Exam 1

Question 1

The earliest inhabitants of the Americas, including Texas, who were
present at the end of the last Ice Age.

Answer 1

Paleo-Indians

Question 2

Groups that succeeded the Paleo-Indians in Texas, from about 6,000 to
1,000 years ago, with a hunting and gathering lifestyle.

Answer 2

Archaic People

Question 3

A confederation of several Southeastern Native American tribes who inhabited the area of Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma.

Answer 3

Caddos

Question 4

A Spanish explorer who was shipwrecked in Texas in 1528
and one of the first Europeans to explore the interior of Texas.

Answer 4

Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

Question 5

A Spanish conquistador who led an expedition in the 1540s across what is now the southwestern United States in search of the Seven Cities of
Gold.

Answer 5

Francisco Vásquez de Coronado

Question 6

An uprising of most of the ______ Indians against the Spanish colonizers in the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México, present-day New Mexico, in 1680.

Answer 6

Pueblo Revolt

Question 7

a French explorer credited with claiming Louisiana and the Mississippi River Basin for France.

Answer 7

La Salle

Question 8

The first mission in the province of Texas, founded in 1690.

Answer 8

Mission San Francisco de los Tejas

Question 9

Native American people of southern Texas and northeastern Mexico.

Answer 9

Coahuiltecans

Question 10

Reforms instituted by the Spanish crown to better govern and defend its territories, including the presidios (military forts) in Texas.

Answer 10

New Regulations for Presidios (1772)

Question 11

The acquisition of the _________ territory by the United States from
France in 1803, which doubled the size of the U.S.

Answer 11

Louisiana Purchase

Question 12

Also known as the Transcontinental Treaty of 1819, it settled a border
dispute between the U.S. and Spain, defining the boundaries of the Louisiana Purchase
and ceding Florida to the U.S.

Answer 12

Adams-Onís Treaty

Question 13

An American filibuster who led an unsuccessful expedition into Texas in 1819 to liberate it from Spanish rule.

Answer 13

James Long

Question 14

Father and son who led American colonization of Texas with settlers from the United States.

Answer 14

Moses and Stephen F. Austin

Question 15

Mexican legislation that allowed for the colonization of its northern territories, including Texas, by American settlers.

Answer 15

Colonization Act of 1825

Question 16

A short-lived rebellion in 1826 by empresarios Haden Edwards and
his brother in Nacogdoches, which declared independence from Mexican Texas.

Answer 16

Fredonian Rebellion

Question 17

The 1835-1836 conflict between the colonists of Texas and the government of Mexico that resulted in the creation of the Republic of Texas.

Answer 17

Texas Revolution

Question 18

important figures in early Texas history who served as presidents of the Republic of Texas.

Answer 18

Presidents Houston and Lamar

Question 19

An unsuccessful 1841 commercial and military expedition by the
Republic of Texas intended to establish control over the _____ __ Trail.

Answer 19

Santa Fe Expedition

Question 20

The formal joining of Texas to the United States in 1845.

Answer 20

Annexation

Question 21

A Native American tribe that played a dominant role in the Texas region
as skilled horsemen and fierce warriors.

Answer 21

The Comanches

Question 22

Shot an officer for abusing ranch hand. Retreated to Mexico and returned to liberate a southern region of Texas.

Answer 22

Juan N. Cortina

Question 23

A conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848, following the U.S. annexation of Texas.

Answer 23

The U.S.-Mexican War

Question 24

The 1848 treaty that ended the U.S.-Mexican War and resulted in Mexico ceding a large part of its territory to the U.S., including California and
New Mexico.

Answer 24

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Question 25

A small town that was part of a land purchase by the United States from Mexico in 1853, known as the Gadsden Purchase.

Answer 25

Mesilla

Question 26

An unsuccessful 1846 proposal in the U.S. Congress to ban slavery in
territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War.

Answer 26

Wilmot Proviso

Question 27

A package of five bills passed by the U.S. Congress which defused a
political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired during the Mexican–American War.

Answer 27

Compromise of 1850

Question 28

Legislation passed in 1854 that created the territories of ______ and
________, opened new lands for settlement, and allowed the settlers to decide whether to allow slavery.

Answer 28

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 29

Also known as the American Party, it was a prominent United States
political party during the 1850s that was anti-Catholic, anti-immigration, and xenophobic.
It emerged as a reaction to the influx of immigrants, particularly Catholics from Ireland and Germany.

Answer 29

Know Nothing Party

Question 30

in 1860, leading up to the American Civil War, characterized by fear, suspicion, and violence in Texas. A series of events

Answer 30

Texas Troubles

Question 31

It involved allegations of slave
rebellions and resulted in vigilante justice against slaves and suspected abolitionists.

Answer 31

Texas Troubles

Question 32

A battle during the American Civil War that took place in 1862 in the northern New Mexico Territory.

Answer 32

Battle of Glorieta Pass

Question 33

It was a pivotal fight in the New Mexico Campaign and is sometimes referred to as the “Gettysburg of the West” for its strategic impact, essentially halting Confederate attempts to occupy the territory of New Mexico.

Answer 33

Battle of Glorieta Pass