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Texas History Review
7th grade Texas History Midterm Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| THE FIRST PEOPLE KNOWN TO LIVE IN TEXAS | NATIVE AMERICANS |
| ONLY ONE STATE IN LARGER THAN TEXAS. IT IS | CALIFORNIA |
| WHICH RIVER FORMS THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN TEXAS AND MEXICO | SABINE |
| A _________________ IS A MAN-MADE LAKE. | DAM |
| THE SQUARE NORTHERN PART OF TEXAS IS REFERRED TO AS THE _______________________ | CAPROCK |
| ANOTHER NAME FOR TEXAS IS | LONGHORN STATE |
| THE STATE FAIR OF TEXAS IS LOCATED IN WHICH TEXAS CITY? | HOUSTON |
| THE ALAMO IS LOCATED IN WHICH TEXAS CITY? | SAN ANTONIO |
| WHICH RIVER FORMS THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN TEXAS AND LOUISIANA? | GUADALUPE |
| THE BIG BEND AREA, WHERE THE RIO GRANDE BENDS, IS LOCATED IN WHICH TEXAS SUB REGION? | EDWARDS PLATEAU |
| A _______________ IS A LARGE NORTH AMERICAN ANIMAL WITH SHORT HORNS; IT IS OFTEN CALLED THE AMERICAN BUFFALO. | LONGHORN |
| __________________ IS A SCIENTIST WHO STUDIES PAST HUMAN LIFE BY STUDYING FOSSILS AND ARTIFACTS. | A FOSSILIST |
| A _____________________ TEST CHECKS THE AGE OF AN ANCIENT ITEM. | RADIO-CARBON |
| THE FIRST PEOPLE CAME TO THE AMERICAS FROM THE CONTINENT OF _________________________ | AFRICA |
| DURING THE ________________ ERA, THE FIRST OF TEXAS' PREHISTORIC PERIODS, MEN WERE WANDERING BIG GAME HUNTERS | PALEO-AMERICANO |
| ARCHAIC MAN TAMED WHAT ANIMAL? | HOG |
| ________________________ ARE INDIAN PICTURE WRITINGS FOUND ON CAVE WALLS AND ROCKS WHICH TELL STORIES OF EARLY TEXAS TRIBES | CAVE WRITINGS |
| ANOTHER NAME FOR SHAMAN IS _____________________ | MEDICINE MAN |
| _____________________ WAS DONE TO ENEMIES KILLED BY INDIANS SO THAT THEIR SOUL WOULD NOT ESCAPE TO HEAVEN AND COME BACK TO HAUNT THEM. | SCALPING |
| THE SPANISH NAME FOR A WILD HOG OR BOAR IS _________________________ | BISONITO |
| IN THE PALEO-AMERICA ERA MAN USED AN ATLATL TO HUNT GAME. AN ATLATL IS A ___________________ | PRIMITIVE SWORD |
| THE KARANKAWAS WERE ___________________ BECAUSE THEY CLAIMED THAT BY EATING THE FLESH OF THEIR ENEMIES THEY WOULD GAIN STRENGTH AND COURAGE. | CANNIBALS |
| THE ___________________________ WERE THE BEST FARMERS OF ALL TEXANS INDIANS | CADDOES |
| THE MOST IMPORTANT FOOD TO TEXAS INDIANS WAS | CORN |
| THE COMANCHE INDIANS WERE NOMADS THAT FOLLOWED HERDS OF ______________ FOR CLOTHING, FOOD AND SHELTER. | BISON |
| TAYSHA MEANS _______________________ | FRIEND |
| THE ADOBE USED BY THE JUMANO HELPED THEM TO _______________________ | INSULATE THEIR HOMES |
| TEPEES WERE WELL-SUITED FOR ___________________________________ | THE NOMADIC WAY OF LIFE |
