TEXES 7-12 SOCIAL STUDIES UPDATED TESTED QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Roosevelt Corollary - ✔✔An addition to the Monroe Doctrine articulated by President
Theodore Roosevelt in his State of the Union address in 1904 after the Venezuela
Crisis of 1902-03. It asserted the right of the United States to intervene to "stabilize" the
economic affairs of small states in Central America and the Caribbean if they were
unable to pay their international debts.
✔✔Expansion Abroad - ✔✔US foreign policy like the Monroe Doctrine and the
Roosevelt Corollary in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was vastly focused on this
through military, cultural, and economic power.
(competency 011)
✔✔Jim Crow - ✔✔State and local laws established after Reconstruction ended in 1877
that mandated racial segregation in public facilities in Southern states.
(competency 012)
✔✔Booker T. Washington - ✔✔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" - ✔✔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 - ✔✔In 1727, he was selected to colonize land in Texas.
Although he met with American Indian resistance throughout his expeditions, he found
success in establishing over twenty settlements along the Rio Grande.
(competency 016)
✔✔Francisco Hidalgo - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 the treaty ended
uncertainty between the United States and Spain over the boundary created after the
Louisiana Purchase.
(competency 016)
✔✔Oveta Culp Hobby - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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)
✔✔Houston - ✔✔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 - ✔✔Involves the study of the methodology and changing
interpretations of history as a discipline.
AND ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Roosevelt Corollary - ✔✔An addition to the Monroe Doctrine articulated by President
Theodore Roosevelt in his State of the Union address in 1904 after the Venezuela
Crisis of 1902-03. It asserted the right of the United States to intervene to "stabilize" the
economic affairs of small states in Central America and the Caribbean if they were
unable to pay their international debts.
✔✔Expansion Abroad - ✔✔US foreign policy like the Monroe Doctrine and the
Roosevelt Corollary in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was vastly focused on this
through military, cultural, and economic power.
(competency 011)
✔✔Jim Crow - ✔✔State and local laws established after Reconstruction ended in 1877
that mandated racial segregation in public facilities in Southern states.
(competency 012)
✔✔Booker T. Washington - ✔✔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" - ✔✔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 - ✔✔In 1727, he was selected to colonize land in Texas.
Although he met with American Indian resistance throughout his expeditions, he found
success in establishing over twenty settlements along the Rio Grande.
(competency 016)
✔✔Francisco Hidalgo - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 the treaty ended
uncertainty between the United States and Spain over the boundary created after the
Louisiana Purchase.
(competency 016)
✔✔Oveta Culp Hobby - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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)
✔✔Houston - ✔✔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 - ✔✔Involves the study of the methodology and changing
interpretations of history as a discipline.
