Lamar University Pols-2302 Test
4 Prof Terri Davis Exam 2024
Update
Nacogdoches - ✔✔✔ANSWER-Spanish settlement in 1716, gateway for (illicit)
trade with French, legalized as permanent town in 1779, gateway from US to Texas
Frontier
part-time legislature - ✔✔✔ANSWER-state legislature that only meets in regular
session once every other year, in odd-numbered years, for a period not to exceed
140 days
political ideology - ✔✔✔ANSWER-The values and beliefs reflected in the U.S.
Constitution
Red River War - ✔✔✔ANSWER-1874-1875, final chapter in Indian sovereignty in
Texas, Comanches and Chief Parker surrendered at Fort Sill, opening of Texas
Panhandle to white settlement and ranching industry
, Runaway Scrape - ✔✔✔ANSWER-Massive retreat of all Texans under Sam
Houston in the wake of the fall of the Alamo
San Fernando de Bexar - ✔✔✔ANSWER-later became San Antonio de Bexar,
founded in 1718 (first official Spanish settlement in Texas), combination of
civilian, military, and missionary communities, most successful Spanish presidio
system in Texas
"plural" executive - ✔✔✔ANSWER-six elected officials and one appointed
official serving as the state executive power
19th Amendment - ✔✔✔ANSWER-amendment ensuring women the constitutional
right to vote, first passed in the South by Texas in 1919
Adams-Onis Treaty - ✔✔✔ANSWER-treaty in 1819 establishing the Sabine River
as the boundary between US and Spain
Adelsverein Society - ✔✔✔ANSWER-Society for Protection of German
Immigrants in Texas, created in 1840, sponsored thousands of German immigrants
to Texas
Adobe Walls - ✔✔✔ANSWER-name given to trading posts built by Anglo settlers
around 1843, site where Col Christopher Carson fought more than 1000 Kiowa and
Comanche warriors in 1864
African Movements into Texas - ✔✔✔ANSWER-Spain accepted free blacks,
Mexico abolished slavery in 1829, most Africans brought through indentured
servitude, by 1836 13,000 Africans
4 Prof Terri Davis Exam 2024
Update
Nacogdoches - ✔✔✔ANSWER-Spanish settlement in 1716, gateway for (illicit)
trade with French, legalized as permanent town in 1779, gateway from US to Texas
Frontier
part-time legislature - ✔✔✔ANSWER-state legislature that only meets in regular
session once every other year, in odd-numbered years, for a period not to exceed
140 days
political ideology - ✔✔✔ANSWER-The values and beliefs reflected in the U.S.
Constitution
Red River War - ✔✔✔ANSWER-1874-1875, final chapter in Indian sovereignty in
Texas, Comanches and Chief Parker surrendered at Fort Sill, opening of Texas
Panhandle to white settlement and ranching industry
, Runaway Scrape - ✔✔✔ANSWER-Massive retreat of all Texans under Sam
Houston in the wake of the fall of the Alamo
San Fernando de Bexar - ✔✔✔ANSWER-later became San Antonio de Bexar,
founded in 1718 (first official Spanish settlement in Texas), combination of
civilian, military, and missionary communities, most successful Spanish presidio
system in Texas
"plural" executive - ✔✔✔ANSWER-six elected officials and one appointed
official serving as the state executive power
19th Amendment - ✔✔✔ANSWER-amendment ensuring women the constitutional
right to vote, first passed in the South by Texas in 1919
Adams-Onis Treaty - ✔✔✔ANSWER-treaty in 1819 establishing the Sabine River
as the boundary between US and Spain
Adelsverein Society - ✔✔✔ANSWER-Society for Protection of German
Immigrants in Texas, created in 1840, sponsored thousands of German immigrants
to Texas
Adobe Walls - ✔✔✔ANSWER-name given to trading posts built by Anglo settlers
around 1843, site where Col Christopher Carson fought more than 1000 Kiowa and
Comanche warriors in 1864
African Movements into Texas - ✔✔✔ANSWER-Spain accepted free blacks,
Mexico abolished slavery in 1829, most Africans brought through indentured
servitude, by 1836 13,000 Africans
