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Texas and Texans, First Semester Exam Study Guide
GENERAL QUESTIONS
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Know about the Beringer land bridge and why people migrated over it
Know the advantage humans had over animals
Know about culture
Know about a shaman
Know how the earliest Texans obtained food
Know the difference between patrilineal and matrilineal
Know the definitions of Mission, Pueblo, and Presidio and which was
normally the first Spanish settlement
Know the definitions of Viceroy, Missionaries, Friars, and Conquistadors
Know the definition of Republic
Know about the El Camino Real
Know about the Adams-Onis Treaty
Know three things Spain did during the American Revolution
Know about the effect on the United States of the Louisiana Purchase
Know the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1763
Know why East Texans were reluctant to go to San Antonio
Know about the Spanish legacy in Texas
Know the definition of artifact
Know the definition of tepee
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Know who introduced horses to Texas
Know the original name of the Alamo
Know about Cultural Diffusion
Know why seafood is sometimes unsafe to eat
Know the source of most rainfall in Texas
Know the first permanent Spanish settlement in Texas
Know the name of people who have mixed Spanish and Native
American blood
Know who the first European to reach the Mississippi River was
Know who a Tejano is
Know the first capital of Texas (1722)
Know the current capital of Texas
Know about absolute and relative location
Know about Human-Environment Interaction
Know about Ecosystems
Know about a plateau
Know which river provides irrigation in Southern and Western Texas
Know the most important cash crop of the Rio Grande Valley
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