Ch. 6 Review

Question 1

A filibuster was the term for a prisoner in a Mexican prison.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

The United States purchased the Louisiana Territory for $15 million.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Spain had little control of Pecan Point because the American settlers considered themselves part of Arkansas.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Antonio Martínez was unable to help the troops because they were loyal to France.

Answer 4

False

Question 5

Spain’s failure to colonize Texas throughout the 1700s was in part due to conflicts with the Apaches and
Comanches.

Answer 5

True

Question 6

Spanish Governor Ripperda wanted to keep the settlers safe but could not because he didn’t have the troops to do it.

Answer 6

True

Question 7

What is a republic?

Answer 7

Government where people have all the power.

Question 8

What is the El Camino Real and where did it go?

Answer 8

Royal road, connected all missions, led to Mexico.

Question 9

Explain the Adams-Onis Treaty.

Answer 9

• Spain gives Florida to us
• Sabine River becomes border
• red river becomes border

Question 10

What were the conditions Martínez described in San Antonio?

Answer 10

• falling apart

- needs men x supplies

Question 11

Who was sent to investigate the need for missions in New Spain?

Answer 11

Marques Derubi

Question 12

Why did the town of Bucareli failed to thrive?

Answer 12

It was never approved by either country’s congress.

Question 13

Who appointed Louis Michel Aury commissioner of Galveston?

Answer 13

Jose Manuel de Herrera

Question 14

What happened in Texas as a result of the victory of General Joaquín de Arredondo?

Answer 14

Declared themselves free (they weren’t) pushed allies away (committed atrocities)

Question 15

Who governed the settlers who lived in Ysleta?

Answer 15

Antonio de otermin

Question 16

Who was the leader of the East Texans who founded Nacogdoches?

Answer 16

Antonio Gil y’barbo

Question 17

Why was Spain’s effort to colonize Texas in the late 1700s was impeded?

Answer 17

• Comanche
• no money
• MX no a lot of open land

Question 18

Who were filibusters?

Answer 18

Mostly white Anglo Americans who fought illegally in TX.

Question 19

Who was the Texas adventurer who captured Nacogdoches in 1819 with 300 rebels?

Answer 19

James long

Question 20

What are all the ways Spain helped during the American Revolution?

Answer 20

• money
• supplies
• troops

Question 21

What was the largest settlement in Texas when Mexico became independent from Spain in 1821?

Answer 21

San Antonio

Question 22

What was the result of the Louisiana Purchase?

Answer 22

French kicked out of North America

Question 23

Why were there troubles within the Republican army?

Answer 23

Most identified as Americans not Texas

Question 24

How did the balance of power in the Americas change because of the Treaty of Paris of 1763?

Answer 24

U.S. controls 50%

M.X. Controls 50%

Question 25

What did Antonio Martinez claime he needed to defend Spain’s interest in Texas?

Answer 25

• troops
• money
• settlement

Question 26

Spanish cow handlers who made the first long cattle drives from South Texas to markets in Louisiana were
called ____________________.

Answer 26

Vaqueros

Question 27

One of the countries from which Governor Galvez of New Orleans recruited troops was
____________________.

Answer 27

Spain, Mexico, Cuba

Question 28

Because of the Treaty of 1783, Great Britain was granted trading rights on
______________________________.

Answer 28

Mississippi River

Question 29

Spanish officials suspected Phillip Nolan of being a ____________________.

Answer 29

Spy

Question 30

Government Ripperda refused to allow East Texans to return to their former homes. Instead, he allowed them
to settle along the banks of the ____________________.

Answer 30

Trinity River

Question 31

As a result of the Paris Peace Treaty, Spain controlled Louisiana. This, in turn, shifted the boundary between
Spanish and foreign territory from the Sabine River to _________________________.

Answer 31

Mississippi River

Question 32

rebel leader sent to U.S. for money and supplies

Answer 32

Bernardo Gutiérrez de Lara

Question 33

replaced Magee as commander of Republican army

Answer 33

Samuel Kemper

Question 34

adapted Spanish customs to frontier conditions

Answer 34

Tejano culture

Question 35

fought for Texas’s independence

Answer 35

Republican Army of the north

Question 36

challenged Mexican people to recover land stolen from them 300 years earlier

Answer 36

Father Hidalgo’s grito

Question 37

Cowboy

Answer 37

Vaquero

Question 38

Harassed settlers at bucareli

Answer 38

Comanches

Question 39

Last Spanish governor of Texas

Answer 39

Antonio Martinez