Texas History Study Guide
I. Geography and Regions of Texas:
1. What body of water is located southeast of Texas?
2. Which two rivers form part of the borders between Texas and other states?
3. On which river is the capital of Texas located?
4.
What is a tributary?
5. Which river is a tributary to the Rio Grande?
6.
What is the definition of a mouth of a river? (p. 16-17)
7. Which city is the closest to the mouth of the Rio Grande?
8. What river forms the boundary between Texas and a foreign country?
9.
What is the definition of the word “source” (p. 16-17)?
10. What city is closest to the source of the Red River?
11. Which river is immediately north of Amarillo?
12. Which Texas city is located on an island?
13. In what ways did settlers have to adapt to deal with the physical features of the Great
Plains?
14. Which natural region receives the greatest amount of annual precipitation?
15. Houston is located in which natural region?
16. Which natural region has the largest population?
II. Native Americans
1. Why was farming important to Native American Cultures?
2. How did the Pueblo Indian tribes in western Texas adapt to the hot summers and cold
winters of that region?
3. How did farming change the way people lived?
4.
What enabled the Comanche to attack other people and become successful hunters?
5. What is a nomad?
6. List the four cultures of Native Americans in Texas.
7. Which Native American tribe was considered the most advanced? Why were they
considered the most advanced tribe?
8.
Which of the four cultures was the most warlike?
9.
Which of the four cultures barely survived by gathering?
10. What is the definition of forage?
11. What is an anthropologist?
12. What is an archaeologist?
1. Know the main explorers in Texas (Pineda, Cabeza de Vaca, Coronado, La Salle, and
Moscoso) and the following information about each--Text ch.4
Pineda:
(1) COUNTRY FOR WHICH HE EXPLORED
(2) AREAS EXPLORED
(3) IMPORTANT ACHIEVEMENTS
Cabeza de Vaca:
(1) COUNTRY FOR WHICH HE EXPLORED
(2) AREAS EXPLORED
(3) IMPORTANT ACHIEVEMENTS
Coronado:
(1) COUNTRY FOR WHICH HE EXPLORED
(2) AREAS EXPLORED
(3) IMPORTANT ACHIEVEMENTS
La Salle:
(1) COUNTRY FOR WHICH HE EXPLORED
(2) AREAS EXPLORED
(3) IMPORTANT ACHIEVEMENTS
Moscoso:
(1) COUNTRY FOR WHICH HE EXPLORED
(2) AREAS EXPLORED
(3) IMPORTANT ACHIEVEMENTS
2. What was the plains animal that was new to Europeans and that looked to them like
cows? Text p.110
3. How was Cabeza de Vaca able to survive among the Native Americans? Text p. 105
4.. What did Coronado find at Cibola and Quivera? What was he looking for? Text p.10810
5. What were Spanish soldiers looking for power and riches called? Text p.103
6. What did La Salle do in the 1680s that is connected to Texas? Text p.113-14
7. What did Spanish officials do when they learned of LaSalle’s fort in Texas? Text p.
8. How did the Spanish respond to La Salle? Text p.114-15
7. What is a term used to describe the Europeans who led expeditions to the Western
Hemisphere (i.e. the Americas)? Text p.116
8. What are examples of the Spanish legacy in Texas? Text p.153
9. When did Mexico gain its independence from Spain (i.e. when did the war for
independence that began in 1810 finally end)?Text p.150
10. How much land did a settler get for himself in Texas from Stephen F. Austin? Text
p.167
-for his wife? ______________________
-for each child? _____________________
-for each slave? ______________________
11. Who was Father Miguel Hidalgo y Castillo? Why is he important? Text p.144-45
12. What were the goals of the mission-presidio system in Texas? Text p.103,130-31
13. Why did most settlers get land in Texas through an empresario? Text p.167
14. What were the requirements to become a settler in Texas? Text p. 167
15. How did the goals of the French and Spanish explorers and colonizers differ? Text p.
115, 103
16. What was the Louisiana Purchase? Text p.141
17. The Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819 between the United States and Spain set the
boundaries of Texas with which two rivers? Text p.141-42
18. What is an empresario? (glossary)
19. List 3 parts of Austin’s proposed land policy (including the price per acre). Text p. 167
20. Who were the “Old Three Hundred”? Text p. 169
21. What city was the capital of Austin’s colony? Text p. 170
22. Who was the most successful empresario? WHY? Text p. 175
Texas Revolution review
1. Who started the Fredonian Revolt?
2. Why did the Fredonian Revolt worry the Mexican government?
3. What was the Mexican response to the Fredonian Revolt?
4. What was the purpose of General Mier y Teran’s trip through Texas?
5. What did Mier y Teran report about Texas?
6. What were the main parts of the Law of April 6, 1830?
7. Why were the Anglos upset about the Law of April 6, 1830?
8. What was the skirmish about at Anahuac in 1832?
9. What was the purpose of the Turtle Bayou Resolutions?
10. Briefly describe the events that led to the Battle of Velasco. What took place here?
11. Briefly summarize the Conventions of 1832 and 1833. What did the Anglo settlers demand?
12. Why did Santa Anna lead a revolt against Centralist President Anastasio Bustamante?
13. Why did colonists support Santa Anna at first?
14. Why was Stephen F. Austin imprisioned?
15. What reforms did Santa Anna agree to?
16. What reform did Santa Anna not grant?
17. Describe the events that happened at Anahuac in 1835. Who was arrested and why?
18. How did General Cos respond to the apology written by local leaders at San Felipe?
19. Why did the colonists call for a Consultation?
20. What did the Peace Party want?
21. What did the War Party want?
22. By the end of 1835, what did Stephen F. Austin believe Santa Anna was becoming?
DEFINE THESE WORDS:
23. customs duty:
24. commerce:
25. skirmish:
Identify the importance of the following people, places, events, and terms:
1. Miriam A. Ferguson (p. 485):
2. Dust Bowl (p. 502):
3. The Great Depression (when did it start and causes of it) (p. 498):
4. 19th amendment (p. 467-468):
5. Dwight Eisenhower (p. 517):
6. Civil Rights Act (p. 561-62):
7. Zimmerman telegram (p. 479):
8. Poll tax (p. 470):
9. Fransisco “Pancho” Villa (p. 478-479):
10. Franklin D. Roosevelt (p. 504-505):
11. Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) (p.561-562):
12. Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ) (p. 560-562):
13. Roaring Twenties:
14. New Deal (spiral or p. 505):
15. Treaty of Versailles (spiral):
16. Nuremburg Trials (spiral):
17. Pearl Harbor (spiral or p. 517):
18. Lend-lease Act (spiral or p. 517):
22. Totalitarian government (spiral or dictionary):
23. Trench warfare (spiral):
26. Holocaust (glossary or p. 524):
28. segregation (p. 470):
Answer the following questions:
29. What were the reasons the US entered WWI (the Great War)? (p. 479-480
34. List some examples of how Texan’s aided the war effort on the home front
during WWII (especially women)? (p. 521)
35. Describe how the US ended the war with Japan during WWII.
36. What is the difference between a primary and a secondary source?
37. Audey Murphy:
Famous Texan that became the most decorated Soldier of World War Two