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Chapter 8: Growing Tensions
      
  1.What happened to the Texas colonists when the Centralist Party came into power in Mexico?  
  a.   The colonists were left alone.  
  b.   The colonists began to establish their own schools and newspapers.  
  c.   The colonists came under closer authority of the national government of Mexico.  
  d.   The colonists were allowed to bring in more enslaved workers.  
      
  2.What was the Republic of Fredonia?  
  a.   the name given to the captured Old Stone Fort in Nacogdoches by Benjamin Edwards  
  b.   the name of the province of Texas under the Centralist Party  
  c.   Stephen F. Austin's fourth empresario land grant  
  d.   the new capital of Coahuila y Tejas after 1825  
      
  3.After investigating Texas, what did General Manuel de Mier y Terán report to the Mexican president?  
  a.   that American influence was weak in East Texas  
  b.   that Mexican settlers outnumbered Anglo American settlers by at least five to one  
  c.   that American influence was growing in Texas  
  d.   that Native American uprisings were hindering Anglo American settlements  
      
  4.Which of the following was NOT a part of the Law of April 6, 1830?  
  a.   Immigration from the United States into Texas was stopped.  
  b.   Most empresario contracts that had not been completed were suspended.  
  c.   Trade between foreign nations and Texas was discouraged by customs duties.  
  d.   Immigration of Mexican and European families into Texas was limited.  
      
  5.Why did the commander of Anahuac imprison William B. Travis and Patrick C. Jack in May 1832?  
  a.   because they interfered with the commander's efforts to enforce the laws  
  b.   because they refused to give up runaway enslaved people  
  c.   because they made plans to collect customs duties  
  d.   because they tried to take supplies  
      
  6.Which of the following was NOT one of the Turtle Bayou Resolutions?  
  a.   The colonists declared their loyalty to Mexico.  
  b.   The colonists declared their support of Centralist President Anastasio Bustamante.  
  c.   The colonists denied that they were rebelling against Mexican authority.  
  d.   The colonists insisted that they were supporting Antonio López de Santa Anna.  
      
  7.Delegates to the Convention of 1832 wanted ________.  
  a.   Texas to be made a separate Mexican state  
  b.   immigration from the United States to be halted  
  c.   to prepare a constitution for the proposed Mexican state of Texas  
  d.   fewer land titles for settlers in East Texas  
      
  8.Why was Stephen F. Austin imprisoned in Mexico City?  
  a.   He was taking land grants away from other empresarios.  
  b.   He spoke out against Santa Anna.  
  c.   Mexican officials found a letter he had written encouraging Texans to form their own government.  
  d.   He had written the Declaration of 1832.  
      
  9.What happened after William B. Travis forced the commander at Anahuac to surrender in 1835?  
  a.   All Mexican troops left East Texas.  
  b.   Santa Anna imprisoned Stephen F. Austin.  
  c.   General Cós announced that soldiers were coming to arrest disloyal Texans.  
  d.   Travis wrote a letter of apology to General Cós.  
      
  10.What was the Consultation?  
  a.   a meeting of Peace Party delegates who opposed stirring up trouble with the Mexican government  
  b.   a meeting of Texans to decide how to turn Travis and others over to a Mexican military court  
  c.   a meeting of War Party delegates to declare war on Mexico  
  d.   a meeting at Washington-on-the-Brazos for delegates to work for peace but be prepared for war  

 





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