POLS 2312 UTA -EXAM 1 questions with answers

POLS 2312 UTA -EXAM 1 questions with
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first occupiers of Texas - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Native
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Americans for up to 10,000 years |\ |\ |\ |\ |\




the first tribes to settle in Texas - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔Caddo and Apache |\ |\




why was Texas popular for settlement - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔plentiful hunting and farming land |\ |\ |\ |\ |\




Caddos occupied land from - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔Trinity River to Mississippi River and north to Red River
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Apache occupied - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔south and west
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to the area now known as Big Bend
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the other two tribes - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Karankawa
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and Coahuiltecan
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these two tribes settled the - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔coastal regions |\

,first explorers - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔-Spanish: Alvar
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Nunez de Vaca |\ |\




-rescued near Galveston Island |\ |\ |\ |\




-Spain established missions, military bases and
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settlements throughout Texas and Mexico calling it New |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


Spain


Texans of Mexican heritage are called - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔Tejanos |\




most tejanos stayed out of the war between Texas and
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Mexico and preferred self governance called - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔ayuntamiento |\




tejanos who did not fight for Mexico were - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔rewarded with land but their ancestral land
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was taken from them
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mexican govt promoted the ___ settlement in Texas -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Anglo |\ |\




who were these people - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔american
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settlers


why did mexicans support anglo settlement? - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔raise revenue through taxes |\ |\ |\ |\

, people who were granted the right to settle the land and
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recruit other settlers to come to Texas were called -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔empersarios |\ |\




these settlements led to - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔conflicts
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between Tejanos and Anglos
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if Texas were an independent nation today, our economy
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would rank - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔10th in the world
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our gross state product in 2017 was - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔$1.7 trillion, 2nd highest in US |\ |\ |\ |\ |\




texas is home to ___ of the top 50 companies on fortune
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500 list - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔6
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sources of texas economic strength - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔1. food and fiber(corn, cotton, timber)
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2. fuel |\




3. cattle |\ |\




4. manufacturing
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what is the texas miracle - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔economic good fortune from 2001 to 2008. texas did |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


not suffer from 2008 recession unlike other states due to
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the price of fuel
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