7th Pre AP Tx History fall study

7th Pre AP Tx History fall study

Open Ended

Why were empresarios contracted?

Open Ended

What's the environment like in East Texas?

Multiple Choice

What was the purpose of the State Colonization Law of 1825?

• Mexican independence from Spain

• Promote the settlement of Texas

• Merge Texas and Coahuila as one state

• Convert the Native Americans to Catholicism

Multiple Choice

What physical feature is common in both the Great Plains and the Coastal Plains regions of Texas?

• Lack of significant water resources

• Cold winters and humid hot summers

• Flat land suitable for farming or ranching

• Major cities with large metropolitan areas

Multiple Choice

Which country was France's enemy during La Salle's time?

• Spain
• Germany
• United States
• Great Britain

Multiple Choice

Which of these explorers landed at Matagorda Bay while searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River?

• Rene-Robert Cavelier Sieur de La Salle
• Hernando Cortés
• Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
• Francisco Vásquez de Coronado
  

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best describes the defining characteristics of the Age of Contact era in Texas history?

• Anglo and Spanish settlers established colonies in Texas.
• American Indian tribes were driven out of Texas by French settlers.
• Spanish explorers and French explorers both claimed land in Texas.
• Spanish colonists abandoned exploration of Texas after not finding any gold.

Multiple Choice

What contribution did Alvarez de Pineda make for Spanish exploration?

• mapped the Texas coast
• defeated the Aztec
• settled Mexico City
• explored New Mexico

Multiple Choice

What did René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle do in the New World?

• He founded Hispaniola and started what we know as the Columbian Exchange.

• He searched for the 7 Cities of Gold and found 2.

• He explored the Grand Canyon and the Southwest of the United States.

• He explored the Mississippi River and established a colony in Texas.

Multiple Choice

In order to be a member of Stephen F. Austin's Old 300, colonists had to be ___.

• rich

• smart

• strong

• hard-working

Multiple Choice

I am the Father of Texas.

• General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna

• Stephen F. Austin

• Moses Austin

• Lorenzo de Zavala

Poll

Who brought missions and presidios?

• French

• Germans

• Mexicans

• Spanish

Multiple Choice

Who was the Mexican Politician who did NOT agree with Santa Anna and thought of him as a dictator?

• George Childress

• Sam Houston

• Lorenzo de Zavala

Multiple Choice

Who was the Mexican Politician who signed the Texas Declaration of Independence?

• Lorenzo de Zavala

• Sam Houston

• George Childress

Multiple Choice

What was the purpose of the Turtle Bay Resolutions?

• to bring about the abolition of slavery in Mexico

• the bring about revolution in Mexico against Spain

• to protest Mexican actions in Texas

• to acquire land West of Texas

Open Ended

In what battle was Santa Anna captured?

Open Ended

What is the manifest destiny?

Poll

Did president James K Polk believe in the Manifest Destiny?

• yes

• no

Open Ended

Nueces River and Rio Grande were the main cause of what problem?

Open Ended

Memorize this again

Multiple Choice

How could you describe the location of the Balcones Escarpment in relation to the Edwards Plateau and the city of San Antonio?

• They are the same place.

• The Balcones Escarpment is further West than both.

• The Balcones Escarpment is south east of the Edwards Plateau and north west of San Antonio.

• The Balcones Escarpment is further south than both.

Multiple Choice

Can you farm in West Texas?

• Yes

• No

Open Ended

The open plains of West Texas were used for what?

Multiple Choice

Louis comes from?

• French

• Spanish

• Mexican

• Anglo

Open Ended

Who gives power under constitutions?

Multiple Choice

Elements of culture shared by a culture; ex: holidays, language, special foods, & religion

• culture trait
• culture region
• multicultural
• globalization

Multiple Choice

Pretezels and Bratwurts were brought to Texas from the

• frenc

• spanish

• germans

• mexicans

Open Ended

Why did Texans not like Santa Annas Mexican Constitution?

Open Ended

Tell me the difference between nomadic and sedentary

Multiple Choice

Comanches: How did they live?

• Their power was based on bison, horses, trading, and raiding.

• In total, almost 10,000 people lived in the five villages north of Big Bend.

• They were politically organized into three confederacies, or

  loose associations that worked together.

• groups of families

Multiple Choice

Comanches: What was their food?

• hunted buffalo on the plains.

• they subsisted on worms, lizards, ants, and undigested seeds collected from deer dung

• fished, hunted sea turtles, and collected shellfish.

  They also gathered eggs and hunted deer and small

  animals.

• they grew corn and other crops by planting

  near the river.

Open Ended

Where do you think Jose Bernardo Gutierrez is from? If fighting for his country what side would he be on?

Multiple Choice

Stephen F Austin and Martin De Leon were both?

• ranchers

• farmers

• politicians

• empresarios

Open Ended

If you moved to Texas how did you make money?

Open Ended

What did the snitch report known as Mier and Teran cause?

Multiple Choice

Who led the Texas Revolution?

• Sam Houston

• William B Travis

• George Childress

• Stephen F Austin

Open Ended

Why did Travis write his letter from the Alamo?

Multiple Choice

Texas huge debt meant Texans wanted annexation and it also meant the U.S. did not want annexation

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

The 300 foot rock formation that is the hallmark of Palo Duro Canyon

• Big Tex

• Enchanted Rock

• Cascade Caverns

• The Lighthouse

Multiple Choice

Which of the following Ended the war and forced Mexico to turn over much of its north territory to the United States?

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
• Gadsden Purchase
• New Mexico and Arizona Purchase
• Guadalupe Purchase

Multiple Choice

The United States thought the border between the United States and Mexico was between the _________

• Nueces River
• Rio Grande River
• Red River
• Trinity River

Open Ended

Settler s built homes with an open hallway that ran from the front to the back of the house because Texas climate is?

Multiple Choice

The cost of land in Texas was

• cheap

• expensive

Open Ended

The Texas Constitution copied whose constitution?

Open Ended

If all the names are in espanol then who colonized it?

Open Ended

What does come and take it mean?

Multiple Choice

Texas wanted annexation because they needed the U.S.'s protection from Mexico and

• Natives

• French

• Germans

• Haters

Open Ended

What is a compromise? Does that mean after you reached a compromise you still end up fighting?