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Chapter 9: Road to Independence
      
  1.What was the purpose of committees of correspondence in Texas?  
  a.   to watch the roads and give warnings of approaching troops  
  b.   to share political and military information  
  c.   to report disloyal activities among other Texans  
  d.   to write the Texas Declaration of Independence  
      
  2.What battle is known as the Lexington of Texas?  
  a.   the Battle of Gonzales  
  b.   the Battle of Goliad  
  c.   the Battle of the Alamo  
  d.   the Battle of Anahuac  
      
  3.Who won the Battle of Gonzales?  
  a.   Texan volunteers  
  b.   Mexican and Cherokee volunteers  
  c.   Mexican soldiers under General Cós  
  d.   the Texas army led by Sam Houston  
      
  4.What did the delegates at the Consultation declare?  
  a.   They declared war on Mexico.  
  b.   They declared their support for the Centralist Party in Mexico.  
  c.   They declared their support for the Mexican Constitution of 1824.  
  d.   They declared their desire to join the United States.  
      
  5.Who was named provisional governor at the Consultation?  
  a.   Stephen F. Austin  
  b.   Sam Houston  
  c.   Henry Smith  
  d.   William B. Travis  
      
  6.What was the result of the assault on San Antonio in December 1835?  
  a.   Mexican troops fought their way from house to house and pushed back the Texans.  
  b.   General Cós surrendered and promised never to fight against the colonists again.  
  c.   Texan forces took refuge in the abandoned mission known as the Alamo.  
  d.   A force of nearly 1,000 Mexican troops defeated the Texans.  
      
  7.Many of the more than 100 Tejanos who served in the Texas army were commanded by ________.  
  a.   Plácido Benavides  
  b.   Manuel Flores  
  c.   Hendrick Arnold  
  d.   Juan N. Seguín  
      
  8.In early 1836, the provisional government of Texas ________.  
  a.   cooperated to prepare to fight Santa Anna  
  b.   quarreled among themselves  
  c.   tried to secure loans from wealthy Royalists  
  d.   began writing a Declaration of Independence  
      
  9.What happened at Washington-on-the-Brazos on March 2, 1836?  
  a.   The Texas Declaration of Independence was adopted by unanimous vote of the Convention.  
  b.   Santa Anna entered the town and routed the Texas provisional government.  
  c.   The Texas constitution was approved.  
  d.   David G. Burnet was chosen as ad interim president of Texas.  
      
  10.How did the Texas constitution differ from the United States Constitution?  
  a.   The Texas constitution set up only two branches of government.  
  b.   The Texas constitution made slavery legal.  
  c.   The Texas constitution did not contain a Bill of Rights.  
  d.   The Texas constitution did not guarantee freedom of speech.  

 





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