UIL Social Studies Tryout

Why is June 19 considered a holiday in Texas?

• The United States was attacked by Japan

• Texas was freed from Mexico

• Day that all enslaved Texans learned they were free

• Celebration for a Hispanic girl on her fifteenth birthday

What bird imitates the calls of other birds with songs and is the state bird of Texas?

• Sparrow

• Blue jay

• Cardinal

• Mockingbird

Which monument is a reminder of the Texas victory in the last battle of the Texas Revolution?

• Statue of Liberty

• San Jacinto Monument

• Come and Take It Cannon

• Eiffel Tower

African Americans had to find jobs and housing

Farmers had to learn to grow crops without to

Anger over new found African American rights

These were characteristics of a time of rebuilding called_____.

• Reconstruction

• Enlightenment

• Prohibition

• Progressivism

What action in Texas following the ending of the Civil War best completes this

diagram?

• General Granger announces that enslaved Texans are free

• Trade treaties are adopted with Mexico

• Ulysses S. Grant opens a business in Laredo

• Economy collapses with widespread unemployment

Why were so many of the battles waged in Texas

during the Civil War fought along the Gulf Coast?

• There were no major settlements inland

• Most of Texas’ industries were along the coast

• To keep Confederate ships from carrying goods

  into and out of the ports

• Seat of government was in the area

Which agreement opened free trade among the United States, Mexico and Canada?

• Declaration of First Nations

• European Union

• Lighthouse of Commerce

• North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement

_______ is the development of a world culture and interdependent world economy.

• Feudalism

• Globalization

• Imperialism

• Dictatorship

Canada

Province:

Newfoundland

?

Alberta

What province completes the chart about Canada?

• British Columbia

• Nunavut

• Quebec

• Nova Scotia

Luxembourg

Centrally located

?

Which reason finishes the diagram for why Luxembourg is so attractive to foreign

businesses?

• Large land area

• Most people are multilingual

• Extreme climate

• Lack of infrastructure