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WorksheetsCDB #2 Review - CORTEZ
Total questions: 70
Worksheet time: 40mins
What treaty ended the Texas Revolutionary war (the TX war with Mexico)?
Treaty of Velasco
Treaty of Paris
Turtle Bayou Resolutions
Texas Declaration of Independence
Fill in the blank: Texas claims that the _______________________ was the boundary between Texas and Mexico.
Rio Grande
Nueces River
Sabine River
Red River
Who was the first elected president of the Republic of Texas?
Stephen F. Austin
Henry Smith
Sam Houston
Mirabeau B. Lamar
What were some of Sam Houston's goals for the new republic? (More than one answer.)
Peace with the Natives.
Lower Texas debt.
Annex Texas to the United States.
Expand into Mexican territory.
Who was elected second president of the Republic?
Sam Houston
Stephen F. Austin
Lorenzo de Zavala
Mirabeau Lamar
Who is known as the Father of Texas Education?
Stephen F. Austin
George Childress
Moses Austin
Mirabeau Lamar
Who is elected 3rd president of the republic of Texas?
Stephen F. Austin
Sam Houston
Moses Austin
Mirabeau Lamar
Who was the last president of the republic of Texas?
Sam Houston
Stephen F. Austin
Anson Jones
James K. Polk
On what year was Texas annexed to the United States?
1821
1718
1845
1836
Fill in the blanks: _____________ was the primary (#1) cash crop of Texas.
Potatoes
Cotton
Squash
Wheat
Which VIP was one of the three Tejano signers of the Texas Declaration of Independece?
Mary Maverick
Stephen F. Austin
Jose Antonio Navarro
John Coffee Hays
Which of the following are arguments FOR annexation of TX to the USA? (More than one answer.)
To get recognition from other nations
Help pay off TX debt
Military Protection
Another free state into the Union
Fill in the blank: At the time of TX annexation, the North region of the United States had a ____________________ economy.
manufacturing
agricultural
political
blacksmithing
Fill in the blank: During the time of TX annexation, the Southern region of the United States had a ________________ economy.
manufacturing
agricultural
political
blacksmithing
The picture above gives an example of what?
Survival of the fittest
Manifest Destiny
The Great Migration
Trail of Tears
Fill in the Blank: Manifest Destiny is the belief that the U.S was meant to spread __________ across North America.
East
North
South
West
Northerners opposed expansion because they did not want to spread what practice?
Agricultural
Slavery
printing
manufacturing
Which U.S president supported TX annexation?
George Washington
James K. Polk
Sam Houston
Abraham Lincolg
Fill in the blank: Federalism is a system of government where the power is distributed between the _______________ and the ________________ government
state, federal
president, senate
president, federal
senate, national
What is the name of the compromise that settled Texas' borders?
Compromise of 1845
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Mexican Cession
Compromise of 1850
The Mexican Cession territory transferred to the United States under what treaty?
Treaty of Paris
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Treaty of Velasco
Fill in the blank: Native Americans were forced into _______________.
Reservations
plantations
factories
Taxes placed on imported goods that the north supported to allow people to buy manufactured goods from their factories.
Protective Tariff
Sectionalism
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Fugitive Slave Law
Law passed in 1850 that required citizens to catch runaway slaves and return them to the South; judges earned $10 per slave returned to the South
Fugitive Slave Law
Missouri Compromise
Protective Tariff
Sectionalism
Belief that it is more important to focus on your area/region then the nation as a whole.
Protective Tariff
Sectionalism
Missouri Compromise
Kansas-Nebraska Act
In what year did the Civil War begin with the firing upon Ft. Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina?
1836
1845
1861
1876
The act of withdrawing from an organized body is known as...
Abolition
Annexation
Popular Sovereignty
Secession
Who was the President of the Union/USA during the Civil War?
Sam Houston
Abraham Lincoln
Jefferson Davis
What declared slaves in the rebel states of the South free in Sept. of 1862?
Emancipation Proclamation
U.S. Constitution
Declaration of Independence
Bill of Rights
Dred Scott Decision
In which battle does the Union succeed in taking control of the Mississippi River and cutting the Confederacy in half?
Battle of Gettysburg
Battle of Vicksburg
Battle of Petersburg
Battle of the Alamo
Which of the following are military campaigns fought in Texas? (More than one answer.)
Fighting at Galveston
Battle of Sabine Pass
Red River Campaign
Battle of Palmito Ranch
Battle of Vicksburg
General Gordon Granger read Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation in Galveston, TX on June 19, 1865. This event is celebrated in Texas as...
Battle of the Flowers
Juneteenth
FIESTA
Independence Day
Freedom Day
Where were most of the significant battles in Texas fought?
Along the Brazos River
In San Antonio, TX
Along the Gulf of Mexico; to stop the Union Blockade
On the border between Louisiana and Texas
What is a SCALAWAG?
A white southerner who supported Reconstruction
A Northerner in the South working for a Reconstruction
government
The effort, after the Civil War, to reorganize the
seceded states and bring them back into the Union
June 19; the date celebrated as the anniversary of
Emancipation Day for enslaved people in Texas
What is a CARPETBAGGER?
