Mexican Borders

The population in northern Mexico was ______, and difficult to defend against the growing number of white Americans expanding there.

• Manifest Destiny

• sparse

• thriving

• Tejanos

By the 1830s, the white settlers had made a _____ plantation economy in Mexico.

• Mexican

• sparse

• thriving

• Tejanos

In the 1830s, white settlers outnumbered the Spanish-speaking population (_____) 35,000 to 8,000

• Old 300

• sparse

• Tejanos

• thriving

The _____ was an old abandoned mission fort where an American garrison was destroyed by Santa Anna in 1835.

• Sam Houston

• Davy Crockett

• Goliad

• Alamo

_____ was the leader of the Mexican army who fought against the white settlers in the Texas Revolution

• Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna

• Sam Houston

• Davy Crockett

• Steve Austin

_____ was a famous frontiersman who fought and died at the Alamo.

• Davy Crockett

• Sam Houston

• Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna

• Stephen Austin

_____ defeated Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto.

• Stephen Austin

• Sam Houston

• Jim Bowie

• Davy Crockett

Following the victory at San Jacinto, Houston declared Texas the _____.

• Louisiana Territory

• Lone Star Republic

• California Republic

• New Mexico

John C. Fremont encouraged people to come to new lands on the _____ Trail.

• California

• Oregon

• Louisiana

• Tears

In _____, the US recognized Texas as independent from Mexico.

• 1845

• 1837

• 1835

• 1836