,000 years the first tribes to settle in Texas - ANSWER Caddo and Apache why was Texas popular for settlement - ANSWER plentiful hunting and farming land Caddos occupied land from - ANSWER Trinity River to Mississippi River and north to Red River Apache occupied - ANSWER south and west to the area now known as Big Bend the other two tribes - ANSWER Karankawa and Coahuiltecan these two tribes settled the - ANSWER coastal regions first explorers - ANSWER -Spanish: Alvar Nunez de Vaca -rescued near Galveston Island -Spain established missions, military bases and settlements throughout Texas and Mexico calling it New Spain Texans of Mexican heritage are called - ANSWER Tejanos most tejanos stayed out of the war between Texas and Mexico and preferred self governance called - ANSWER ayuntamiento tejanos who did not fight for Mexico were - ANSWER rewarded with land but their ancestral land was taken from them mexican govt promoted the ___ settlement in Texas - ANSWER Anglo who were these people - ANSWER american settlerswhy did mexicans support anglo settlement? - ANSWER raise revenue through taxes people who were granted the right to settle the land and recruit other settlers to come to Texas were called - ANSWER empersarios these settlements led to - ANSWER conflicts between Tejanos and Anglos if Texas were an independent nation today, our economy would rank - ANSWER 10th in the world our gross state product i