TX HIST Unit 1 Chapter 1-5
While Texas was under Mexican law, 4,428 acres of land in Texas probably cost less than
$150.
By 1828, the empresario Stephen Austin had agreed to settle _________ families on his land.
1,200
In spite of the efforts in Mexican law and policy to discourage slavery, _______percent of the inhabitants of Texas were slaves.
10
Most settler families in Austin's colony received at least a sitio of land or ___________acres.
4,400
Who was Juan Bautista de las Casas?
A revolutionary who proclaimed himself to be the governor of Texas during the Mexican Revolution.
President Bustamante of Mexico changed the rules of immigration into Texas once again. The law of April 1830 contained all the following decrees EXCEPT:
All empresario contracts were suspended and settlers ordered to leave Texas.
What happened to the settlers who were forced to abandon Nacogdoches?
All of the above.
Why was Spain unable to establish trading networks on the northern frontier?
All of the above.
Why were the Spanish soldiers unable to pacify the Indians?
All of the above.
The Marqués de Rubí toured Spanish possessions from California to Louisiana. Which of the following did he recommend?
All the above.
General Manuel Mier y Terán was sent to survey eastern Texas and determine where forts should be placed. He was disturbed by all the following EXCEPT that the
Anglo-Americans were plotting the overthrow of Mexico.
While Mexico controlled the area of Texas, the population growth was highest among the
Anglo-Americans.
While the style of government changed frequently in Mexico, the first emperor was
Augustin I (Iturbide).
As Spanish rule ended in Texas, only three settlements remained. Which of these was not among them?
Austin
All the following are TRUE about daily life in Mexican Texas EXCEPT:
CHILDREN RECEIVED ONLY A FEW YEARS OF FORMAL EDUCATION X most families grew just enough food for themselves. X there were no improved ports for importing goods X there were no banks and little money.
The federalists won the argument over how Mexico should be governed with the Constitution of 1824. All of the following were factors in that document EXCEPT:
Clauses similar to the first ten amendments of the U. S. Constitution were incorporated.
The earliest Mexican revolutionaries of 1811 were led by
Father Hidalgo, a Roman Catholic priest
What happened to Napoleon's attempt to renew a French empire in America?
He decided instead to sell Louisiana to the United States.
Why was Stephen F. Austin concerned about the validity of his land grant?
It had been granted by Spain, not Mexico.
The forces of Bernardo Gutiérrez and Augustus Magee led a group of Anglos, Frenchmen, and Mexican revolutionaries into Texas where they occupied all the following EXCEPT:
Matamoros.
Spanish rule ended in Texas when
Mexican revolutionary forces in central Mexico won independence from Spain
What was the significance of the Fredonian Rebellion?
Mexico became increasingly suspicious of all Anglo-Americans.
Why did Mexico fear Anglo-Americans after the Fredonian Rebellion?
Mexico believed the Anglo-Americans intended to join Texas to the United States.
Stephen F. Austin inherited a contract to bring settlers to Texas. Before he could bring the first settlers in, his contract was threatened by which of the following events?
Mexico defeated Spain making Texas part of the new country, Mexico.
Austin arrived to establish his colony only to find that
Mexico had won her independence from Spain and his contract might be invalid.
In 1828, Mexican president Pegraza was deposed by Guerrero who was replaced by Bustamante. What was the significance of Bustamante's successful coup?
Mexico would become a military dictatorship.
Who received the first empresario contract to bring settlers into Texas?
Moses Austin
What happened to the leaders of the early Texas revolutionaries like de las Casas, Gutiérez, Magee, and their others?
Most were killed
Spain insisted the territory that the United States had purchased from France ended at the
Red River
Thomas Jefferson believed that the territory of Louisiana extended to which river?
Rio Grande
After the Marqués de Rubí recommended their removal, more than 500 settlers were forced to relocate from Nacogdoches to
San Antonio.
