Deck 1: The Texas Way

Question 1

The plantation that Jared Groce built on the banks of the Brazos River was called:

A) Ellison's Retreat
B) Bernardo
C) Bolivar
D) Eldorado Springs

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Which future U.S. president, visiting Texas in 1848-49, described sugar plantation owner Sterling McNeal as "A shrewd, intelligent, cynical old bachelor"?

A) Andrew Jackson
B) Martin Van Buren
C) James K. Polk
D) Rutherford b. Hayes

Answer 2

D

Question 3

The first Austin colony lay between what two Texas rivers?

A) Brazos and Colorado
B) Nueces and Guadalupe
C) Red and Sabine
D) Trinity and Naches

Answer 3

A

Question 4

The vote of the Texas Secession Convention of 1861 in favor of secession was:

A) 174-0
B) 166-8
C) 148-26
D) 120-54

Question 5

The post-Civil War period of northern military occupation of the South is called:

A) Restoration
B) Trial of Tears
C) Reconstruction
D) Time of Troubles

Question 6

Who was the President of the United States when Texas was admitted to the union in 1845?

A) Andrew Jackson
B) Martin Van Buren
C) Andrew Johnson
D) James K. Polk

Question 7

Who was the Republican Governor of Texas during Reconstruction?

A) James K. Polk
B) Edmund J. Davis
C) Stephen F. Austin
D) Ulysses S. Grant

Question 8

Which of the following was Governor of Texas while the state was part of the Confederacy?

A) Mirabeau b. Lamar
B) Sam Houston
C) Pendleton Murrah
D) Deaf Smith

Question 9

All but which of the following legal devices were used to limit the black vote in early 20^th century Texas:

A) literacy tests
B) poll tax
C) white primary
D) denial of voter registration

Question 10

Which Texan served as Speaker of the U.S. House from the 1940s into the 1960s when the Democrats had the majority?

A) James Buchanan
B) Sam Rayburn
C) Lyndon Johnson
D) Mendell Rivers

Question 11

The wealthiest of Stephen F. Austin's early colonists was:

A) Mirabeau b. Lamar
B) David Brian West
C) Sam Houston Johnson
D) Jared Ellison Groce

Question 12

The convention that declared Texas independence met in what year?

A) 1828
B) 1836
C) 1840
D) 1845

Question 13

Who was the author of the iconic Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans (1968)?

A) T.R. Fehrenbach
B) D. W. Meinig
C) W.W. Newcomb
D) Larry McMurtry

Question 14

The cultural geographer responsible for developing the "Doctrine of First Settlement" was:

A) John Wayne
B) Wilbur Zelinsky
C) Kazimierz Pulaski
D) Allan Shivers

Question 15

The majority of settlers in early Texas came out of what U.S. region?

A) Deep South
B) Upper South
C) Midwest
D) Far West

Question 16

The Texas Secession Convention "Declaration of Causes" dealt principally with what issue?

A) border security
B) state sovereignty
C) slavery
D) fiscal responsibility

Question 17

Texas voters approved secession by a vote of:

A) three-to-one
B) five-to-one
C) eight-to-one
D) ten-to-one

Question 18

Sam Houston was a close personal and political associate of which U.S. president?

A) Thomas Jefferson
B) Andrew Jackson
C) James Buchanan
D) Abraham Lincoln

Question 19

Sam Houston was in elected office in Texas almost steadily from 1836 to 1861. What office did he hold for most of that time?

A) President of Texas
B) U.S. Senator
C) Governor of Texas
D) President of the U.S.

Question 20

Who was President of the United States when Texas was readmitted to the Union in 1870?

A) Andrew Johnson
B) Grover Cleveland
C) James K. Polk
D) Ulysses S. Grant

Question 21

In the study done by H.L. Mencken and Charles Angoff of data from the 1930 Statistical Abstract of the United States, Texas's overall rank was:

A) 19^th
B) 29^th
C) 39^th
D) 49^th

Question 22

Which Texan was Franklin Roosevelt's vice president from 1933 through 1941?

A) John Nance Garner
B) Sam Rayburn
C) Jesse Jones
D) Hattan Sumners

Question 23

Which of the following was not a Texas governor in the 1940s and 1950s?

A) Coke Stevenson
B) Buford Jester
C) Allan Shivers
D) Lyndon Johnson

Question 24

Which Democratic Governor of Texas supported the Republican candidate for president, Dwight Eisenhower, in 1952 and 1956?

A) Allan Shivers
B) John Connally
C) Lyndon Johnson
D) Lloyd Bentsen

Question 25

Describe "the Texas way," its key elements or principles, and how these principles have influenced Texas political development.

Question 26

What impacts, social, political, economic, and psychological, did defeat in the Civil War and military occupation during Reconstruction have on Texas and Texans?

Question 27

Describe Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal and Texas's reaction to it. Distinguish between and explain the differences between the initial reaction in the mid-1930s and the reaction in 1937 and later.

Question 28

When someone uses the phrase "iconic Texan," who do they most likely mean?

Question 29

Describe Wilbur Zelinsky's "Doctrine of First Settlement" and its implications for Texas's cultural and political development.

Question 30

What was it about the administration of Republican Governor Edmund J. Davis during Reconstruction that so upset Anglo Texans?

Question 31

What are "right to work" laws and what are they intended to achieve?

Question 32

What are the strengths and weaknesses of "individualism" as a political value?

Question 33

The earliest Austin colonists are known as "the Old Three Hundred."

Question 34

Prior to arriving in Texas, Sam Houston was governor of Florida.

Question 35

James Fannin was in command at the Alamo when it fell.

Question 36

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

Question 37

John Nance Garner, Franklin Roosevelt's vice president from 1933-1941, was famously nick-named "Cigar Jack."

Question 38

In early Texas, real estate entrepreneurs like Stephen F. Austin were called_______

Question 39

The flight of civilians before Santa Anna's advancing armies is called the_______

Question 40

Two men shared command at the Alamo during the siege. Name at least one of them_______

Question 41

The Republican governor of Texas during Reconstruction was_______

Question 42

The Texan who served as U.S. House Speaker in the 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s was_______

Question 43

The President of the United States when Texas entered the Union if 1845 was_______

Question 44

Texas voters approved the poll tax in what year_______