Texas Government Review 1

The first modern European nation to lay claim to the territory of Texas was

• A) France

• B) Spain

• C) England

• D) Portugal

Of the six flags flown over Texas, which represented republics?

• A) Texas and Mexico

• B) the CSA and France

• C) Spain and France

• D) France and Mexico

Who won the battle that led to the independence of Texas from Mexico?

• A) Steve Austin

• B) James Fannin

• C) Sam Houston

• D) General Santa Anna

Which flag was the fifth to fly over Texas?

• A) Spanish flag

• B) United States flag

• C) Confederate flag

• D) Mexican flag

Texas’ first petition for statehood was denied because

• A) the vast majority of Anglo settlers did not consider themselves American.

• B) the U.S. felt that Mexico still had a valid claim to the land.

• C) the Spanish and Mexican settlers who remained in Texas threatened revolt.

• D) there was not a free state to balance the admittance of Texas as a slave state.

Why did the U.S. commit 50,000 troops to Texas at the end of the Civil War in 1865?

• A) to prevent Texas from seceding

• B) to secure the border after Mexican encroachment

• C) to enforce the provisions of Reconstruction

• D) to discourage French meddling

One of the primary political goals for Reconstruction was

• A) to allow Northern states to be readmitted to the Union.

• B) to undermine the economy in the southern states.

• C) to restore law and order to a society recovering from war.

• D) to reintroduce slavery, in a limited way, in several southern states.

The discovery of oil transformed Texas by

• A) accelerating the growth of Texas’s population.

• B) sparking the transition to an agricultural economy.

• C) increasing the number of Texans who lived in rural areas.

• D) reinforcing and even narrowing Texans’ ideas about government.

What was the primary use of land in Texas from the 1820s to the 1860s?

• A) cattle

• B) cotton

• C) oil

• D) Land use in the period was about equally divided among these three.

Between 1900 and 1950, what was the primary factor that accelerated the demographic shift from a rural society to an urban society in Texas?

• A) oil

• B) the Civil Rights movement

• C) WWI and WWII

• D) the automobile