Ch. 4 - Texas Revolution

Which of the following was not a Texas victory during the Revolution?

*Correct: Coleto Creek; San Antonio; Gonzales; San Jacinto.

The delegates at the Texian Convention of 1836, which took place while the siege of the Alamo was underway:

Declared the independence of Texas from Mexico

Lorenzo de Zavala supported Santa Anna during the Texas Revolution

False

The Battle of Coleto Creek was a victory for the Texas rebel forces.

False

James Fannin commanded Texas rebels at the Alamo.

False- Gonzales and Alamo

Ben Milam

Led Texas forces at the Battle of San Antonio

___________________ was a Mexican general who was Santa Anna's brother-in-law and who surrendered to Texas rebel forces at San Antonio in December 1835.

Martín Perfecto de Cós

José Urrea was a ______________________ during the Texas Revolution.

Mexican General

José Urrea

Mexican commander at the Battle of Coleto Creek

Martín Perfecto de Cos

Mexican commander at the Battle of San Antonio

Domingo de Ugartechea

Mexican commander in San Antonio who order the retrieval of the Gonzales cannon

Antonio López de Santa Anna

Mexican commander who attacked the Alamo

The Goliad Massacre was:

Performed after the surrender of Colonel James Fannin's men at the Battle of Coleto Creek

James Bowie

Relinquished command at the Alamo to Travis

Which of the following is true about the Battle of San Jacinto?

Sam Houston's force was puny (less than a hundred men) by the time of the battle; *Correct: Santa Anna was captured the day after the battle; before the battle, Santa Anna was reinforced by the remainder of his huge army in Texas; most of Santa Anna's force at the battle consisted of wellrested, battlehardened veterans; though Sam Houston's men won the battle, Houston's forces suffered as many casualties as Santa Anna's

Why did fighting break out between Mexican troops and the citizens of Gonzales, Texas and their supporters in the fall of 1835?

The citizens were resisting efforts to take back a cannon that the Mexican army had loaned to them.

David Burnet was named the interim (temporary) president of the Republic of Texas during the Texas Revolution after independence was declared from Mexico.

True

El Camino Real was the main road linking San Antonio to Eastern Texas

True

More Texans died in the Goliad Massacre than at the Alamo

True

One of Santa Anna's biggest blunders was to split his forces in April 1836 after the fall of the Alamo.

True

The Battle of San Jacinto was fought near presentday Houston.

True

The Runaway Scrape refers to the flight of civilians out of Texas as Santa Anna's army entered Texas.

True

The end of the Texas Revolution came with the signing of the Treaties of Velasco.

True

Sam Houston

Victorious commander at the Battle of San Jacinto

Stephen Austin

Went to the U.S. to seek support for the Texas Revolution

_______________ was in command of the Alamo at the time it fell to Santa Anna's army.

William Barret Travis

Of the following individuals, who was not inside the Alamo when it fell to Santa Anna's army?

William Barret Travis; *Correct: James C. Neill; Susanna Dickinson; David Crockett; James Bowie.