| PEMMICAN WAS IMPORTANT TO THE PLAINS INDIANS BECAUSE | IT WAS EASY TO CARRY |
| WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING WAS OF CENTRAL IMPORTANCE TO THE COMANCHES | THE HORSE |
| COAHUILTECAN IS TO MILOTE AS ________________________ IS TO THE SUN DANCE | KIOWA |
| THE "BLACK GOLD" THAT MOSCOSO REPORTED WAS ACTUALLY THE RESOURCE THAT WE CALL ______________________________ | OIL |
| THE 7 CITIES OF GOLD WERE LOCATED AT ______________________________ | CIBOLA |
| AFTER ALL THE SPANISH EXPLORATION INTO NORTH AMERICA, THE VICEROY DECIDED TO ______________________________ | SEND IN MISSIONARIES TO CHRISTIANIZE THE NATIVES |
| BY 1700, THE MAJOR COLONIZERS AND PROTECTORS OF THE AREA KNOWN AS TEXAS WERE _______________- | PRIESTS |
| THE _______________ INTRODUCED THE HORSE TO THE TEXAS INDIANS | SPANISH |
| AS A SCOUT LOOKING FOR THE 7 CITIES OF GOLD, ESTEBAN WAS TO SEND BACK TO CAMP A _______________ IF THERE WAS TREASURE AHEAD | WHITE CROSS |
| ______________________ WAS THE FIRST SPANISH COLONY ON THE MAINLAND OF NORTH AMERICA | TENOCHTITLAN |
| THE HUNCH-BACKED COWS THAT CABEZA DE VACA REPORTED ABOUT WERE REALLY ________________________ | BUFFALO |
| THE NARVAEZ EXPEDITION WAS SHIPWRECKED ON WHAT ISLAND? | GLAVESTON |
| ___________________ WAS CORONADO'S GUIDE THROUGH TEXAS AS HE SEARCHED FOR QUIVIRA | THE TURK |
| SPANISH FORTS THAT PROTECTED THE MISSIONS WERE CALLED ________________________- | PRESIDIOS |
| ________________ WAS THE FRENCH EXPLORER WHO DISCOVERED THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER AND GAVE FRANCE A SMALL CLAIM TO TEXAS | LASALLE |
| THE FIRST FRENCH PEOPLE TO LAND IN TEXAS NAME THEIR SETTLEMENT _________________________ | FORT ST. LOUIS |
| THE SURVIVOR OF LA SALLE'S COLONY WERE CAPTURED BY THE | KARANKAWA |
| THE SPANISH PRIEST FATHER ___________________ ASKED FRANCE FOR HELP IN ESTABLISHING A MISSION AMONG THE CADDOES | HIDALGO |
| WHAT EFFECT DID LA SALLE'S SETTLEMENT HAVE ON THE SPANISH | IT MADE THEM REALIZE THAT THEY WOULD HAVE TO BUILD MORE SETTLEMENTS TO KEEP OUT THE FRENCH. |
| WHICH OF THESE IS TRUE OF THE FIRST EAST TEXAS MISSIONS? | EPIDEMICS, DROUGHT AND HOSTILITY OF THE INDIANS FORCED THE PRIESTS TO ABANDON THE MISSIONS. |
| WHY DID THE MISSION OF SAN SABA FAILS? | THE COMANCHES BURNED IT. |
| THE 2 MOST DANGEROUS INDIAN TRIBES THAT THE SPANISH FACED IN TEXAS WERE | APACHE & COMANCHE |
| ____________ MISSION BY ELPASO WAS THE FIRST PERMANENT SETTLEMENT BUILT IN TEXAS BY EUROPEANS | YSLETA |
| ____________ COUNTY WAS ESTABLISHED AROUND THE SAN ANTONIO AREA | BEXAR |
| _____________ WAS CALLED THE "LAST CONQUISTADOR" | ONATE |
| _______________ WAS THE MAJOR RELIGION OF THE SPANISH | ROMAN CATHOLIC |
