Social Studies Final Review

Question 1

What was Sam Houston’s role during the secession crisis

Answer 1

Governor Houston was anti-secession. He tried to stop it

Question 2

What political party was formed to prevent the spread of slavery?

Answer 2

Republican Party

Question 3

What region of the United States seceded from the Union?

Answer 3

The Southern Slave States

Question 4

Name the four important battles fought in Texas during the Civil War.

Answer 4

Battle of Sabine Pass

Battle of Brownsville

Battle of Galveston

Battle of Palmito Ranch

Question 5

Describe the Battle of Palmito Ranch

Answer 5

Fought after civil war was over

last battle of the war

Question 6

What was the Emancipation Proclamation?

Answer 6

The executive order declared that the enslaved people in the confederate states were free

Question 7

What was the Freedmen’s Bureau?

Answer 7

Orginization that helped freedmen

find jobs
gave supplies
education
issued food and clothing

Question 8

How did reconstruction change the power of the Texas governor

Answer 8

it decreased the power of the governor

Question 9

Why was the Ku Klux Klan formed

Answer 9

limit rights of African Americans

Question 10

13th amendment

Answer 10

abolished slavery in the U.S.

Question 11

14th amendment

Answer 11

protected rights/citizenship of formerly enslaved people

Question 12

15th amendment

Answer 12

African American freedmen got the right to vote

Question 13

Who were buffalo soldiers

Answer 13

African American soldiers located in the frontier wars

Question 14

Why were Texas settlers vulnerable to Native Americans during the Civil War?

Answer 14

Federal troops were pulled out of Texas to fight in the East

Question 15

Who was Quanah Parker?

Answer 15

most influential last Comanche chief.

Question 16

What impact did barbed wire have on the Texas frontier?

Answer 16

closed open range by blocking cattle trails

Question 17

Why did owners brand their cattle?

Answer 17

so no one could steal them (showed ownership)

Question 18

What was the significance of the Chisholm Trail?

Answer 18

1st great cattle drive

Question 19

What geographic features of Texas helped the cattle industry become so successful?

Answer 19

open flat land with grass

warm climate

Question 20

How were minorities in Texas kept from exercising their right to vote besides literacy tests?

Answer 20

poll taxes + volience/discrimination

Question 21

How was the development of railroads beneficial to Texans? How were they powered?

Answer 21

it allowed for transportation for goods and people

they were steam powered

Question 22

In post Civil War Texas, how did high demand for cotton affect the farming industry?

Answer 22

the overproduction of cotton made the prices drop

farmers were in debt and faced depression

Question 23

Who was James Hogg? What did he do?

Answer 23

Attorney General and governor of Texas that was the Leader of the Progressive movement and passes the Anti-trust act and the Railroad commission

Question 24

Grange def.

Answer 24

social group dedicated to economic reform through cooperative stores

working together to fight

Question 25

Farmers’ Alliance

Answer 25

farmers bound together to fight against unfair practices of railroad monopolies

lobby congress (fighting through government)

Question 26

Populist Party

Answer 26

Wanted farmers in TX to become political

(making changes themselves)

Question 27

What significant event happened in 1901?

Answer 27

Spindletop is discovered.

Largest oil finding of the period

Question 28

How did the oil boom help the lumber industry?

Answer 28

oil derricks were made from lumber and wood

Question 29

25. What did Galveston do to protect themselves after the Galveston Hurricane of 1900?

Answer 29

created a seawall

raised level of city by pumping sand and dirt under it

Question 30

What was the 19th amendment?

Answer 30

Woman have the right to vote

Question 31

what is the right to vote also known as

Answer 31

suffrage

Question 32

During the 1920s, what happened to the price of cotton as production increased?

Answer 32

the cost dropped

Question 33

What document caused the United States to join World War I? What did the document say?

Answer 33

The Zimmerman Telegram

a secret message from Germany to Mexico urging Mexico to attack the U.S. In return Germany would help Mexico reconquer lost territory

Question 34

What new technology now used widespread during WWI?

Answer 34

airplanes

Question 35

How did the urbanization of Texas in the 1920s affect people’s way of life?

Answer 35

more people lived in cities than rural areas

Question 36

How did the Dust Bowl impact Texas?

Answer 36

many farmers abandoned their land or lost it to drought

1/3 of panhandle population left

Question 37

Who was Oveta Culp Hobby?

Answer 37

she was the founder and commandeer of the Women’s Army Corp

Question 38

Who was Audie Murphy

Answer 38

most highly decorated American during WWII

1945, single handedly held of attack of 200 German soldiers in 30 minutes to his rest of his soldiers could escape

Question 39

Describe POW camps and Japanese internment camps in the United States

Answer 39

limited peoples’ freedoms

constantly under guard

Question 40

How were German Texans discriminated against during World War I and II?

Answer 40

pressured into joining the army

forced to kiss the American Flag

sent to camps

Question 41

What was the Holocaust?

Answer 41

innocent jews had been killed by the German government in camps during WWII

Question 42

study government flashcards

Answer 42

yes

Question 43

1836

Answer 43

Texas becomes an independent republic (independence from Mexico)

Question 44

1845

Answer 44

Texas is annexed by the U.S.

Question 45

1861

Answer 45

Civil War begins and TX secedes to join confederacy

Question 46

1876

Answer 46

Texas adopts its current constitution

Question 47

1901

Answer 47

Spindletop is discovered, beginning major oil boom