Alamo - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

TEXES 7-12 Social Studies Content Exam (232) Quantitative Analysis - correct answer this is the study of society using numbers and statistics. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo - correct answer Pease treaty between the US and Mexico. The treaty called for the US to pay $15 million dollars, set the border at the Rio Grande and gave the US ownership of California, parts of New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming and Colorado. Over 90% of people in those areas chose to become US citizens. **The...

TExES 291 Social Studies Questions With Solutions Which of the following was the primary significance of the Battle of the Alamo during the Texas revolution? a) Santa Anna was captured there by the Texas army b) It galvanized Texas resistance to Mexican forces c) Valuable weapons and munitions were taken by the Texas army d) It was a crushing defeat for the Mexican army B Which of the following is the primary economic reason for the initial exploration of the Americas by Europeans? D...

"plain folk" - ANSWER_southern farmers that lived outside of the plantation belt in hilly ares unsuitable for cotton production; used family labor instead of slaves & grew food for themselves; poor white men "paternalism" - ANSWER_hierarchical agrarian society in which slaveholding gentlemen took personal responsibility for the physical and moral well-being of their dependents (woman,children, and slaves) "silent sabatoge" - ANSWER_most widespread expression of hostility to slavery w...

HIUS 221 Exam Questions With 100% Correct Answers The "Filibusters" - answerA private army of American volunteers, financed by Louisiana businessmen, who invaded Texas. Were reinforced by Tejano rebels against Spain, the force seized San Antonio, and its leaders proclaimed Texas an independent country. (Although the Spanish eventually crushed the invasion, the episode underscored how weak its hold was.) Stephen F. Austin () - answerson of Moses Austin, had to renegotiate with the new Me...

Edward Lloyd Correct Answer: Well-known man who owned first beverage shop, later sold tea; through ships n stuff; still around Lloyds of London Nicholas Barban Correct Answer: home builder that said if a home burned he would build it back for free; Great London fire 1666 - more damage than WW - he disappears 1st fire insurance company in the US Correct Answer: Philadelphia stared by Ben Franklin; Fire mark metallic emblem basically used his ownership of fire fighters if no then show l...

History 105 TAMU Final Questions and Answers 100% Pass Manifest Destiny A notion held by a nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent, from the Atlantic the Pacific. Overland Trails Westward trail route of wagon trains bearing settlers; collective experience; despite contradicting stories, Indian attacks were extremely rare & more helpful than harmful Oregon Trail, California Trail, Santa Fe Trail What are the different overland trails? California G...

HIUS 221 Exam Questions With 100% Correct Answers The "Filibusters" - answerA private army of American volunteers, financed by Louisiana businessmen, who invaded Texas. Were reinforced by Tejano rebels against Spain, the force seized San Antonio, and its leaders proclaimed Texas an independent country. (Although the Spanish eventually crushed the invasion, the episode underscored how weak its hold was.) Stephen F. Austin () - answerson of Moses Austin, had to renegotiate with the new Me...

Hist 105 Brooks Exam 3 With 100% Correct Answers 2024 "peculiar institution" - answerinstitution unique to southern society; Mason-Dixon Line became dividing line between slavery and freedom "plain folk" - answersouthern farmers that lived outside of the plantation belt in hilly ares unsuitable for cotton production; used family labor instead of slaves & grew food for themselves; poor white men "paternalism" - answerhierarchical agrarian society in which slaveholding gentlemen took ...

HIST 105 Bach Exam Q&A Redeemers - ANSWER A loose coalition of prewar Democrats, Confederate veterans, and Whigs who took over southern state governments in the 1870s, supposedly "redeeming" them from the corruption of Reconstruction. They shared a commitment to white supremacy and laissez-faire economics Vesey Conspiracy - ANSWER An unsuccessful 1822 plot to burn Charleston, South Carolina, and initiate a general slave revolt, led by a free African American, Denmark Vesey Undergr...

APUSH Amsco Chapter 12 Latest 2023 Already Passed Walker expedition William Walker, a southern adventurer, tried to take Baja California from Mexico in 1853; took Nicaragua to develop a proslavery empire but collapsed when he was killed by Honduran authorities Clayton-Bulwer treaty between U.S. and Great Britain agreeing that neither country would try to obtain exclusive rights to canal across Isthmus of Panama; Abrogated by U.S. in 1881 Wilmot Proviso Bill that would ban slavery in the territ...