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What major event occurred in 1821?
a) Spain gave up all its lands in the Americas
b) Nacogdoches was founded
c) The modern boundaries of Texas were established
d) Mexico won independence from Spain

What was Mexico's main goal when it created the empresario system?
a) to bring settlers to Texas
b) to create a trade center
c) to make empresarios rich
d) become Catholics

The State Colonization Law of 1825 required new Texas settlers to
a) become Catholics
b) create a capital
c) pay higher taxes
d) protect the borderlands

Most of the immigrants coming into Texas during the 1820s and 1830s were
a) soldiers from other parts of Mexico
b) farmers from the United States
c) ranchers from Mexico
d) farmers from Mexico

Land purchased from France in 1803 when Thomas Jefferson was President, that doubled the size of the U.S.
a) Texas Annexation
b) Northwest Territory
c) Louisiana Purchase
d) Mexican Cession

Settlers from which region helped sausages and sauerkraut become popular in Texas?
a) Mexico
b) Ireland
c) Spain
d) Germany

Mexican General Maunuel de Mier y Teran warned of
a) American Indians who did not want to be Mexican citizens
b) the water shortages in areas of West Texas
c) the growing American influence in East Texas
d) increasing number of settles arriving from Canada

What was the main objective of the Law of April 6, 1830?
a) to control the presence of US citizens in Texas
b) to create new government offices
c) to revoke empresario titles
d) to prohibit slaveholders from settling in Texas

The first conflict in Texas in the years leading up to the Texas Revolution occurred near which town?
a) San Antonio
b) Austin
c) Nacodoches
d) Anahuac

What was the goal of the Convention of 1832?
a) to create public schools in Texas
b) to write resolutions regarding several Texas affairs
c) to start a new rebellion in the southern part of Texas
d) to convince Santa Anna that Texans were loyal to Mexico

Which of the following actions would most likely have been committed by a filibuster in Mexican Texas?
a) They would rule over a mission, trying to convert Native Americans
b) They would go into Texas and stir up controversy
c) They would move to Texas and live in an abandoned homes
d) They would go to Texas and join the fight for Mexican independence

What happened in the United States after British Parliament passed the Stamp Act?
a) colonists boycotted British goods
b) the civil war
c) the Boston Massacre
d) Americans passed the Constitution

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