Reasons to Revolution

What was Mier y Teran doing in Texas?

• Leading an Army against the settlers
• Collecting taxes from the settlers
• Inspecting Texas settlements for Santa Anna
• He was on vacation

What was one of the reasons Mexico put into place the Law of April 6, 1830?

• To make slavery legal in Texas
• To stop U.S. immigration into Texas
• To help Texas set up its own government
• To make Catholicism optional

The Mier y Teran Report showed the ratio of Anglo settlers to Mexican settlers was

• 2 : 1
• 5 : 1
• 10 : 1
• 4 : 1

What physical feature is most important when starting a colony?

• Mountains
• Lake
• River
• Valley

Santa claimed to be a ___________ but he was a ____________

• Texan / Mexican
• Anglo / Tejano
• President / Dictator
• Nationalist / Centralist

Why was the settlement of Texas so appealing to Anglos (Americans)?

• Cheap land and a dissimilar Constitution

• No slavery and Cheap Slavery

• Cheap land and a similar Constitution

• Roman Catholicism and No Slavery

What did Hayden Edwards do that upset the Mexican government?

• Stormed a Mexican fort

• Created an independent state

• Killed Mexican officials

• Wrote a constitution that deemed Texas an independent state

Select the three primary reasons that the Mier Y Teran report said about Texans that the Mexican government should worry about?

• They had slavery

• Spoke English

• Anglos (Americans) outnumbered Mexicans

• They were not Roman Catholic

What were the two main issues that upset Texians about the Laws of April 6, 1830?

• New taxes were imposed on Texians

• Encouraged more immigration to Texas from the United States

• Outlawed slavery

• Outlawed American immigration, but allowed Europeans and Mexicans to settle in Texas

What was the main reason for the Turtle Bayou Resolutions?

• Mexican government enforcing that slavery was against the law

• Laws of April 6, 1830

• The Mexican government being a Federal government

• Santa Anna becoming a dictator