Texas history 1 & 2

What doubled the size of the US?

• Mexico
• Canada Purchase
• Louisiana Purchase
• California Purchase

_______________ a government in which people elect their leaders and power is shared between federal and state government.

• barter

• monarchy

• republic

• jacales

This man was a key figure in beginning the revolution - he gave a famous speech called "El Grito del Dolores" to encourage people to fight for freedom.

• Agustin de Iturbide

• Father Miguel Hidalgo

• James Long

• Augustus Magee

how did the Tejano population felt after been told they needed to move out from East Texas?

• they were happy to move to new land

• they were unhappy to leave their homes

• they didn't care at all

• the protested

Who completed most of the field work on plantations?

• Tejanos

• Settlers

• Slaves

• Europeans

Requirements to come and settle in Austin's colony were

• Americans, Judaism

• Mexican , Catholicism

• donate money, pay $20 an acre

• French, Judaism

What technological invention resulted in the exponential growth of slavery in the South?

• mining

• telegraph

• steel plow

• cotton gin

The 1st American empresario or land agent who got permission from the Spanish government to bring Americans to Mexican Texas but died before he could implement his plan

• Martin de Leon

• Green de Witt

• Stephen F. Austin

• Moses Austin

What industry grew in Texas after Mexico won its independence?

• logging

• shipping

• ranching

• minining

__________________ is a military blockade of a city or fort

• Tejano

• filibuster

• militia

• siege