WorksheetsSpanish Colonial / Mexican National Unit Test Review
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 15mins
Father Hidalgo's "El Grito de Dolores" speech is a significant event that led up to the ________________.
Anglo settlement of Texas
Establishment of missions in Texas
Texas Revolution
Mexican War for Independence
Mexico gained it's independence from Spain in what year?
1718
1818
1821
1836
Why did the Mexican Federal Constitution of 1824's merger of the states of Texas and Coahuila upset many Texans?
It led to increased taxes, raising the price of land
It made them more vulnerable to Indian attacks
It required that all settlers be Catholic, and many of them were not
It resulted in less representation for Texas in the Mexican government
Stephen F. Austin chose a spot for his colony between what two rivers?
Nueces and Rio Grande
Colorado and Brazos
Colorado and Nueces
Brazos and Sabine
Swearing allegiance to the Spanish (and later Mexican) government and following the Catholic religion were both requirements for ________________.
Signing the Mexican Constitution of 1824
Anglos settling Texas in the early 1800s
Joining the fight for Mexican Independence
Natives wanting to live at missions
What group, although differing in their personal goals and motivations, all felt Texas should be independent from Spain?
The empresarios
The peninsulares
The filibusters
The Comanches
What famous Texan founded the first significant Anglo colony in Texas and for that reason is known as the "Father of Texas"?
Fray Damian Massanet
Green DeWitt
Martin de Leon
Stephen F. Austin
Which of the following ARE true about the Spanish settlement of Texas during the 1700s? (CHOOSE TWO)
They built missions to convert the natives
Families came to settle permanently on the land
Presidios were used as protection for nearby settlements
The settlers brought many slaves to farm the land
Which of the following statements are true about the Anglo settlement of Texas during the early 1800s? (CHOOSE TWO)
Settlers purchased land grants
Friars taught the natives Christianity
Settlers adapted to the land by building pueblos out of adobe
Settlers established farms and plantations in the river valleys
What era of Texas history is being described?
- Filibusters helped Mexico gain independence
- Empresarios bought land grants and brought groups of settlers to help colonize Texas
Age of Contact
Spanish Colonial Era
Mexican National Era
Revolution and Republic Era
Presidios were built in order to __________________.
Serve as places of teaching and worship for the friars and natives
Raise livestock and develop profitable businesses for wealthy Spanish landowners
Protect those at the missions from Native American raids and potential French attacks
House soldiers and allow them to go to church and help tend the crops at the missions
Place names such as San Antonio and Laredo, and architecture such as the example in the image, show evidence of Texas' ______________.
Representative government
Anglo roots
Spanish legacy
French history
A term for something that is passed down generation to generation would be ___________.
ancestry
legacy
colony
trademark
Which of the following is an example of Spanish architecture in Texas?
What highway made travel between the Rio Grande missions and the East Texas missions much more manageable?
El Rio Brazos
El Camino del Reyes
El Camino de Laredo
El Camino Real
In what year was San Antonio, the most significant settlement of the Spanish Colonial Era, founded in Texas?
1519
1718
1721
1744
Check all of the following that are true about the Spanish Colonial Era. (CHOOSE TWO)
Three major settlement were left behind, the most significant being San Antonio
Empresarios were given land grants to permanently settle in Texas
The Spanish brought the cattle industry to Texas
Spanish explorers traveled all across Texas searching for gold
Which of the following WAS NOT a goal of the Spanish mission-presidio system in Texas?
Teaching the natives Catholicism
To sell land to Anglo settlers in order to protect Mexican settlements from hostile natives
Keeping the French out of Texas
Making the natives into productive and loyal Spanish colonists
Which of the following IS NOT an example of the Spanish influence on place names in Texas?
San Antonio
Austin
Amarillo
El Paso
Choose the two countries that had conflicting territorial claims in Texas during the 1600 and 1700s.
France
Spain
Mexico
Britain
