Texas Studies Weekly: The Republic of Texas (Week 14)

In which battle did Texas win its independence?

• A. Alamo

• B. Gonzales

• C. San Jacinto

• D. Concepcion

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4.3.D

What branch establishes post offices?

• A. bureaucratic 

• B. executive

• C. judicial

• d. legislative

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4.3.D

Who was elected the first president of the Republic of Texas?

• A. Santa Anna

• B. Sam Houston

• C. Stephen Austin

• D. Mirabeau Lamar

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4.3.D

How did Texas try to pay the war debt? 

•  a. by collecting taxes

•  b. by borrowing money

•  c. by holding a fundraiser 

•  d. by starting another war

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4.3.D

What is a promissory note? 

•  a. a deed to land given to settlers

• b. a promise to pay for items later 

•  c. a pledge for a set amount of money

•  d. an plan to make payments over time

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4.3.D

What did Houston agree to give the Cherokee? 

 

•  a. the title to their lands in East Texas 

•  b. the rights to the upper Rio Grande valley 

•  c. a percentage of the state taxes collected

•  d. permission to move Texans off of Cherokee lands

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4.3.D

What are the Texas Rangers?

•  a. a division of law enforcement 

•  b. an organization for local sheriffs 

•  c. a volunteer force of mounted police

•  d. a border patrol unit along the Rio Grande 

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4.3.D

What role did the Rangers play during the revolution? 

•  a. surveyors and scouts

•  b. medics and surveyors 

•  c. scouts and messengers 

•  d. messengers and medics

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4.3.D

Who changed the role of the Rangers? 

•  a. Anson Jones 

• b. David Burnet 

•  c. Sam Houston 

•  d. Mirabeau Lamar

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4.3.D

What created tensions with tribes in Texas? 

•  a. Texas became a republic. 

•  b. Sam Houston was elected. 

•  c. More Texas Rangers were recruited.

• d. The Mexican War of Independence happened.

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4.3.D