Deck 1: Texas and the Texans: Then and Now

Question 1

Texas gained its independence from Mexico in what year?

A) 1815
B) 1828
C) 1836
D) 1845

Answer 1

C

Question 2

How much time elapsed between the fall of the Alamo and the Mexican surrender at San Jacinto?

A) 6 weeks
B) 6 months
C) 9 months
D) 2 years

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Which of the following states is characterized principally by the moralistic political culture?

A) Massachusetts
B) Illinois
C) Texas
D) Nevada

Answer 3

A

Question 4

What region of Texas is most identified with German settlers?

A) the valley
B) the hill country
C) the panhandle
D) the metroplex

Question 5

The great Permian Basin oil field is near what Texas city?

A) Houston
B) Midland
C) Ranger
D) Kilgore

Question 6

In 2020, the Hispanic share of the Texas population was about?

A) 60%
B) 50%
C) 40%
D) 28%

Question 7

What percent of the Texas population lives in the triangle connecting Houston, DFW, and San Antonio?

A) 85%
B) 70%
C) 60%
D) 45%

Question 8

The 2010 census reported Texas to be what percent urban?

A) 65 percent
B) 75 percent
C) 85 percent
D) 95 percent

Question 9

Before Sam Houston came to Texas, he was governor of what state?

A) Florida
B) Virginia
C) Tennessee
D) Missouri

Question 10

Texas is the second largest state in the union, behind only?

A) Alaska
B) New York
C) California
D) Montana

Question 11

In what century did the Spanish explorers Cabeza de Vaca and Coronado explore what is now the American Southwest?

A) 15^th
B) 16^th
C) 17^th
D) 18^th

Question 12

Texas joined the United States in what year?

A) 1776
B) 1815
C) 1836
D) 1845

Question 13

How long was Texas an independent republic?

A) 4 years
B) 10 years
C) 20 years
D) 30 years

Question 14

Who was Governor of Texas when Texas voted to secede from the Union?

A) Andrew Jackson
B) Stephen F. Austin
C) Edmund J. Davis
D) Sam Houston

Question 15

Which of the following states is characterized principally by the traditionalistic political culture?

A) Massachusetts
B) Illinois
C) Texas
D) Oregon

Question 16

Which is the largest city in Texas?

A) San Antonio
B) Austin
C) Houston
D) Dallas

Question 17

Which river forms much of the northern border of Texas?

A) Rio Grande
B) Guadalupe
C) Colorado
D) Red

Question 18

The first big oil strike in Texas took place at Spindletop near Beaumont in?

A) 1901
B) 1917
C) 1930
D) 1941

Question 19

In 2020, the Anglo share of the Texas population was about?

A) 75%
B) 60%
C) 40%
D) 25%

Question 20

In 2020, the black share of the Texas population was about?

A) 40%
B) 30%
C) 22%
D) 12%

Question 21

The Texas population in 2020 was about?

A) 30 million
B) 21 million
C) 18 million
D) 15 million

Question 22

What types of jobs are expected to grow most rapidly over the next decade?

A) First responders
B) Construction laborers
C) Financial advisers
D) Manufacturing

Question 23

Texas median household income in 2019 ranked where among the 50 states?

A) 45^th
B) 35^th
C) 23^rd
D) 15^th

Question 24

Where does Texas rank among the 50 states in proportion of adults who have graduated from high school or earned a G.E.D.?

A) 1^st (best)
B) 20^th
C) 40^th
D) 50^th

Question 25

Which American president fought a war with Mexico to secure Texas and win the rest of the Southwest?

A) Andrew Jackson
B) Henry Clay
C) James K. Polk
D) James Buchanan

Question 26

Describe the socio-demographic changes that have occurred in Texas since 1820 and how those changes are expected to develop over the next several decades.

Question 27

Has the diversity of the Texas population advanced or inhibited the state's cultural and economic development and can we expect the same forces to act in the same ways going forward?

Question 28

What key factors are likely to advance and/or inhibit economic growth and development over the next several decades?

Question 29

Did Texas enter the Union before or after California and what historical events connected the two admissions?

Question 30

Describe the place of Reconstruction in Texas history.

Question 31

What climatic features best describe Texas East and West of the Balcones Escarpment?

Question 32

Describe the attraction of the Austin Colony to Anglo settlers.

Question 33

What role did the "Runaway Scrape" play in the Texas Revolution?

Question 34

Governor Sam Houston favored Texas's secession from the Union.

Question 35

Santa Anna was President of Mexico when Texas won its independence.

Question 36

The independent Republic of Texas prohibited slavery in its territory.

Question 37

Texas is less urbanized than the nation as a whole.

Question 38

Hispanics are expected to be a plurality of Texans by the 2030s.

Question 39

Texas was not as badly damaged by the Civil War as most southern states.

Question 40

The______
forms the boundary between Texas and Mexico.

Question 41

______commanded the Texas Army at the Battle of San Jacinto.

Question 42

Texas is said to have a______
political culture.

Question 43

The
______ is a geographical fault line that runs from Del Rio to San Antonio
and then North to Oklahoma.

Question 44

______is the largest city in Texas.

Question 45

The city most commonly designated the ethnic German heart of the Hill Country is
______

Question 46

The post-Civil War period of military occupation of the South is called______