| GIL YBARBO LOOK HOMESICK EAST TEXANS BACK TO ____________________ | NACOGDOCHES |
| WHAT WAS THE MAIN CONTRIBUTION MADE BY THE MARQUES DE RUBI IN HIS REPORT | SPAIN COULD NO LONGER AFFORD ITS MISSIONS AND PRESIDIOS AND THEY OUGHT TO BE ABANDONED. |
| WHICH U.S. PRESIDENT WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PURCHASE OF LOUISIANA? | JEFFERSON |
| WHO CAPTURED MUSTANGS AND WAS CONSIDERED A SPY BY THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT? | NOLAN |
| THE U.S. BOUGHT LOUISIANA FROM _____________________- | FRANCE |
| HOW MUCH DID THE U.S. PAY FOR LOUISIANA? | $15 MILLION |
| UNDER THE ADAMS-0NIS TREATY, THE U.S. GAVE UP ALL CLAIMS TO TEXAS, AND SPAIN WOULD GIVE UP___________ | FLORIDA |
| WHY WAS JEAN LAFITTE GIVEN A PARDON BY JEFFERSON WHEN HE WAS PRESIDENT? | BECAUSE HE HELPED THE U.S. IN TEH BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS. |
| THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT WHICH FINALLY FREED MEXICO FROM SPAIN _________________ | WAS FINALLY SET UP IN 1821 |
| THE NEW GOVERNMENT SET UP IN TEXAS AFTER MEXICO FROM SPAIN _____________________ | RECOGNIZED ITURBIDE AS NEW EMPEROR OF MEXICO |
| NAME THE IRISHMAN WHO, ALONG WITH GUTIERREZ, LED THE REPUBLICAN ARMY OF THE NORTH. | MAGEE |
| NAME THE LEADER OF THE ANGLO-AMERICAN EXPEDITION SENT TO INVADE TEXAS AND SET UP A REPUBLIC | AUGUSTUS MAGEE |
| THE FIRST ANGLO-AMERICAN WOMAN TO SETTLE IN TEXAS AND BECOME A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSWOMAN WAS _______________ | JANE LONG |
| ALL OF THE FOLLOWING TYPES OF PEOPLE WERE ENCOURAGED TO IMMIGRANT TO TEXAS EXCEPT ____________________ | GAMBLERS |
| WHY DID MOSES AUSTIN BECOME INTERESTED IN GETTING A CONTRACT TO BRING SETTLERS TO TEXAS | HE LOST ALL OF HIS MONEY IN A FINANCIAL PANIC |
| THE BUSINESS PEOPLE THAT BROUGHT SETTLERS INTO TEXAS WERE CALLED | EMPRESARIOS |
| BARON DE BASTROP HELPED MOSES AUSTIN BY ________________________ | CONVINCING SPANISH OFFICIALS TO ACCEPT HIS PLAN FOR SETTLEMENT |
| THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT TRIED TO STOP THE MOVEMENT OF AMERICANS INTO TEXAS BY _____________ | PASSING THE DECREE OF APRIL 6, 1830 |
| WHICH OF THESE CAUSED TROUBLE BETWEEN TEXAS AND MEXICO? | THE MEXICAN WANTED TO ABOLISH SLAVERY AND MANY TEXANS OWNED SLAVES. |
| THE FIRST BATTLE OF GONZALES WAS OVER A ___________ | CANNON |
| THE REPUBLIC OF FREDONIA WAS LOCATED IN ______________ TEXAS | EAST |
| WHAT STOPPED THE FREDONIAN REBELLION? | THE FREDONIANS FLED WHEN THEY HEARD THE MEXICAN ARMY WAS COMING. |
| WHAT OFFERED DID U.S. PRESIDENT JOHN Q. ADAMS MAKE REGARDING TEXAS? | HE OFFERED TO BUY IT FOR THE U.S. |
