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Texas CDB #2 Review

Total questions: 35

Worksheet time: 29mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The state of Texas has the right as a state to set up it's own government but that government must also follow the laws of the United States government. The principle of government that encourages a balance of power between national and state government is...

a)

republicanism

b)

separation of powers

c)

checks and balances

d)

federalism

2.

Texas and United States government are similar in that they both have 3 branches of government: The Executive Branch, Legislative Branch, and Judicial Branch of Government. What principle of government is this?

a)

Separation of Powers

b)

Republicanism

c)

Individual Rights

d)

Federalism

3.

Which principle of government that allows the people to vote for elected representatives in the legislative branch.

a)

Federalism

b)

Separation of Powers

c)

Republicanism

d)

Individual Rights

4.

Which Texas president wanted to remove the Native American tribes from Texas, and wanted to keep Texas independent instead of being annexed into the United States?

a)

Sam Houston

b)

Mirabeau Lamar

c)

Anson Jones

d)

Stephen F. Austin

5.

Why was the United States hesitant to annex Texas as a state?

a)

Texas was a slave state

b)

Texas was not independent and had no written constitution

c)

Texas many with Native American conflicts

d)

United States did not recognize Texas as independent from Mexico

6.

Many hill country towns were founded by German immigrants. Out of all the places in the world, what attracted them to move to and settle in Texas?

a)

the supply of high-paying skilled jobs.

b)

the promise of cheap farm land

c)

the religious persecution in their home country

d)

they came to work on the railroad

7.

Texas and the United States claimed this river as the border between the United States and Mexico _________.

a)

Nueces River

b)

Rio Grande River

c)

Red River

d)

Trinity River

8.

What goes in the blank space?

1835 - Texas Revolution

1836 - Republic of Texas

1845 - _____________________

1861 - The start of the Civil War

a)

US Civil War

b)

Annexation of Texas

c)

Mexican Revolution

d)

US Mexican War

9.

Which terms complete the diagrams causes (left) and effects (right)?

a)

Cause: Migration of Americans to Texas

Effect: Immigration of Europeans to the Hill Country

b)

Cause: Financial Debt of the Republic of Texas

Effect: Annexation of Texas

c)

Cause: Disputed Border Between Texas and Mexico

Effect: Rio Grande Becomes Official Border

d)

Cause: Disputed Border Between Texas and Mexico

Effect: Bloodshed at Brownsville

10.
Which of the following Ended the war and forced Mexico to turn over much of its north territory to the United States?
a)
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
b)
Gadsden Purchase
c)
New Mexico and Arizona Purchase
d)
Guadalupe Purchase
11.

Which area on the map shows the land called the Mexican Cession which was given to the U.S. after the US-Mexican War?

a)

3

b)

5

c)

7

d)

8

12.

What was an effect of the Mexican Cession?

a)

It led to more disputes about slavery

b)

It led to conflict over the buffalo

c)

The treaty of Velasco was signed

d)

It ended all conflicts with the British

13.

What happened to Texas in 1861?

a)

Texas seceded and joined the Confederacy during the Civil War

b)

Texas wanted to become its own country again

c)

Texas was annexed as a state in the United States

d)

Texas gained its independence from Mexico

14.

sectionalism, states' rights, tariffs, and slavery were all causes of which war?

a)

The U.S.-Mexican War 1846-1848

b)

The Civil War 1861-1865

c)

The Texas Revolution 1835-1836

d)

The Red River War 1874

15.

How did the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments protect the rights of African Americans?

a)

Northern states had to follow these three amendments otherwise they could be arrested.

b)

Southern states had to follow these three amendments or otherwise they could be arrested.

c)

The Constitution now gave white Americans new rights.

d)

The Constitution now stated that African Americans had to be offered the same opportunities as whites.

16.

Which one of these did Southerners NOT use as an attempt to stop African-Americans from voting?

a)

Literacy tests

b)

Poll Taxes

c)

US Citizenship checks

d)

Grandfather clause

17.

What do you notice about cotton production from 1850 to 1880?

a)

Cotton production declined after the Civil War

b)

Cotton production increased after the Civil War

c)

Cotton production was replaced with the cattle drives

d)

sharecropping became illegal during reconstruction

18.