Many explorations were undertaken in the 1780s to open a trade route between San Antonio and
Santa Fe
All of the following were requirements for receiving land in Austin's colony EXCEPT:
Settlers must pay all duties on imports immediately after they occupied their lands.
The legislature of the combined state of Coahuila and Texas passed a law in 1825 governing settlement there. It included all the following EXCEPT:
Settlers were not permitted to bring slaves into the state.
In the Treaty of Paris of 1763, which ended the Seven Years' War in Europe, Louisiana territory was given to
Spain
Why was Stephen Austin the only person to receive a grant under the Imperial Colonization Law?
The law was repealed soon after Austin received his grant.
Why weren't General Manuel Mier y Terán's recommendations carried out immediately?
The presidency in Mexico changed hands three times in that same year.
Why did so many Anglo-Americans come to Texas in the 1820s and 1830s?
They came because of the availability of free or cheap land in Texas.
Why did the Marqués de Rubí recommend the abandonment of the East Texas settlements?
They were no longer needed as a barrier against French aggression.
In 1813, Joaquín de Arredondo and a force of 1,830 troops defeated the rebels in Texas. All the following punishments awaited the rebels EXCEPT:
They were sent to Mexico City for trial.
Mexican policies with regard to slavery in Texas changed frequently with the result that all the following were included in those policies EXCEPT:
Under the Constitution of 1824, all settlers were ordered to immediately free all their slaves.
When Benjamin Edwards and his men rode into Nacogdoches and declared the Republic of Fredonia
X Anglo-Americans and the resident Cherokee Indians refused to support them. all of the above.
The empresario Martín de León
X received a grant of land and founded the town of Guadalupe Victoria. all of the above.
What is an empresario?
a contractor/colonizing agent
Mexico's war of independence from Spain was finally ended by a successful alliance between
a criollo army officer loyal to Spain and the leader of the liberal revolutionaries
All of the following competed for power within the new country of Mexico, EXCEPT:
a group of the very poor, the pobres, who desired a pure democracy
Jean Lafitte set up a "republic" on Galveston Island in 1817. Who was he?
a pirate and slave smuggler
After his tour of East Texas, Terán proposed that Mexico should do all the following EXCEPT:
allow the Anglo settlers to govern themselves.
The Fredonian Rebellion began as
an argument over whether those who had occupied their lands for many years had to pay the new empresario for those lands.
Early filibusterers like those led by Philip Nolan during the early nineteenth century were
bands of armed men who traded with the Indians often for horses stolen from Spanish posts.
After the empire of Iturbide collapsed, the wealthy hacendados, the caudillos, and clergy advocated this form of government.
centralist with the power at the center
The Grito de Dolores, which began the Mexican Revolution, was a(n)
cry of protest calling for revolt against the Spanish government.
The National Colonization Law of August 18, 1824 decreed that
foreigners were not to settle within ten leagues of the coast or twenty leagues of the international border.
Benjamin Lundy spent years trying to obtain a grant of land in Texas to create a settlement for
free blacks.
The 1821 Plan de Iguala declared that the new government of Mexico would possess all the following EXCEPT:
freedom of religion.
Most of the Anglo-Americans moving into the area of Texas around 1800 were
immigrants from the American southern states
After Spain's three centuries of rule in Texas, the total population was
less than 5000 settlers
In 1820, the ruling council in Spain reversed its former decree and
opened all Spanish dominions to any foreigners who would accept the laws of the monarchy.
General James Wilkinson and General Simon Herrara agreed that the Spaniards should remain west of the Sabine and the Americans should remain east of the Arroyo Hondo. This agreement was called
the Neutral Ground Agreement.
After the Mexican Revolution, when Mexico claimed the area of Texas, its greatest fear about Texas was that
the Texans would revolt and join Texas to the United States.
As a result of the new Mexican Constitution of 1824
the two Spanish provinces of Texas and Coahuila became a single state within Mexico.
