Texas History Exam 1 review questions

Which of the following is not a characteristic of the Post Oak Savannah?

A) Sandy Soil
B) Petroleum
C) Post Oak Timber
D) Agriculture

What is a Characteristic of the first dwellers Desert Culture?

A) Hunted large game animals like bison and mammoth
B) Burned woodlands to fertilize large trees to collect food
C) Created baskets and nets for fishing, prickly pears, and seeds
D) Farmers (lived in one place)

What was not a purpose of the Spanish Missions?

A) Provide safety to travelers
B) A territorial claim to get more land for Spain
C) To value tax paying citizens
D) To convert Native Americans to Catholicism

True or False

The Cherokee tribe was relatively small, and had trouble adopting to european culture.

Which of these are not plains Indians

A) Wichita
B) Comanche
C) Apache
D)Tonkawa
E) Karankawa

Which mission was the first permanent mission in Texas?

A) La Bahia
B) Ft. St. Louis
C) Corpus Christi de la Ysleta
D) San Antonio

Which Indian group was involved in the San Saba attack of 1758

A) Comanche
B) Apache
C) Caddo
D) Tonkawa

Which was not part of the Adams-Onis Treaty

A) Sabine set as Eastern border of TX
B) Spain gives up Oregon
C) U.S gives up Oklahoma
D) Spain sells Florida to U.S

Which of the following was not an Empresario?

A) Stephen F. Austin
B) Martin de Leon
C) Philip Nolan
D) Haden Edwards

According to the state colonization law (1825) how much land would a rancher be given?

A) 3,752 acres
B) 2,892 acres
C) 4,428 acres
D) 6375 acres

Which natural region of Texas contains the Llano Basin, Edwards Plateau, and High Plains?

A) North Central Plains
B) Great Plains
C) Coastal Plains
D) Basin and Mountain
E) None of the above

Where did Columbus think he landed?

What mission served as a supply station and midway point between Mexico and the Eastern Texas missions on the frontier since 1718?
A) San Antonio de Valero/ Bexar/ Alamo
B) La Bahia
C) San Francisco de los Tejas
D) Corpus Christi de la Ysleta

What did the Treaty of Paris (1783) do?

La Salle established which fort in Texas?

What was the main belief of the federalist?

What is the significance of the silk road to Spanish exploration?

According to the state colonization law of 1825, how much land is a farmer given?

From what group of Indians does the word Tejas come from?

The Island of Malhado is also known as?

Who survived the exploration in Adventures?

What makes the Pineda stone historically inaccurate?

A) the 7
B) the n
C) both a and b
D) the stone is accurate