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Review for Benchmk 3
7th Grade Social Studies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| True or False - Texas Natives respected the environment and protected the natural resources. | True |
| An adaptation that the Apache and Comanche used to help them survive | Their homes were tipis that could easily be broken down, moved, and set up again as they followed buffalo herds to survive. |
| A modification to the land that the Jumano tribe did to help them survive | The Jumano tribe modified the landscape by digging irrigation canals that allowed water to reach their crops in the dry West part of Texas. |
| The Spanish explorer that survived a hurricane off the coast of Texas, explored the coastal plains, and convinced many future conquistadors to explore Texas as well. | Cabeza de Vaca |
| de Pineda and Cabeza de Vaca | Famous Spanish explorers during the Colonial Era |
| the influence of Father Damian Massanet | encouraged de Leon to occupy Texas and built the Catholic mission of San Francisco de los Tejas to spread Christianity |
| life in a Spanish mission for Texas Indians | They lived there, learned about Catholicism, and took care of crops and cattle |
| reasons for building Spanish missions | teach Indians the Spanish way of life, get them to become Catholics, and to protect the Northern frontier |
| the country that first settled Texas | Spain |
| missions | where Spanish priests and Native Americans lived together |
| presidios | Spanish military forts |
| ranchos | farms that over time grew into settlements |
| the year Mexico gained its independence from Spain | 1821 |
| what Mexico did to encourage people to settle in Texas | it offered empresario land grants to Anglos |
| True or False - The Old 300 that came to Texas did NOT have slaves. | False - Many of them were slave owners. |
| what General Manuel de Mier y Teran noticed when he surveyed Texas | US settlers outnumbered Tejanos in some parts of Texas and the Mexican influence had started to decline |
| the Texas city where the Battle of the Alamo took place | San Antonio |
| True or False - William B. Travis had an attitude of Victory or Death when he and the others inside the Alamo were outnumbered against General Santa Anna and the Mexican army. | True |
| Battle of the Alamo | Santa Anna and the Mexican army won this battle, but this spurred the Texans on to the next battle at Goliad |
| Battle of San Jacinto | Sam Houston and his men defeated Santa Anna and the Mexican army, it lasted only 18 minutes, and Texas gained its independence from Mexico |
| First Texas Navy | was commissioned during the Republic of Texas (when Texas was its own country for about 10 years) |
| Mirabeau B. Lamar | fought at the Battle of San Jacinto, was the vice president and president of the Republic of Texas |
| Sam Houston | military war hero, served as President of the Texas Republic for 2 terms, reduced our government debt, wanted peaceful relationships with the Indians |
| grievances listed in the Texas Declaration of Independence | must have freedom of religion, a trial by jury, and a public school system |
| where immigrants from places like Germany, Czech, and Ireland settled when they came to Texas | along Texas rivers because water sources are so important |
| one major cause of the Mexican American War | border dispute in Texas based on rivers |
| annexation of Texas | The US agrees to annex (add) Texas as a state after Texas wins its independence from Mexico during a revolution |
| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | This ended the Mexican American War, changed the borders of the US, set the Rio Grande River as the southern border of Texas, and gave the US land all the way to California only for $15 million. |
| Manifest Destiny | when the US wanted to expand westward all the way across the country to the Pacific Ocean, but the US needed to gain Texas along the way |
| Fugitive Slave Act | Many people in the North were against this because they felt like the government was supporting the idea of slavery. |
| which side was Texas a part of during the Civil War | the South, Confederacy, because Texas depended on slavery at the time |
| what northern states focused on | factories, producing fabrics and goods, had lots of low paid workers |
| what southern states focused on | producing cotton and other cash crops, depended on slaves to work the large plantations |
| Civil War Era | Southern states broke away from the US and joined the Confederacy, President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, the North won |
| Reconstruction Era | the 13th Amendment ended slavery, Congress sent military to the Southern states to make sure civil rights were upheld, and the Freedmen's Bureau offered services to former slaves to help them out |
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