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TEXES HISTORY 7-12 (233) 2025
CERTIFIED Q&A
Booker T. Washington - correct-answer-Believed that the social and political
discrimination against African Americans in his time was wrong, he felt that
African Americans should take a gradualist approach to combating it. In the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, he argued that African Americans
should pursue economic advancement as a first step prior to agitating for political
and social equality.
(competency 014)
"urban" - correct-answer-Due to industrialization of the US economy the United
States Census Bureau recorded in the 1920 census the first time in which over 50
percent of the United States population was defined as ____________ (living in
towns or cities with at least 2,500 people).
(competency 013)
Jose de Escandon - correct-answer-In 1727, he was selected to colonize land in
Texas. Although he met with American Indian resistance throughout his
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expeditions, he found success in establishing over twenty settlements along the
Rio Grande.
(competency 016)
Francisco Hidalgo - correct-answer-Was a Franciscan missionary who came to the
Americas to found the missionary College of Santa Cruz de Querétaro. He later
traveled to an East Texas mission and, when the mission failed, he became an
advocate for missionary efforts among the Caddo Indians.
(competency 017)
Land Grants - correct-answer-These were given to families, like Stephen F. Austin,
from the United States for two reasons. One was to protect northern Mexico from
Native American attacks, particularly from the Comanche, and a second was to
buffer northern Mexican states against the effects of westward expansion of the
United States.
(competency 017)
The Adams-Onis Treaty - correct-answer-Recognized the United States seizure of
Florida from Spain and delineated a boundary with Spanish Mexico that clearly
made Texas a part of Spanish Mexico (and not of the United States). This aspect of
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the treaty ended uncertainty between the United States and Spain over the
boundary created after the Louisiana Purchase.
(competency 016)
Oveta Culp Hobby - correct-answer-After serving as head of the War
Department's Women's Interest Section, she became the Director of the Women's
Army Corps. The first to serve in the Army in uniform, the women under her
leadership were organized to fill the roles of men who had been sent into combat
during the World War II. As Director, she was the first woman to receive the
Distinguished Service Medal and was promoted to the rank of colonel for her
efforts.
(competency 018)
Barbed Wire - correct-answer-Invented in the 1860s and introduced in the West in
the 1870s, this transformed the landscape. It was used by farmers, railroad
companies and others to protect land from cattle and, increasingly, by ranchers
themselves. Eventually, as the use of this expanded, it became increasingly
difficult for cattle to move freely across the plains. Ultimately it contributed to the
end of the open range and cattle drives in Texas.
(competency 017)
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Houston - correct-answer-This city became a center for refineries and
petrochemical plants during the oil boom of the early twentieth century in Texas.
It also benefited from the opening of a ship channel in 1914 that made the city
attractive for industrial development. The town's population grew by over 500
percent between 1900 and 1930.
(competency 018)
Historiography - correct-answer-Involves the study of the methodology and
changing interpretations of history as a discipline.
Studying a variety of interpretive sources would provide students with examples
of the differing ways that historians study and write about certain topics.
(competency 022)
Diffusion - correct-answer-A term that is often used by historians to refer to the
process by which cultural traits, such as technology, are spread between two or
more cultures across space.
(competency 020)
TEXES HISTORY 7-12 (233) 2025
CERTIFIED Q&A
Booker T. Washington - correct-answer-Believed that the social and political
discrimination against African Americans in his time was wrong, he felt that
African Americans should take a gradualist approach to combating it. In the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, he argued that African Americans
should pursue economic advancement as a first step prior to agitating for political
and social equality.
(competency 014)
"urban" - correct-answer-Due to industrialization of the US economy the United
States Census Bureau recorded in the 1920 census the first time in which over 50
percent of the United States population was defined as ____________ (living in
towns or cities with at least 2,500 people).
(competency 013)
Jose de Escandon - correct-answer-In 1727, he was selected to colonize land in
Texas. Although he met with American Indian resistance throughout his
,2|Page
expeditions, he found success in establishing over twenty settlements along the
Rio Grande.
(competency 016)
Francisco Hidalgo - correct-answer-Was a Franciscan missionary who came to the
Americas to found the missionary College of Santa Cruz de Querétaro. He later
traveled to an East Texas mission and, when the mission failed, he became an
advocate for missionary efforts among the Caddo Indians.
(competency 017)
Land Grants - correct-answer-These were given to families, like Stephen F. Austin,
from the United States for two reasons. One was to protect northern Mexico from
Native American attacks, particularly from the Comanche, and a second was to
buffer northern Mexican states against the effects of westward expansion of the
United States.
(competency 017)
The Adams-Onis Treaty - correct-answer-Recognized the United States seizure of
Florida from Spain and delineated a boundary with Spanish Mexico that clearly
made Texas a part of Spanish Mexico (and not of the United States). This aspect of
,3|Page
the treaty ended uncertainty between the United States and Spain over the
boundary created after the Louisiana Purchase.
(competency 016)
Oveta Culp Hobby - correct-answer-After serving as head of the War
Department's Women's Interest Section, she became the Director of the Women's
Army Corps. The first to serve in the Army in uniform, the women under her
leadership were organized to fill the roles of men who had been sent into combat
during the World War II. As Director, she was the first woman to receive the
Distinguished Service Medal and was promoted to the rank of colonel for her
efforts.
(competency 018)
Barbed Wire - correct-answer-Invented in the 1860s and introduced in the West in
the 1870s, this transformed the landscape. It was used by farmers, railroad
companies and others to protect land from cattle and, increasingly, by ranchers
themselves. Eventually, as the use of this expanded, it became increasingly
difficult for cattle to move freely across the plains. Ultimately it contributed to the
end of the open range and cattle drives in Texas.
(competency 017)
, 4|Page
Houston - correct-answer-This city became a center for refineries and
petrochemical plants during the oil boom of the early twentieth century in Texas.
It also benefited from the opening of a ship channel in 1914 that made the city
attractive for industrial development. The town's population grew by over 500
percent between 1900 and 1930.
(competency 018)
Historiography - correct-answer-Involves the study of the methodology and
changing interpretations of history as a discipline.
Studying a variety of interpretive sources would provide students with examples
of the differing ways that historians study and write about certain topics.
(competency 022)
Diffusion - correct-answer-A term that is often used by historians to refer to the
process by which cultural traits, such as technology, are spread between two or
more cultures across space.
(competency 020)
