Vocabulary
What is a scout?
What is a person who gathers clues about an enemy or location.
What was the name given to the event when people fled east to escape Mexican troops?
What is the runaway scrape.
Who ordered Colonel James Fannin to blow up the fort at Goliad and leave?
What is Sam Houston Sam Houston.
Who taught some of Sam Houston's men to be scouts and served as a spy for them?
What is "Deaf" Smith taught some of the men to be scouts, and an African American freedman named Hendrick Arnold served as a spy for Smith.
What did Houston's soldiers find when they went to search for Santa Anna?
What is they caught a Mexican soldier wearing common clothing.
What does retreat mean?
What is leave the battlefield and not fight.
What were some of the challenges faced by the people during the Runaway Scrape?
What is they did not have enough blankets, warm clothes, or food.
Who did Fannin and his men fight and lose to?
What is Soldiers commanded by Mexican General Don Jose Urrea.
What did the citizens of Cincinnati, Ohio, send to help the people of Texas?
What is The citizens of Cincinnati, Ohio, sent two cannons which were called the Twin Sisters.
Besides the main treaty, what other treaty was also signed between Santa Anna and President Burnet?
What is A second, secret treaty was also signed. Santa Anna promised to work to get his government to agree to the independence of Texas.
Define monument?
What is a structure built to show respect for a past event.
How did one teenager describe the Runaway Scrape?
What is "O! the cruel runaway scrape-how much distress, suffering and loss it caused!"
Who helped some of the prisoners escape?
What is Francita Alavez, the "Angel of Goliad."
How did Santa Anna initially believe he had Houston's army trapped?
What is Santa Anna believed he had Houston's army trapped between the San Jacinto River and Buffalo Bayou.
Who were the two Tejanos mentioned who made significant contributions to the Texas Revolution?
What is Placido Benavides and Juan Antonio Padilla.
What is a formal agreement between two countries.
What decision did Sam Houston make when he learned that the Alamo had fallen?
What is he ordered his men to retreat and not fight.
Instead of following Houston's orders, what did Fannin do?
What is he sent some of his troops to help the fleeing settlers.
How did the Texas forces surprise the Mexican army on the afternoon of April 21, 1836?
What is The Texas forces crossed the open prairie between them and the Mexican army in full daylight, taking them completely by surprise.
How did Jose Francisco Ruiz contribute to the Texas Revolution?
What is contributed to the Texas Revolution by serving as a delegate at the Convention on 1836.
What is a scrape?
What is a tricky situation or a problem.
Who was the brave scout that returned with survivors from the Alamo?
What is Erastus "Deaf" Smith.
What battle cry did the people of Texas gain from the Goliad massacre?
What is "Remember Goliad!"
What battle cries did the Texas forces yell during the battle?
What is The Texas forces cried, "Remember the Alamo!" and "Remember Goliad!"
This monument is the tallest war monument in the world.
What is the San Jacinto Monument.