Chapter 7 & 8 Test Review
1. Where did Stephen F. Austin decide was a good place for his colony?(p.166)
2. Why did Stephen F. Austin raise a militia when he returned from Mexico City after appealing his original land grant? (p. 169)
3. How many original settlers did Stephen Austin bring to his colony, and what have they been know as in history?(p.169)
4. List the three requirements that colonists had to agree to be able to settle in Austin’s Colony. (p. 167)
5. How did Baron de Bastrop help Moses Austin colonize Texas? (Remember play, p. 165)
6. What was the main reason Anglo Americans came and settled in Texas?(p.167)
7. Why did Stephen Austin want his colony along the coast? (p. 166)
8. In the 1820’s, where did the majority of the immigrants to Texas come from?
9. What were the three reasons colonists in Texas thought they needed slaves?(p. 177)
10. In the Mexican government, Centralists’ believed what?(p. 173)
11. What was the name of the woman who helped found Victoria?(p. 176)
12. What was the end result of the Fredonian Revolt?(p. 188)
13. What did Stephen F. Austin urge Texans to do when he returned from Mexico in 1835? (p. 198)
14. At the battle of Velasco, Colonel Urgatechea and the Mexican troops did what? (p. 192)
15. When Haden Edwards arrived in Nacogdoches he discovered what? (p. 187)
16. During early colonization, Texas’s economy was tied to what nearby Nation?
17. What was the key issue behind the trouble being caused in Anahuac in 1835? (p. 197)
18. Austin approved of the Consultation because he thought that Santa Anna was becoming what? (p. 198)
19. Why did Benjamin Edwards seize the Old Stone fort in Nacogdoches? (p. 187-88)
20. What did Mier y Teran report was happening in East Texas? (p. 188)
21. What were the three most important results from the Law of April 6, 1830?
(p. 189)
22. Many colonists supported Santa Anna in the beginning because he was claiming to be what? (p. 191)
23. The Convention of 1832 resolved that Texas should be what? (p. 192)
24. Santa Anna refused to grant Texas statehood, but he agreed to repeal the law restricting what? (p. 195)
25. Who was quoted to say “War is our only resource” (p. 198)
26. Name the area in East Texas where the first clash between the colonists and Mexican authorities began? (p. 187)
27. What were the headquarters for Green DeWitt’s colony? (p. 176)
28. What was the capital of Austin’s colony? (p. 170)
29. Where did the Consultation met in October 1835? (p. 197)
30. What was the name of the convention called in 1835? (p. 197)