Chapter 8 Test Review 1

Moses Austin was the first person to gain permission from Spain to bring Mexican American settlers into Texas.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

He brought ANGLO AMERICANS.

Despite the difficulties it faced, the colony founded by Green DeWitt is considered one of the most successful Anglo American colonies in Texas.

• True

• False

Most of the settlers who came to Austin’s first colony were farmers.

• True

• False

The state legislature in Saltillo passed a colonization law in 1825 to help increase the state’s population.

• True

• False

Moses Austin’s plan to bring 300 Anglo American families to Texas is referred to as the “Texas Venture.

• True

• False

among the first people to settle in a region

• pioneers

• Centralists

• depression

• Federalists

political party that believed the central government should be stronger than the states

• Federalists

• pioneers

• Centralists

• militia

Answer explanation

CENTRALists believed in a stronger central, or national, government.

time of economic downturn

• Federalists

• Centralists

• militia

• depression

Answer explanation

"Downturn" is to decrease or reduce.

political party that believed in a weaker central government which shares power with the states

• Federalists

• militia

• depression

• Centralists

Answer explanation

force made up of armed citizens

• Federalists

• militia

• pioneers

• Centralists

Answer explanation

They were not formally trained, just regular citizens fighting like an army.