| WHY DID THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT ASK GENERAL MIER Y TERAN TO TOUR TEXAS | TO FIND OUT WHAT MEXICO COULD DO TO HOLD ONTO TEXAS |
| WHICH OF THESE DID SANTA ANA NOT AGREE TO WHEN S.F. AUSTIN WENT TO MEXICO WITH TEXAS DEMANDS | HE WOULD MAKE TEXAS A SEPARATE STATE FROM COAHUILA. |
| HOW LONG DID S.F. AUSTIN REMAIN IN THE MEXICAN JAIL WHEN HE WENT TO PRESENT TEXAS DEMAND | 2 YEARS |
| WHAT DID SANTA ANNA DO THAT CAUSED THE TEXANS TO NO LONGER SUPPORT HIM? | HE DID AWAY WITH THE CONSTITUTION OF 1824; SENT MORE TAX COLLECTORS INTO TEXAS; SENT MORE SOLDIERS INTO TEXAS |
| THE FLAG THAT FLEW OVER THE FIRST BATTLE OF THE TEXAS REVOLUTION SAID ___________________________ | LIBERTY AND INDEPENDENCE |
| ______________ IS A FORM OF GOVERNMENT WHERE THE PEOPLE HAVE A VOICE IN THE GOVERNMENT | DEMOCRACY |
| A ____________________ IS A RULER WITH COMPLETE POWER | DICTATOR |
| THE ________________ BROTHERS LED THE FREDONIAN REBELLION | EDWARDS |
| ANOTHER TERM FOR CUSTOMS DUTIES IS | TAXES |
| WHY WAS THE MEETING KNOWN AS " THE CONSULTATION " HELD? | TO DECIDE TO ALIGN WITH FEDERALIST AND RESTORE RIGHTS GRANTED UNDER CONSTITUTION OF 1824 OR FIGHT FOR INDEPENDENCE |
| THE WAR FOR TEXAS INDEPENDENCE LASTED ____________ | ONLY A FEW MONTHS ( 6 MONTHS) |
| IN THE GRASS FIGHT, THE TEXANS WERE TRYING TO CAPTURE _____________________ | SILVER |
| WHAT WAS JAMES BOWIE ORDERED BY SAM HOUSTON TO DO AT THE ALAMO? | TAKE THE WEAPON AND DESTROY IT. |
| WHICH OF THESE WAS NOT AT THE ALAMO | MILAM |
| WHAT IS ONE REASON THAT THE BATTLE OF THE ALAMO IS SO IMPORTANT? | IT MADE TEXANS SO "FIGHTING MAD" THAT THEY WERE ABLE TO WIN THE REVOLUTION. |
| WHAT DID THE SONG " EL DEQUELLO" MEAN WHEN IT WAS PLAYED BY THE MEXICAN ARMY? | NO PRISONERS WOULD BE TAKEN AND NO MERCY WOULD BE SHOWN |
| LEGEND SAYS TAT TRAVIS DREW A LINE IN THE ALAMO SOMETIME ON MARCH 3RD. WHAT WAS THIS LINE SUPPOSED TO REPRESENT? | HE SAID THAT THOSE WHO WISHED TO STAY AND DEFEND THE ALAMO SHOULD CROSS THE LINE. |
| MARCH 2, 1836 IS TO TEXAS AS WHAT DATE IS TO THE UNITED STATES? | JULY 4, 1776 |
| THE RUNAWAY SCRAPE WAS ____________________- | WHEN THE TEXANS FLED THEIR HOMES WHEN THEY THOUGHT THE MEXICANS WERE COMING |
| WHICH OF THESE BEST DESCRIBED THE ARMY LED BY HOUSTON? | THEY WERE UNTRAINED, BUT LOYAL AND DEVOTED TO HOUSTON |
| THE TWIN SISTERS WERE _______________________________ | TWO CANNONS THAT WERE SENT TO THE PEOPLE OF TEXAS BY THE CITIZENS OF CINCINNATI |
| THE TEXANS WERE ABLE TO WIN THE BATTLE OF SAN JACINTO BECAUSE | THEY WERE ABLE TO SURPRISE THE MEXICAN ARMY AND CATCH THEM OFF GUARD |
| AFTER THE BATTLE OF SAN JACINTO | SANTA ANA WAS FOUND HIDING IN THE WOODS AND HOUSTON SPREAD HIS LIFE. |
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