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

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 1hrs 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

In which battle did Texas win its independence?


a)

A. Alamo

b)

B. Gonzales

c)

C. San Jacinto

d)

D. Concepcion

2.


What branch establishes post offices?

a)

A. bureaucratic 

b)

B. executive

c)

C. judicial

d)

d. legislative

3.

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

a)

A. Santa Anna

b)

B. Sam Houston

c)

C. Stephen Austin

d)

D. Mirabeau Lamar

4.

How did Texas try to pay the war debt? 


a)

 a. by collecting taxes

b)

 b. by borrowing money

c)

 c. by holding a fundraiser 

d)

 d. by starting another war

5.

What is a promissory note? 


a)

 a. a deed to land given to settlers

b)

b. a promise to pay for items later 

c)

 c. a pledge for a set amount of money

d)

 d. an plan to make payments over time

6.

What did Houston agree to give the Cherokee? 

 


a)

 a. the title to their lands in East Texas 

b)

 b. the rights to the upper Rio Grande valley 

c)

 c. a percentage of the state taxes collected

d)

 d. permission to move Texans off of Cherokee lands

7.

What are the Texas Rangers?


a)

 a. a division of law enforcement 

b)

 b. an organization for local sheriffs 

c)

 c. a volunteer force of mounted police

d)

 d. a border patrol unit along the Rio Grande 

8.

What role did the Rangers play during the revolution? 


a)

 a. surveyors and scouts

b)

 b. medics and surveyors 

c)

 c. scouts and messengers 

d)

 d. messengers and medics

9.

Who changed the role of the Rangers? 


a)

 a. Anson Jones 

b)

b. David Burnet 

c)

 c. Sam Houston 

d)

 d. Mirabeau Lamar

10.

What created tensions with tribes in Texas? 

a)

 a. Texas became a republic. 

b)

 b. Sam Houston was elected. 

c)

 c. More Texas Rangers were recruited.

d)

d. The Mexican War of Independence happened.

11.

What happened to American Indian tribes as Texas grew?


a)

 a. Livestock trampled and destroyed crops. 

b)

 b. Fighting and disease ravaged their populations. 

c)

 c. They lost their lands and access to natural resources.

d)

 d. Trade networks increased faster than they could manage.

12.

Why did the Comanche often attack surveyors?  


a)

 a. They laid new railroad tracks.

b)

 b. They disrupted trade networks. 

c)

 c. They stole horses and livestock. 

d)

d. They claimed Comanche land. 

13.

What was the first capital of Texas?

 


a)

 a. Austin

b)

 b. Columbia

c)

 c. Houston

d)

 d. Waterloo

14.

What is the capital of Texas?


a)

a. Austin

b)

 b. Columbia

c)

  c. Houston 

d)

d. Waterloo

15.

What was the original name of the current capital? 


a)


 a. Austin

b)

 b. Columbia

c)

 c. Houston 

d)

 d. Waterloo