Chapter Two Self-test
Take the following self-test as many times as needed to master chapter content. Included page numbers will enable you to check your responses.
1) The following were reasons why Texas was NOT an “immigrational ‘pull’” EXCEPT
a) The regional government imposed oppressive taxation on a place where little was possible in the way of achieving a livelihood, whether in landholding or through a modest business prospect.
b) The region lacked an infrastructure.
c) The region was dominated by hostile Indian tribes that often threatened the lives of settlers.
d) Fruitless searches had revealed no great deposits of precious metals.
Hint: pages 27–28
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 36 and 48
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: page 35
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 to sell it.
c) the woman’s right to manage her own financial affairs.
d) a widow’s legal responsibility to pay her deceased husband’s debts.
Hint: pages 51–52
5) All of the following shows the Spanish legacy EXCEPT:
a) egalitarianism.
b) water laws.
c) Spanish loan words.
d) geographical nomenclature in place names and rivers.
Hint: page 51
6) Carlos III, the new Bourbon king, sent ______to investigate northern frontier and recommend reform policy.
a) Antonio Gil Ybarbo
b) José de Gálvez
c) Marqués de Rubí
d) Teodoro de Croix
Hint: pages 43–46
7) The Bourbon Reforms of the Enlightenment produced:
a) loyalty to the Crown in New Spain.
b) resentmenttoward the Mexican government.
c) resentment and discontent toward the mother country in New Spain.
d) resentment among the peninsulares in New Spain.
Hint: pages 43–45
8) Sometimes hailed as “Texas’s first cattle queen,” ______enlarged the South Texas ranch she inherited from her husband.
a) Ana María del Carmen Calvillo.
b) María Hinojosa de Ballí.
c) Patricia de la Garza de León.
d) Juana Navarro Alsbury.
Hint: page 38
9) Ana Maríadel 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 38
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 into the mid-18th century.
d) a fresh start, offered to common folks restrained by ethnic prejudice.
Hint: pages 27–28