A Northerner in the South working for a Reconstruction
government
A white southerner who supported Reconstruction
A formerly enslaved person
A secret organization of white men formed after the Civil War
that used violence and terror against African Americans
Define RECONSTRUCTION.
The effort, after the Civil War, to reorganize the seceded states and bring them back into the Union
June 19; the date celebrated as the anniversary of Emancipation Day for enslaved people in Texas
Laws limiting the rights of African Americans passed
by Southern governments after the Civil War
Granted all men (including former slaves) the right to vote.
What is a FREEDMEN?
A formerly enslaved person
A republican who believed that Congress should direct Reconstruction
A white southerner who supported Reconstruction
A Northerner in the South working for a Reconstruction government
Define BLACK CODES.
Laws limiting the rights of African Americans passed
by Southern governments after the Civil War
A secret organization of white men formed after the Civil War
that used violence and terror against African Americans
Defined citizenship. Gave equal protection under the law at all
levels of government.
A temporary government
Who are the KU KUX KLAN?
A secret organization of white men formed after the Civil War that used violence and terror against African Americans
A republican who believed that Congress should direct Reconstruction
A Northerner in the South working for a Reconstruction government
A white southerner who supported Reconstruction
Define RADICAL REPUBLICANS.
A republican who believed that Congress should direct Reconstruction (WANTED TO PUNISH THE SOUTH)
A white southerner who supported Reconstruction
A Northerner in the South working for a Reconstruction
government
A formerly enslaved person
What is the 13th Amendment?
Ended slavery and made it illegal.
Defined citizenship. Gave equal protection under the law at all
levels of government.
Granted all men (including former slaves) the right to vote.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Ended slavery and made it illegal.
Defined citizenship. Gave equal protection under the law at all
levels of government.
Granted all men (including former slaves) the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Ended slavery and made it illegal.
Defined citizenship. Gave equal protection under the law at all
levels of government.
Granted all men (including former slaves) the right to vote.
What were people who rented land (because they couldn’t
afford their own land) to grow crops after the Civil War
called?
Scalawag
Tenant Farmers
Republican
Carpetbaggers
What laws prohibiting African Americans from eating in the same restaurants as white Texans during Reconstruction was an example of which kind of laws?
Juneteenth Codes
Jim Crow Laws
Freedom Codes
Scalawag Codes
What group/agency was created by the U.S. Congress in
order to provide help and legal aid to freedpeople after the
Civil War?
Freedmen's Bureau
Carpetbaggers
Scalawags
Unionists
What is "suffrage?"
right to vote
pain
freedom of speech
freedom of African Americans
Name of the new breed of cattle that was a cross between Spanish and English cows.
Longhorn
Cow
Bull
Mustang
A new type of inexpensive drift fencing invention designed with sharp points was known as…
Barbed Wire
Cattle Brand
Electrical Fencing
Close Range
What new technological invention made ranching in the Panhandle possible?
Windmills
Cotton Gin
Mechanical Reaper
Steel Plow
What country brought over the tradition of cattle ranching and vaqueros (cowboys)?
Spain
USA
England
France
Which of the following is a reason why Texans drove their cattle to towns in the North and Midwest?
the railroads and stockyards were located in these towns and then the cattle would be sold for greater amounts of money in these markets
Because all the ranches were in the North and Midwest states
Because cowboys needed jobs
Because cattle was abundant in these areas
Why did ranchers brand their cattle?
to show ownership and identify the animal
to count the animals
to name the animal
In what year was oil discovered in Spindletop?
1901
1865
1861
1877
Towns that grew as a result of the oil boom were called-
Boomtowns
Oil Towns
Spindletop
Industry Towns
What do you call the increase of people living or working in cities?
Urbanization
Rural
Immigration
Progress
Who was governor of Texas in 1890?
James Stephen Hogg
Cyrus McCromick
Eli Whitney
John Deere
True or False: Houston wanted to promote trade and peace with the Native Americans in Texas.
True
False
Which president was against Texas annexation to the U.S?
Houston
Lamar
The first ten amendments to the Constitution are called-
Bill of Rights
Bill of Amendments
The First Ten
U.S Constitution
Which of the following are rights under the 1st Amendment? (More than one answer.)
Religion
Speech
Assembly
Press
Petition
The 2nd amendment gives people the right-
to bear arms
against quartering troops
against unreasonable searches and seizures
know why they are being arrested
Which of the following are branches of government? (More than one answer.)
Judicial
Legislative
Executive
Court
All political power comes from the people. (voting & participation)
Popular Sovereignty
Limited Government
Separation of Powers
Federalism
The power of government is limited, or has restrictions, in order to protect people’s rights.
Limited Government
Federalism
Republicanism
Checks and Balances
Power is divided between the executive, legislative, and
judicial branches of government.
Separation of Powers
Limited Government
Popular Sovereignty
Republicanism
A system in which each branch has ways to check the other
branches in order to prevent one from becoming too powerful.
Checks and Balances
Separation of Powers
Republicanism
Limited Government
Voters elect representatives to serve in the government
and make decisions based on what is wanted by the people they represent.
Republicanism
Federalism
Limited Government
Checks and Balances
Specific rights and freedoms guaranteed to citizens and protected by law.
Protection of Individual Rights
Federalism
Republicanism
Checks and Balances
