6th Six Weeks Review Sheet with

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1. What inventions enabled settlers to move west to the Great Plains?
Railroads, Windmills, steel Plow, barbed wire
2. Which branch of the state and national governments are divided in to 2
houses?
The Legislature
3. What is popular sovereignty?
All political power belongs to the people.
4. When and where did the Spindle Top Oil Field begin?
Beaumont, 1901
5. What was the importance of the Battle of San Jacinto?
It ended the Texas Revolution
6. How did cattle get into Texas?
The Spanish imported them
7. Why did Spain have trouble controlling Texas?
Too few settlers
8. Where did Texas get its name?
The Caddo Indian word for friend
9. What were the causes of the Mexican American War?
Border disputes, annexation: Both the United States and Mexico
claimed Texas
10.What years was the Civil War fought?
1861 - 1865
11.Give 3 reasons the Alamo was lost in the Texas Revolution.
A. it was only made to protect from Indians. B. the Texans did not have
reinforcements. C. Texans were outnumbered
12.Why the cattle did drives from Texas end?
Railroads came to Texas so cattle could be shipped without driving
them north
13.Who created the Texas Rangers and for what purpose?
Stephen F. Austin to protect settlers from hostile Native Americans
14.Immediately after San Jacinto what did Santa Anna do?
He ran away and hid
15.What did the first Spanish hope to do with the Natives of Texas?
Convert them to Christianity
16.When the French came into Texas what was Spains reaction?
1685 Build more missions and forts
17.What laws were passed because of barbed wire?
Fencing laws were passed making cutting fences illegal
18.In what way did the Compromise of 1850 help Texas?
Texas received money to pay off debts.

19.What kind of government did Texas have when it was an independent

country?
Republic
20.What happened to the Texas population after 1900?
Fewer people moved to the coast and more moved farther inland
(Galveston Hurricane)
21.What countries make up Latin America?
Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Peru, Venezuela, Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala,
Cuba, Bolivia, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Paraguay plus others
22.Be able to identify the 4 hemispheres.
Northern, Southern, Western and Eastern

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23Who served as a governor of

Tennessee and Texas, a Texas representative in the U.S. Senate and was the
first president of the Republic of Texas?
Sam Houston
24.Why did the first settlers come to Texas?
Cheap land
25.Who was the last leader of the Comanche?
Quanah Parker