Texas Revolution 4th Grade Studies Weekly 14

Match the following

• Military Leader who died at the Alamo

• James Bowie

• Congressional representative for Tennessee

• David Crockett

• Mexican Citizen who helped resistance efforts in Gonzales

• Placidio Benavides

Match the following

• Provided firsthand account at the Alamo because he and his mother survived Alamo.

• Jose Francisco Ruiz

• Was a messenger at the Alamo and fought in the Battle of San Jacinto

• Susanna Dickinson

• She delivered a message from Santa Anna to Sam Houston

• Enrique Esparza

• Supported Texas during the Texas Revolution

• Juan N. Seguin

Match the following

• known as father of Texas Education

• Mirabeau Lamar

• Last President of the Republic of Texas

• Anson Jones

• Signed of the Texas Declaration of Independence

• Jose Antonio Navarro

• first and third president of the Republic of Texas

• Sam Houston

What was the original capital of Texas?

• Houston

• Waco

• Austin

• Columbia

What was the name of Austin before they named it after Stephen F. Austin?

• Waterloo

• Houston

• Columbia

• It was always Austin

Placido Benavides is known as the Paul Revere of Texas because he got on a horse a delivered a message.... What did Paul Revere say?

• Texas is coming

• Come and Take it

• Remember the Alamo

• The British are coming

Why did we not leave the Capital in Houston?

• Because they liked Austin

• Houston was too hard to get to and Austin was more centrally located

• Because Waterloo was a cool name

Who was the first VICE president of Texas?

• Mirabeu Lamar

• Stephen F. Austin

• Sam Houston

Who is our current capital named after?

• Sam Houston

• Stephen F. Austin

• Mirabeau Lamar

• Anson Jones

How many presidents of Texas were there?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4