Deck 3: Demographic Change and Its Implications

Question 1

What was the name of the 1896 Supreme Court case that allowed segregation of the races on trains and in other public places?

A) Dred Scott v. Sandford
B) Plessy v. Ferguson
C) King v. Johnson
D) U.S. v. Texas

Answer 1

B

Question 2

The Texas State Data Center projects that Texas will be what percent Hispanic in 2050?

A) 23 percent
B) 33 percent
C) 43 percent
D) 53 percent

Answer 2

C

Question 3

In what year did Moses Austin die and Stephen F. Austin arrive in Texas to take over his father's colonization operation?

A) 1821
B) 1836
C) 1845
D) 1861

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Which great Indian tribe in Texas controlled the western plains into the 1870s?

A) Apache
B) Comanche
C) Arapaho
D) Caddo

Question 5

The Mexican Revolution occurred from:

A) 1861-1865
B) 1890-1900
C) 1910-1920
D) 1940-1951

Question 6

Who was the famous "Yellow Rose of Texas?"

A) Jane Long
B) Miriam Ferguson
C) Ann Richards
D) Emily Morgan

Question 7

What percent of Texas Anglos over age 25 lack a high school diploma?

A) 56 percent
B) 15 percent
C) 256 percent
D) 35 percent

Question 8

Texas Hispanics make about what percent of what Texas Anglos make?

A) 454 percent
B) 57 percent
C) 70 percent
D) 85 percent

Question 9

By 1840, the largest racial or ethnic groups in Texas was:

A) Indians
B) Tejanos
C) Anglos
D) blacks

Question 10

In 1900, Hispanics made up about what percent of the Texas population?

A) 40 percent
B) 25 percent
C) 15 percent
D) 5 percent

Question 11

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) was an 8-1 Supreme Court decision permitting segregation of the races on trains and in other public places. Who was the dissenting justice?

A) John Marshall
B) Earl Warren
C) John Roberts
D) John Marshall Harlan

Question 12

The Texas State Data Center projects that Anglos will be what percent of the Texas population in 2050?

A) 289 percent
B) 389 percent
C) 489 percent
D) 589 percent

Question 13

Philip Nolan was one of the first American traders to die in Texas. What caused his 1801 death?

A) killed breaking mustangs
B) shot by Mexican troops
C) tortured by Indians
D) died of smallpox

Question 14

The filibusterer James Long invaded Texas with 300 men in 1819. He sought to join forces with which Galveston-based pirate?

A) Blackbeard
B) Montcalm Doucet
C) Jean Lafitte
D) Sabine Doublet

Question 15

What percent of Anglo heads of households owned slaves in 1860 as the Civil War approached?

A) 7 percent
B) 27 percent
C) 47 percent
D) 67 percent

Question 16

The large tribe of agricultural Indians that lived in Northeast Texas and adjacent parts of Arkansas and Louisiana were the:

A) Apache
B) Comanche
C) Arapaho
D) Caddo

Question 17

Which early Texas leader was unusually sensitive to the ambiguous place of Indians and Tejanos in Texas after independence?
A) Stephen F. Austin

A) Sam Houston
C) Mirabeau B. Lamar
D) John Baylor

Question 18

Who was the Tejano borderlands legend of the 1850s through the 1870s? He was a bandit in Texas but a Mexican general and governor in the 1860s and 1870s.

A) Juan Cortina
B) Pancho Villa
C) Lorenzo de Zavala
D) Roberto Kleberg

Question 19

Who wrote the Pulitzer prize-winning book, The Warmth of Other Suns?

A) Numan Bartley
B) Miriam Ferguson
C) Isabel Wilkerson
D) Gavin Wright

Question 20

All but which one of the following is a majority-minority state?

A) California
B) New Mexico
C) Texas
D) Florida

Question 21

What proportion of Hispanic workerss in Texas , citizens and not, age 25 and over lack a high school diploma?

A) 20 percent
B) 324 percent
C) 45 percent
D) 65 percent

Question 22

The Texas State Demographers office estimates that what proportion of population growth in Texas between 2010 and 2050 will be accounted for by Anglos?

A) 10 percent
B) 1520 percent
C) 30 percent
D) 3540 percent

Question 23

What proportion of Texas Hispanics are native-born U.S. citizens?

A) one-quarter
B) one-half
C) two-thirds
D) three-quarters

Question 24

Which population group in Texas is expected to grow fastest between now and 2050?

A) Anglo
B) Asian
C) Black
D) Hispanic

Question 25

In 1870, blacks made up what share of the Texas population?

A) 10 percent
B) 20 percent
C) 30 percent
D) 40 percent

Question 26

Texas has undergone large demographic changes in recent decades and will in future decades. What difference does this make and what issues might it raise for us going forward?

Question 27

In 1870, blacks were about 30 percent of Texans and Hispanics about 5 percent. By 1940, Hispanics displaced blacks as the largest Texas minority. What social, political, and economic forces produced these changes?

Question 28

If you were asked for policy advice on what might be done to close the social and economic gaps between Anglos and Hispanics, what policy area would you concentrate on first and why?

Question 29

Anglo adventurers in Texas prior to its independence from Mexico were called filibusterers. What were they up to and why did they think they could get away with their schemes?

Question 30

Did slave-owners in Texas in 1860 hold more sway or less sway than their numbers in the population might suggest? Buttress your answer with appropriate evidence.

Question 31

Indian numbers declined quickly after first contact with Europeans. What factors explain these declines?

Question 32

Both California and Texas have Hispanic populations of about 40 percent. How have the two states differed in their policies toward Hispanics, legal and illegal?

Question 33

In thinking about the implications of demographic change in Texas, why are the different levels of education and income by race and ethnicity important?

Question 34

Anglo adventurers seeking their fortune in Texas prior to its independence from Mexico were called fusiliers.

Question 35

One of the first Europeans in Texas was the shipwrecked Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca.

Question 36

John Baylor was killed while trying to lead Texas Indians to safety in the Oklahoma Indian Territory.

Question 37

Hispanics Texans earn less than Hispanics working in most other states.

Question 38

The population of Texas is expected to double between 2010 and 2050.

Question 39

The 19^th century French demographer who said "demography is destiny" was _______

Question 40

Anglo adventurers seeking their fortunes in Texas prior to its independence from Mexico were called _______

Question 41

_______was a Tejano leader who served in the Texas fight for independence and as Mayor of San Antonio before being forced to flee into Mexico.

Question 42

By 2050, Hispanics are projected to be_______ percent of the Texas population.

Question 43

The author of The Warmth of Other Suns was_______

Question 44

William B. Travis's slave, captured at the Alamo, was named _______

Question 45

The number of persons migrating to Texas minus the number migrating from Texas is referred to as _______