3rd Quarter Test Review

Question 1

The population of Beaumont grew from 9,000 residents to nearly _______ within two years of the oil strike at Spindletop.

Accepted Answer

50,000

Question 2

Who established the first ranches in Texas?

Accepted Answer

SPaniards

Question 3

The Civil War began in April 1861 with the Confederate attack on _______________.

Accepted Answer

Fort Sumter

Question 4

The Battle of Galveston was so important if left under Union control, _________ forces could sweep into Texas.

Accepted Answer

northern

Question 5

In the ___________ Comanche and Kiowa leaders agreed to settle on reservations in exchange for an annual stipend.

Accepted Answer

Treaty of Little Arkansas

Question 6

The discovery of oil at Spindleto in ______ marked the beginning of the oil boom in Texas.

Accepted Answer

1901

Question 7

Buffalo soldiers were ___________ ___________ soldiers stationed along the border of Texas and Mexico.

Accepted Answer

African American

Question 8

To provide help and legal aid to freed people, Congress created the

Accepted Answer

The Freedmen's Bureau

Question 9

The discovery of oil at Spindletop eventually affected the prices of oil across the nation by

Accepted Answer

making the prices drop

Question 10

The development of __________ caused the demand for oil to rise dramatically in the mid-1800s.

Accepted Answer

kerosene

Question 11

The __________ was the final blow to the Texas Plains Indians because they had no supplies to survive the coming winter.

Accepted Answer

Palo Duro Canyon

Question 12

Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that grants the right to vote directly for U.S. senators

Accepted Answer

Seventeenth Amendment

Question 13

____________ was chosen by the War Department to lead attacks on Plains Indians who refused to live on the reservations

Accepted Answer

Ranald S. Mackenzie

Question 14

The ___________ Amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery.

Accepted Answer

Thirteenth

Question 15

The main goal of the Hogg Laws was to regulate..........

Accepted Answer

Business practices

Question 16

Big competition between lines threatened stability in the market, promting __________ to create the Texas RR Commission

Accepted Answer

Governor Hogg

Question 17

U.S. Marines were sent to Veracruz in 1914 because the United States feared the arrival of a

Accepted Answer

German weapons shipment

Question 18

One reason the economy slowed after Worl War I was that

Accepted Answer

government spending decreased.

Question 19

When the Civil War began __________ _____________ was the president of the United States.

Accepted Answer

Abraham Lincoln

Question 20

Charles Goodnight and John Adair established the __________ __________ in Palo Duro Canyon.

Accepted Answer

JA Ranch

Question 21

When did people begin drilling for oil in Texas?

Accepted Answer

1866

Question 22

The _____________ Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guaranteed citizenship and equal rights to African Americans.

Accepted Answer

Fourteenth

Question 23

These guns, buffalo guns, were useful because they had ____________.

Accepted Answer

telescopes

Question 24

The Texas longhorn breed originated after _____ breeds mixed with _______ breeds.

Accepted Answer

Spanish - English

Question 25

Between 1872 and 1874, white hunters killed an estimated _____________ buffalo.

Accepted Answer

4.3 million

Question 26

The cattle ranches that arose between Texas and Canada made up the ____________ _________

Accepted Answer

Cattle Kingdom

Question 27

Natural disaster that led to the Galveston's establishment of the commission plan of government

Accepted Answer

Hurricane of 1900

Question 28

Mackenzie's Raiders were guided by scouts of this tribe.....

Accepted Answer

Tonkawa

Question 29

Sectionalism was the result of _____________ and _______________ differences between the North and the South.

Accepted Answer

economic and social

Question 30

Farmers needed new techniques to help them grow crops in West Texas because the climate there was ________.

Accepted Answer

dry

Question 31

The long, light rope used by Texas cowboys was the _________ or "lasso."

Accepted Answer

lariat

Question 32

to move from a wartime economy to a peace economy is the process of __________.

Accepted Answer

demobilization

Question 33

A farmer who rented both land and supplies in exchange for a portion of his crop is a _____________.

Accepted Answer

sharecropper

Question 34

The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) wanted equal rights for......

Accepted Answer

Mexican Americans

Question 35

An advantage held by the South during the war was that the South had more experienced _____________ ______________

Accepted Answer

military leaders

Question 36

Apache chief who led a series of raids into Texas from Mexico.

Accepted Answer

Victorio

Question 37

The ___________ was a herd of horses that cowboys used on cattle drives.

Accepted Answer

remuda

Question 38

As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act made it a __ to assist runaway slaves

Accepted Answer

crime

Question 39

When the U.S. battleship Maine exploded in Havana Harbor in 1898, some Americans blamed.......

Accepted Answer

Spain

Question 40

______________, products made from oil and gas, became an important part of the Texas economy.

Accepted Answer

Petrochemicals

Question 41

At the Battle of _________________ General Henry H. Sibley and his troops were outnumbered by Union troops.

Accepted Answer

Glorieta Pass

Question 42

Who were mostly young men, many were Mexican American or African American and spent much of their time on trail drives?

Accepted Answer

cowboys

Question 43

The group of soldiers led by _____ ______ became famous for helping defeat Spanish troops in the Battle of San Juan Hill

Accepted Answer

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 44

First female governor of Texas

Accepted Answer

Miriam A. "Ma" Ferguson

Question 45

Why did relatively few women and children live in boomtowns?

Accepted Answer

Boomtowns were often rough and dangerous places.

Question 46

Reconstruction officially ended in ______.

Accepted Answer

1877

Question 47

To keep track of the cattle they owned, the _________ __________ ordered cattle owners to put brands on their cattle.

Accepted Answer

Spanish government

Question 48

Farm tools used by Texans in the late 1800s, included horse-drawn plows, two-row planters and ___________.

Accepted Answer

threshers

Question 49

Is the argument that state power is greater than federal power

Accepted Answer

States' Rights

Question 50

The U.S. Army sent __________ in 1871 to investigate Texans' complaints about the Plains Indians.

Accepted Answer

William T. Sherman

3rd Quarter Test Review

Questions 50

3rd Quarter Test Review

Questions 50