The following were a part of the history of which region of Texas?


Buffalo Soldiers

Relocation of the plains Indians

Quanah Parker

Cattle Drives

Barbed wire fences

Railroads coming to Texas

a)

Central Texas

b)

Coastal Plains

c)

South Texas

d)

West Texas

19.

The cattle drives started when Texans need to take their cattle to cities with railroads. This proved to many Texans the need to have railroads built in and through Texas cities. All of the following are reasons why building railroads would be important, EXCEPT...

a)

connecting Texas cities to other cities in the United States

b)

Easier way to trade goods

c)

Faster mode of transportation

d)

it would increase the Texas cattle drives

20.

What is urbanization?

a)

the increase of people working and living in a single area; becoming a city

b)

the increase of people working and living in the country far from others; farm life

c)

the increase ban on large cars in small areas

d)

the decrease of a population from a single area

21.

What is industrialization?

a)

the building of factories next to large plantations

b)

the development of sharecropping on a large plantation

c)

the development of less agriculture and more manufacturing industries in an area

d)

the development of cattle ranching where railroads stop at the ranch

22.

What was the purpose of the cattle drive?

a)

to move the diseased cows out of Texas

b)

to move cows north to railroad connections, and then to markets for profit

c)

to move the cows onto reservations for the Indians to hunt

d)

NONE of these are correct

23.

How did the expanding railroads in Texas help the Texas economy?

a)

they allowed farmers and ranchers to move their goods to market quickly

b)

they brought goods and people to Texas from Europe

c)

they were only for the elite citizens since tickets were expensive

d)

They were used to transport students to their magical private school

24.

Who brought the first cattle to Texas?

a)

Mexican friars

b)

Anglo settlers

c)

French traders

d)

Spanish explorers

25.

What problem did the invention of barbed wire create?

a)

fence-cutting wars between ranchers and farmers, requiring the Texas Rangers help

b)

disagreements over the best use of the wire [either a weapon or a type of clothing]

c)

the wire attracted lightning strikes, which happened often in West Texas

d)

NONE of these answers are correct

26.

Which invention had the GREATEST impact on settlers in West Texas?

a)

Steal Plow

b)

Barbed Wire

c)

Lightbulb

d)

Revolver

27.

Which Amendment said that anyone born in the U.S. is a citizen?

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

28.

Which amendment expanded suffrage to black men?

a)

Amendment 26

b)

Amendment 15

c)

Amendment 14

d)

Amendment 13

29.
The 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution...
a)
Gave African Americans citizenship
b)
Gave African Americans the right to vote
c)
Freed the slaves
d)
Gave landowners the right to sharecrop
30.
The 15th Amendment of the United States Constitution...
a)
Gave African Americans the right to own businesses
b)
Freed the Slaves
c)
Gave African Americans the right to vote
d)
Forced African Americans back into slavery
31.
Which of the following was not a part of the Freedman's Bureau?
a)
Helped reconnecting slaves with their families
b)
Helped create African American Colleges
c)
Helped feed slaves
d)
Forced African Americans to become sharecroppers
32.
The process of rebuilding the South after the Civil War. 
a)
Reconstruction
b)
Freedman's Bureau
c)
Black Codes
d)
Jim Crow Laws
33.

Which is the BEST description of the southern economy during Reconstruction?

a)

The southern economy was stabilized because of trade relationships with Great Britain and France.

b)

The southern economy was still based on agriculture and cotton, but now depended on sharecropping rather than slave labor

c)

The southern economy was transformed from being based on agriculture to being completely dependent on industry and manufacturing.

d)

The southern economy was completely restored by 1866 and was actually more productive and profitable than the pre- Civil War economy.

34.

Why is Republic of Texas President Mirabeau B. Lamar known as the "Father of Texas Education?"

a)

He set aside land for public schools

b)

He wrote the first standards from public education

c)

He purchased the first set of textbooks for public education.

d)

He created a college that trained teachers for public schools.

35.

What differences did Mirabeau B. Lamar and Sam Houston have?

a)

Lamar didn't want to tax the people

b)

Lamar wanted Texas to stay independent

c)

Houston wasn't worried about the debt.

d)

Houston did not want to become part of the United States