Texas History Activity

An agreement among countries to work together is called a(n) _____.

• association

• bargain

• alliance

• compact

After Spain acquired Louisiana, it abandoned most of its missions in _____.

• East Texas

• New Orleans

• West Texas

• New Mexico

Spain and _____ sided with the thirteen North American colonies during the American Revolution.

• Canada

• Germany

• France

• Russia

_____ led settlers back into East Texas against the wishes of Spanish authoriities.

• Gil Y'Barbo

• Bucareli

• Marqués de Rubí

• Barón de Ripperdá

In 1819 Spain gave Florida to the United States while the United States surrendered all claims to _____.

• Louisiana

• Mississippi

• Texas

• New Mexico

On _____, 1810, Father Hidalgo y Costilla issued a call for independence from Spain.

• May 5

• September 16

• July 4

• March 2

In 1811 Bernardo Gutiérrez de Lara traveled to Washington, D.C., to ask the United States help toward what goal?

• fighting Native Americans

• settling more people in Texas

• defeating the Mexican independence movement

• freeing Texas from Spanish rule

The Battle of Medina resulted in the defeat of what filibuster?

• Gutiérrez-Magee Expedition

• Jean Lafitte

• James Long

• Joaquín de Arredondo

In 1819 filibuster _____ led a group of 300 rebels into Texas and captured the town of Nacogdoches.

• James Long

• Jean Lafitte

• Louis Michel Aury

• David Long

Charles François Lallemand tried to make a French settlement where in Texas?

• along the Brazos River

• along the Trinity River

• on the Gulf Coast

• along the Rio Grande