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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter XII, what is the largest city in Texas?
(a) Austin.
(b) Dallas.
(c) San Antonio.
(d) Houston.

2. Yancey leads a movement to make ________________ a slave state.
(a) Texas.
(b) Kansas.
(c) Nebraska.
(d) Montana.

3. Black men in the army unit are known as __________________.
(a) Darkies.
(b) Midnight Soldiers.
(c) Nigger Soldiers.
(d) Buffalo Soldiers.

4. Under President ___________________, a new Peace Policy regarding the Indians was implemented in 1869.
(a) Grant.
(b) Lincoln.
(c) Harding.
(d) Coolidge.

5. Texans Cactus John Garner and ____________________ both become Speakers of the House.
(a) Sam Rayburn.
(b) Harley Hatton.
(c) Lyndon Johnson.
(d) George Bush.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Earnshaw Rust marry?

2. Why can Benito not inherit the ten thousand acres owned by the Garza women?

3. The colonel assigned to Fort Sam Garner and his men rescue _________________ who had been captured by the Indians.

4. Who is Persifier's wife?

5. Whom does Ransom Rusk marry in Larkin?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Laurel Cobb have to face trial within the church?

2. What is Benito Garza's opinion of the Mexican War and why would he feel this way?

3. What would account for the brutality of the Texans during the Mexican War?

4. How do Earnshaw and Emma go about building a town?

5. Why do the Cobb women not tell their slaves about the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863?

6. Why do new Texas residents like Persifier and Somerset Cobb decide to side with the South in the Civil War?

7. How did the U.S. troops finally get the Indians to move to the reservation?

8. What years did the Mexican War take place and why is there such lingering hatred between the Texans and Mexicans at this time?

9. When does the Ku Klux Klan appear in Larkin County and which groups of people are most affected by their presence?

10. How did the Indians feel about President Polk's Peace Policy?

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