Test Corrections Bundle 2

First Most Missed Question: Which of the following statements best completes the chart below?

​ (a)  

• Land Grants
• Religious Freedom
• Protect French Colonies
• Trade with Natives

Answer explanation

The Anglos came because they wanted to run away from debt and start a new life. They already HAD religious freedom in the United States, so that's not the reason they settled in Texas.

2nd Most Missed Question: How did Martín De León contribute to the Mexican settlement of Texas?

• He negotiated with nearby tribes to stop Indian attacks on Mexican settlements in Texas.

• He was the first empresario to receive permission from government authorities to bring Anglo-American settlers to Texas.

• As an empresario, he established a colony in Texas that was mainly occupied by Spanish-speaking Mexicans.

• He insisted that American settlers in Texas learn Spanish, convert to Catholicism, and abolish slavery.

Answer explanation

Moses Austin was the first empressario to receive permission to settle ANGLO-AMERICAN families in Texas, although his son Stephen F. Austin was the first one to actually do it. Martin de Leon was a Mexican empressario, so he wouldn't have settled Anglo families. He was known for settling Mexican families near the Guadalupe River.

3rd Most Missed Question: Which part of the Mexican Federal Constitution of 1824 guaranteed a representative form of government?

• The Mexican Nation is forever free and independent of the Spanish government, and of every other power.

• Its territory consists of the former Viceroyalty of New Spain…

• The religion of the Mexican nation shall perpetually [always] remain the Roman Catholic and Apostolic. The nation protects it by wise and just laws and prohibits the exercise of any other [religion].

• The Mexican nation adopts for its form of government a popular representative and federal republic.

Answer explanation

It's the only answer choice that mentions the government and it even explicitly says that it's representative.

4th Most Missed Question: Which statement describes a major difference between the Spanish and Anglo methods settlement of Texas?

• The Spanish settlers defended themselves, while Anglo settlers depended on presidios that had professional soldiers. 

• Anglos settlers came in search of gold, while Spanish settlers came to Texas for cheap land.

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  The Spanish government sent mainly soldiers and priests, while Anglos sent families to farm.

• Anglos settled in Texas to support the Spanish government, while Spanish settlers wanted to break away from their mother country. 

Answer explanation

The Spanish established Missions (church-like buildings) and Presidios (forts), so they sent Priests and Soldiers. The empressarios brought Anglo families instead.

5th Most Missed Question: Put the events in correct order

• Mexico wins independence from Spain

• Pineda maps the Texas coastline

• Founding of Stephen F. Austin's Colony

• Founding of the mission San Antonio de Valero

Answer explanation

(1) Pineda mapped the Coast line, then the (2) Spanish established missions in Texas. After many years, (3) Mexico declared its independence and then they focused on (4) Settling Texas with Empressarios like Stephen F. Austin.

6th Most Missed Question: Who led the search for the seven cities of gold, Cibola?

• Hernando de Soto

• Estevanico

• Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

• Fray Marcos de Niza

Answer explanation

Most people that missed it picked Estevanico, who was a slave and did not LEAD any expeditions. De Coronado was the one that led the expedition that was specifically looking for Cibola, the cities of gold.

Match the purpose for settling Texas to the correct Nation/Group

• Anglo-American

• To gain wealth (Gold), spread Christianity (God), and to expand their empire (Glory)

• Spanish

• They wanted to escape debt or start a new life. They also saw business opportunities because of agriculture (Cash Crops)

• Mexican

• To have a buffer between the hostile Native Texans (like the Comanches)

Match the Method for settling Texas to the correct Nation/Group

• Spanish

• Gave Empressario land grants to Anglo-American and Mexican empressarios so they could settle Texas for them. Also made civil settlements (towns and cities)

• Anglo-American

• Established colonies with the land grants they had received from the Mexican Government

• Mexican

• Established Missions, Presidios, and Civil Settlements

What was the last name of the explorer that shipwrecked on Galveston Island, lived with the Karankawas for 8 years, and explored modern-day Southwestern United States?

Federalism means there's a ​ (a)   government. Republic means there's a ​ (b)   government.

• National, State, and Local
• representative