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Question 1

Why did Mexico invite Americans to come to Texas?

Answer 1

issues with Natives. Spanish-speaking Mexicans usually had settlements in the southern part of Texas and refused to move up north where mainly Natives lived.

Question 2

What were the 3 colonization laws that Mexico introduced?

Answer 2

• offer of cheap land
• 10 year exemption from paying taxes
• become citizens, abide by Mexican law, and convert to Roman Catholicism

Question 3

This person was the first American to set up a settlement in Texas.

Answer 3

Stephen F. Austin

Question 4

These were agents or contractors that were given large land grants by Mexico.

Answer 4

empresarios

Question 5

What did the National Colonization Act state?

Answer 5

• Mexico give 26 empresarios large amounts of land
• empresarios fill land with certain number of settlers
• empresarios ensure settlers follow Mexican laws and religion.

Question 6

What was the first American settlement in Texas?

Answer 6

Washington-on-the-Brazos

Question 7

How did Americans respond to first settling in Texas?

Answer 7

They agreed to Mexican citizenship at first, but didn’t adopt to customs or consider Mexico their country.

Question 8

After Haden and Benjamin Edward first discussed independence, what did Mexico do?

Answer 8

• close borders to Americans
• banned importation of slaves
• taxed goods imported from US to discourage trade

Question 9

What did Americans ask of Mexico in the two’s first convention in 1832?

Answer 9

to reopen borders to immigrants and decrease taxes

Question 10

What did Americans demand from Mexico in the two’s second convention in 1833?

Answer 10

• separation of Texas and creating new Mexican state
• create a constitution for new state
  They also sent Stephen F. Austin to negotiate, but it failed.

Question 11

Why was Stephen F. Austin arrested?

Answer 11

treason

Question 12

What did Santa Anna do that ensured the Americans would fight for their independence?

Answer 12

He, a democratic president, declared himself dictator. America no like dictatorship.

Question 13

What was the Mexican Army like?

Answer 13

• politically instable, which led to lack of strong leadership
• little training
• lack of support

Question 14

What was the early Texas Army like?

Answer 14

• few men had military training
• nobody wanting to emerge as a leader (until Sam Houston took command)

Question 15

What happened at the Alamo?

Answer 15

The Alamo was an old abandoned mission where Colonel William B. Travis and his force held out for 13 days before being taken down by Mexican forces.

Question 16

Why was the Alamo significant?

Answer 16

Sam Houston was given nearly 2 more weeks to develop his army, and it served as a rallying cry for the remainder of the war (Remember the Alamo)

Question 17

What happened at Goliad?

Answer 17

The Texan Army surrendered the battle hoping that the Mexicans would just kick them out of Texas. However, Santa Anna demanded them all (~300 men) to be executed by firing squad.

Question 18

What happened at the Battle of San Jacinto?

Answer 18

Santa Anna didn’t see Houston as a threat, so he allowed his army to rest in the afternoon thinking that he wouldn’t attack until the next day. However, Houston launched a surprise attack that afternoon, and swiftly won due to Santa Anna’s lack of preparedness.

Question 19

What was the name of Texas as an independent country?

Answer 19

The Republic of Texas

Question 20

Who was the first president of Texas?

Answer 20

Sam Houston

Question 21

Why wasn’t Texas immediately annexed into the U.S.?

Answer 21

They had worry about admitting Texas as a slave state.