Week 24 - Let's Review

How did most early Texas settlers make a living?

• farming and ranching

• construction workers

• as soldiers

• working in factories

Answer this question after reading the article "Looking Back: Texas Independence to Reconstruction."

One reason that William B. Travis became the leader of all the Texan forces at the Battle of the Alamo is because ______.

• General Santa Anna had set up camp outside the Alamo

• there were 3,000 Mexican soldiers and less than 200 Texan defenders

• Susanna Dickinson was inside the Alamo walls

• James Bowie became ill

Answer this question after reading the article "Looking Back: Texas Independence to Reconstruction."

What problem did Sam Houston and his committee face while writing the Texas Declaration of Independence in March of 1836?

• Santa Anna had returned to Mexico to get more soldiers

• Most people in Texas did not want independence.

• Santa Anna and his soldiers were closing in on them.

• Sam Houston thought the Alamo defenders could defeat Santa Anna's army.

Answer this question after reading the article "Texas: Republic to 28th State."

What was an important outcome of the Treaties of Velasco?

• Santa Anna was put in a Mexican prison for the rest of his life.

• Texans no longer had to worry about being attacked by Mexican soldiers.

• The Rio Grande River was established as the southern border of Texas.

• All Texans approved of the terms and conditions in the treaties.

Answer this question after reading the article "Texas: Republic to 28th State."

Which sentence helps the reader understand the meaning of the word annexation?

• Texas was now the 28th state in the United States of America.

• Slaves were forced to farm large Texas plantations.

• Americans were not sure if the annexation of Texas was a good idea.

• Texas still had very little money.

Answer this question after reading the article "Texas: Republic to 28th State."

Who was the first man elected vice president of the Republic of Texas?

• Sam Houston

• Mirabeau B. Lamar

• Stephen F. Austin

• Gregorio Esparza

Answer this question after reading the articles about History, Culture and Economics.

What caused many families to leave their homes in Texas quickly during the Runaway Scrape?

• They wanted to return to their families living in the United States.

• The American Indians in Texas had joined the Mexican army to fight Texas settlers.

• Sam Houston warned them that the Mexican army was raiding settlements.

• They had no food or water so they headed to the Colorado River.

Answer this question after reading the articles about History, Culture and Economics.

Which detail from the article "American Indians Depended on the Buffalo" supports the author's statement that "The buffalo neared extinction, which caused the way of life for the Plains Indians to change forever."

• American Indians had lived and hunted on the same land for many years.

• Large herds grazed on land that settlers wanted for farming, ranching, and railroads.

• Some people wanted to move American Indians to reservations.

• American buffalo hunters killed thousands of animals for their hides and left the meat to rot.