Texas History

Open Ended

Open Ended

Pick one of the following and answer with your partner. Be ready to share.

1. Why are borderlands often culturally mixed?

2. How can land policy encourage imigration and conflict?

3. Why can one event become a political symbol?

Draw

Draw your version of a Tejano using the following definition:

A Texan of Mexican Heritage.

Multiple Choice

Which evidence best explains why Texas developed as a contested borderland?

• Physical geography prevented interaction.

• One authority maintained uncontested control.

• Indigenous homelands, colonial claims, Mexican authority, and Anglo settlement overlapped.

• The region remained unoccupied until statehood.

Multiple Choice

What was the primary purpose of Spanish missions in Texas?

• Develop industrial manufacturing centers.

• Extend Spanish religious and political influence by converting and settling communities.

• Connect settlements through a railroad network.

• Transfer control of Texas to Anglo settlers.

Multiple Choice

Why did Mexico use land grants in Texas?

• Reduce the population near the border.

• Populate and develop its northern province while strengthening Mexican control.

• Prevent agriculture and trade.

• Replace civilian settlements with military forts.

Multiple Choice

Which action best illustrates the role of an empresario?

• Enforcing laws as a judge.

• Commanding a foreign navy.

• Manufacturing farm equipment.

• Recruiting families and organizing settlement within a colony.

Multiple Choice

Which development most directly increased political tension in Mexican Texas?

• Settlement declined across the region.

• All groups agreed about laws and government.

• Rapid Anglo migration shifted the population balance and demands for power.

• Land stopped influencing settlement.

Multiple Choice

Which explanation best accounts for the Texas Revolution?

• One slogan caused the entire conflict.

• Geography alone determined the outcome.

• Evidence is unnecessary when causes are known.

• Disputes over law, autonomy, slavery, and political control interacted over time.

Multiple Choice

Why did the Alamo influence later events in the Texas Revolution?

• It ended the conflict immediately.

• It established the Spanish mission system.

• Its defeat become a rallying symbol that mobilized resistance.

• It prevented Texas from seeking annexation.

Multiple Choice

Which event changed Texas from an independent republic into a U.S. state?

• The Alamo created statehood in 1836.

• The United States annexed Texas in 1845.

• Mexican independence admitted Texas to the Union.

• The 1848 treaty formed the Republic of Texas.

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