Texas History

Question 0

What is President Lamar best known for?

Answer 0

Public education.

Question 1

Where was the site of the first capital of the New Republic?

Answer 1

Houston.

Question 2

What president of the Republic pushed for annexation?

Answer 2

Sam Houston.

Question 3

After Texas became a state, what was rage next step?

Answer 3

They needed to make a state constitution.

Question 4

The transfer of land in the Treaty of Guadalupe giving part of the U.S. to Mexico was known as?

Answer 4

Cession.

Question 5

Why did Mexico refuse to accept the Treaties of Velasco?

Answer 5

Santa Anna’s life was in danger when he signed it.

Question 6

What did most Texans do for a living between 1845 and 1860?

Answer 6

They were ranchers and farmers.

Question 7

Most immigrants came to Texas from?

Answer 7

Germany.

Question 8

What does secede mean?

Answer 8

To withdraw formally.

Question 9

Union supporters in Texas were located in what part of the state?

Answer 9

The North.

Question 10

During the Civil War, most of the fighting in Texas was over what?

Answer 10

Keep Texas ports open.

Question 11

What was the main issue the North and South disagreed on?

Answer 11

Slavery

Question 12

Why was the Republican Party formed?

Answer 12

To stop westward expansion of slavery.

Question 13

What did political reconstruction require the South to do?

Answer 13

Write a new state constitution that rejected succession, and did away with slavery.

Question 14

What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

Answer 14

Freed all staves in Confederate states.

Question 15

The major contribution of the Freedman’s Bureau was?

Answer 15

Creating schools for African American children.

Question 16

What two Native Texans groups posed the greatest threat to the settlers?

Answer 16

The Comanches and Kiowas.

Question 17

What is a buffalo soldier?

Answer 17

An African American soldier on the frontier.

Question 18

What forced the Comanches and Kiowas onto reservations?

Answer 18

The destruction of their homes, food, horses, and buffalo.

Question 19

What is a cow town?

Answer 19

A market or shipping point for cattle.

Question 20

What culture did the Texas cattle industry originate from?

Answer 20

Spanish

Question 21

What two inventions led to the closing of the open range?

Answer 21

Barbed wire and windmills.

Question 22

What was the main crop grown in Texas in the late 1800s?

Answer 22

Cotton.

Question 23

Define tenant farming.

Answer 23

Renting the land on which one lives and farms.

Question 24

Define cycle of poverty.

Answer 24

Not able to pay off one's debt year after year.

Question 25

Who did farmers buy cheap land from in the late 1800s?

Answer 25

The railroad companies.

Question 26

Who believed there was oil under the salt dome at Spindletop?

Answer 26

Patillo Higgins

Question 27

When was the largest reserve of oil in the world hit?

Answer 27

January 10, 1901

Question 28

What is a boom?

Answer 28

A time of great economic growth.

Question 29

Name the three major early reforms in Texas in the late 1800s to early 1900s.

Answer 29

Improving education, prohibition, and women's suffrage.

Question 30

The Galveston hurricane of 1900 was the worst natural disaster to hit?

Answer 30

The United States.

Question 31

Before the Galveston hurricane of 1900, Galveston was known as?

Answer 31

The greatest port in Texas.

Question 32

Date for the Galveston Hurricane.

Answer 32

September 8, 1900.

Question 33

The city of Galveston built what after the hurricane?

Answer 33

The 17-foot sea wall.

Question 34

After the Galveston hurricane, what type of government became popular in many towns and cities?

Answer 34

Mayor and council/commission

Question 35

Which side of the U.S. joined when it entered World War I?

Answer 35

The allies.

Question 36

Far, work in the 1920s was made faster by what two things?

Answer 36

Motors and machines.

Question 37

Give three reasons the U.S. entered World War I?

Answer 37

The U.S. Mexican Conflict, the Zimmerman Telegram, and the sinking of the Lusitania.

Question 38

Name three people associated with the U.S. Mexican Conflict.

Answer 38

Poncho Villa, President Wilson, and John Pershing.

Question 39

What was the nam given to states devastated by drought?

Answer 39

The Dust Bowl.

Question 40

Define the Great Depression.

Answer 40

Economic slowdown, loss of jobs, stick market crash.

Question 41

What president introduced the New Deal?

Answer 41

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question 42

Who did the New Deal help?

Answer 42

Got more jobs, youth, and farmers.

Question 43

Who was Audie Murphy?

Answer 43

The most decorated soldier in World War II.

Question 44

Name three World War I heroes from Texas.

Answer 44

Oveta Culp Hobby, Dorie Miller, and General Dwight d. Eisenhower.

Question 45

What event led to the U.S. entering World War II?

Answer 45

The bombing of Pearl Harbor.

Question 46

What is meant by "separation of powers"?

Answer 46

Checks and balances so one branch doesn't have more than other branches.

Question 47

Give three things the Texas Constitution describes?

Answer 47

What a government must do, can do, and cannot do.

Question 48

Define Texas Bill of Rights.

Answer 48

The freedoms and rights of texans in the Texas constitution.