Alamo Westward Expansion Articles

During the 1820s, many Americans were moving to __

• New Mexico

• Texas

• Boston

• Canada

​ (a)   was written on doors of homes and barns, which meant ​ (b)   .

• GTT
• Gone to Texas
• BTT
• Boat to Texas
• ATT
• America to Texas

People were going to ​ (a)   for ​ (b)   and ​ (c)  

• Texas
• cheap land
• freedom of the frontier.
• Oklahoma
• Chicago
• cheap food
• cheap animals
• freedom from the government
• freedom of religion

The new Mexican president named (a)   wanted to stop Americans from coming into Texas.

​ (a)   was an American with a dream of starting a western community.

• Stephen Austin
• Benjamin Franklin
• Thomas Jefferson
• Madison
• George Washington

Who was made commander of the Texan army?

• Stephen Austin

• George Washington

• Abraham Lincoln

• Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna

​ (a)   and ​ (b)   were soldiers who fought with Stephen Austin.

• Jim Bowie
• James Fannin
• George Washington
• Abraham Lincoln
• Thomas Jefferson
• Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna

What happened in San Antonio?

• The Mexicans surrendered because they had so many causalities and were outnumbered.

• The Mexicans won because they had few causalities and the Americans were outnumbered.

• There ws no clear winner.

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Santa Anna sent an army of ​ (a)   Mexican soldiers to crush the Texan army.

• 6,000
• 1,000
• 200
• 2,000
• 600
• 100

Why did General Sam Houston order Jim Bowie to demolish the Alamo?

• He believed that the Alamo was falling apart and not worth defending.

• He believed that there was no need to hold a city so far from the settlements in the east.

• He didn't think that they would win.

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