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Texas History Spring Semester Exam

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which branch of the government makes the laws?

a)

legislative

b)

executive

c)

judicial

2.

Which branch of the government functions to carry out laws passed by the legislature?

a)

legislative

b)

executive

c)

judicial

3.

Being added to the U.S.

a)

revenue

b)

ratify

c)

recognition

d)

annexation

4.

Which branch of the Texas government functions to interpret laws?

a)

legislative

b)

executive

c)

judicial

5.

What grants full citizenship to all individuals born in the United States?

a)

Thirteenth Amendment

b)

Fourteenth Amendment

c)

Fifteenth Amendment

d)

Sixteenth Amendment

6.

What philosophy meant that the United States was set apart to extend its boundaries all the way to the Pacific?

a)

Manifest Destiny

b)

America's Obligation

c)

joint occupation

d)

annexation

7.

Laws limiting the rights of African Americans passed by Southern governments after the Civil War

a)

pardon

b)

freedman

c)

black codes

8.

When a government branch can limit the powers of the other branches this is called the principle of ____________________.

a)

limited government

b)

federalism

c)

checks and balances

d)

popular sovereignty

9.

June 19th, the date celebrated as the anniversary of Emancipation Day for enslaved people in Texas

a)

black codes

b)

scalawag

c)

Juneteenth

10.

The effort, after the Civil War, to reorganize the seceded states and bring them back into the Union

a)

Unionists

b)

Reconstruction

c)

sectionalism

11.

formerly enslaved person

a)

black codes

b)

freedman

c)

scalawag

12.

Focus on the interests of one’s region

a)

state’s rights

b)

sectionalism

c)

secede

13.

to withdraw from a larger unit one belongs to

a)

sovereign

b)

pardon

c)

secede

14.

Which of the following is a civic responsibility of Texas citizens?

a)

Buying a car

b)

Taking a vaction

c)

Voting for public officials

d)

Participating in a protest march

15.
Which explorer was shipwrecked off Galveston Island? 
a)
Cortes
b)
Coronado
c)
Cabeza de Vaca
d)
La Salle
16.
What region is this?
a)
Coastal Plains
b)
Mountains and Basins
c)
North Central Plains
d)
Great Plains
17.
What region is this?
a)
Great Plains
b)
North Central Plains
c)
Coastal Plains
d)
Mountains and Basins
18.
What Region is this?
a)
Coastal Plains
b)
North Central Plains
c)
Mountains and Basins
d)
Great Plains
19.
What region is this?
a)
Coastal Plains
b)
Mountains and Basins
c)
North Central Plains
d)
Great Plains
20.
What were the three G's that motivated most people to come to the "new world"?
a)
Gold, God, and Glory
b)
Gifts, Gadgets, and Generosity
c)
Gratitude, Guidance, and Goodwill
d)
Goodness, Grace, and Growth
21.
the word for conqueror in Spanish. These people were searching for 3 G's.
a)
explorer
b)
conquistador
c)
empresario
d)
tourist
22.

1. Texas is the ____ largest state.

a)

1st

b)

2nd

c)

3rd

23.

2. Texas is bordered by ____ states.

a)

4

b)

3

c)

2

d)

1

24.

3. _____ geography includes natural features, plant life, and weather.

a)

physical

b)

human

25.

5. History is the study of the ____.

a)

Future

b)

Past

c)

Present

26.

6. This River borders Texas and Mexico.

a)

Colorado

b)

Mississippi River

c)

Rio Grande

27.

7. History is often divided into ____ to help study patterns of human history.

a)

eras

b)

days

c)

years

28.

9. The name of the COUNTRY that borders Texas is called what?

a)

New Mexico

b)

Canada

c)

Mexico

29.

10. A _____ is a sphere with a map of the Earth printed on it.

a)

Globe

b)

GPS

c)

bar graph

30.

Oil Derrick

a)

A guy named Derrick who really likes oil

b)

A tall tower which helps support the drilling equipment.

c)

The first gush of oil that comes up when a new oil field is drilled.

31.

A town undergoing rapid growth due to sudden prosperity.

a)

mining town

b)

Oil rush

c)

Boomtown

32.

Site near Beaumont in 1901 where a gusher spewed oil for 9 days at a rate estimated at 100,000 barrels of oil per day. This started the age of oil.

a)

Ranger

b)

Houston

c)

Spindletop

33.

Which event came first?

a)

Spindletop

b)

Galveston Hurricane

c)

Prohibition

d)

World War I

34.
What natural disaster occurred in the year 1900 in Galveston?
a)
Galveston Hurricane
b)
Hurricane Katrina
c)
Hurricane Ike
d)
Issac's Storm
35.

The Emancipation Proclamation

a)

made slavery legal

b)

began slavery

c)

ended slavery in the Confederate states

d)

ended slavery only in the North

36.

Who wrote the Emancipation Proclamation?

a)

Abraham Lincoln

b)

Andrew Jackson

c)

Benjamin Franklin

d)

Ulysses S. Grant

37.

Who won the Civil War?

a)

The Union

b)

The Confederacy

c)

Mexico

d)

Europe

38.

African American soldiers of the Frontier Wars

a)

Black Panthers

b)

Buffalo Soldiers

c)

Freedmen Soldiers

d)

Blackfoot

39.

Rapid growth of the cattle industry occurred because of

a)

demand for beef in the East

b)

High Speed trains

c)

lack of salt pork

d)

Mad Cow disease killed the cattle in the west

40.

What led to the decline of the Open Range

a)

over farming

b)

barbed wire

c)

refrigeration

d)

Indian Wars

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