POLS 2312 GOVT UPDATED EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
●● 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 settlers
●● why 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 in 2017 was
Answer: $1.7 trillion, 2nd highest in US
●● texas is home to ___ of the top 50 companies on fortune 500 list
Answer: 6
●● sources of texas economic strength
Answer: 1. food and fiber(corn, cotton, timber)
2. fuel
3. cattle
, 4. manufacturing
●● what is the texas miracle
Answer: economic good fortune from 2001 to 2008. texas did not suffer
from 2008 recession unlike other states due to the price of fuel
●● half of the country's fastest growing cities
Answer: Texas suburbs
●● in 2016, Texas ranked ___ in energy consumption
Answer: 6th
●● fastest growing demographic in Texas
Answer: Asians
●● political culture
Answer: set of shared values and practices held by people that informs
their expectations of government and society
●● do texans support death penalty
Answer: 75% do
●● Consitution
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
●● 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 settlers
●● why 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 in 2017 was
Answer: $1.7 trillion, 2nd highest in US
●● texas is home to ___ of the top 50 companies on fortune 500 list
Answer: 6
●● sources of texas economic strength
Answer: 1. food and fiber(corn, cotton, timber)
2. fuel
3. cattle
, 4. manufacturing
●● what is the texas miracle
Answer: economic good fortune from 2001 to 2008. texas did not suffer
from 2008 recession unlike other states due to the price of fuel
●● half of the country's fastest growing cities
Answer: Texas suburbs
●● in 2016, Texas ranked ___ in energy consumption
Answer: 6th
●● fastest growing demographic in Texas
Answer: Asians
●● political culture
Answer: set of shared values and practices held by people that informs
their expectations of government and society
●● do texans support death penalty
Answer: 75% do
●● Consitution
