1) Why was Texas anything but an “immigrational ‘pull’”?

a) The regional government imposed oppressive taxation on what little was possible in achieving a livelihood in landholding or a modest business prospect.
b) The region lacked an infrastructure.
c) The region was dominated by hostile Indian tribes that threatened the lives of settlers.
d) Fruitless searches had revealed no great deposits of precious metals.

Hint: pages 28-29

2) Peninsulares were:

a) people of mixed blood and a darker skin hue.
b) American-born Spaniards who ordinarily inherited their European-born parents’ possessions.
c) European-born Spaniards who dominated the higher political offices in New Spain.
d) European-born Spaniards who dominated the higher political offices in Texas.

Hint: pages 38 and 50

3) The text defines mestizaje by describing it as:

a) the degree to which former inmates intermixed with the indigenous population.
b) demographic growth as seen in the indigenous population.
c) the degrees of wealth that separated the various social classes in Texas.
d) the racial and cultural union involving Europeans, Indians and some Africans.

Hint: pages 37 - 38

4) Spanish precedent in the form of Iberian laws lingered and included all of the following EXCEPT:

a) joint ownership of property accumulated while married.
b) protection of the family’s holdings by requiring the wife’s consent.
c) the woman’s right to manage her own financial affairs.
d) vulnerability in the area of debts left by the husband that the widow would become legally responsible in paying off.

Hint: pages 39 - 40, 53

5) All of the following shows the Spanish legacy EXCEPT:

a) egalitarianism.
b) water laws.
c) Spanish loan words.
d) geographical nomenclature.

Hint: pages 53

6) Carlos III, the new Bourbon king, sent this individual to investigate northern frontier and recommend reform policy.

a) Antonio Gil Ybarbo
b) Jose de Galvez
c) Marquez de Rubi
d) Teodoro de Croix

Hint: pages 44 - 45

7) The Bourbon Reforms of the Enlightenment produced:

a) loyalty to the Crown in New Spain.
b) resentment toward the Mexican government.
c) resentment and discontent toward the mother country in New Spain.
d) resentment among the peninsulares in New Spain.

Hint: pages 44 - 45

8) Sometimes hailed as “Texas’s first cattle queen,” ________ enlarged the South Texas ranch she inherited from her husband.

a) Ana Maria del Carmen Calvillo.
b) Maria Hinojosa de Balli.
c) Patricia de la Garza de Leon.
d) Juana Navarro Alsbury.

Hint: page 40

9) Ana Maria del Carmen Calvillo suffered all of the following setbacks EXCEPT:

a) the death of her children
b) a failed marriage
c) the untimely death of her father
d) divorce

Hint: page 40

10) All of the following accounted for the development of Spanish settlements in Texas EXCEPT:

a) the king’s plan to solidify control of New Spain’s Far North to act as buffers against possible French and British incursions into the province.
b) an outlet for escape—unemployment, natural disasters, or ecological hardships (and even escape from authorities) in another province of New Spain.
c) the Crown’s concerted effort to recruit and dispatch hundreds of new settler that extended in the mid-18th century.
d) a fresh start, offered to common folks restrained by ethnic prejudice.

Hint: page 28 - 29