People
Battles
Causes
Events
Documents
100
The commander of the Texas Army who defeated Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto
Who is Sam Houston?
100
The first battle of the Texas Revolution, which occured when Mexican soldiers tried to retrieve their own cannon.
What is the Battle of Gonzales?
100

The three requirements for Americans to move into Texas.

What is be a Catholic, be a good person, be a Mexican citizen?

100

The importance of the year 1836.

What is the year Texas gained independence?

100
The document written in 1836 which stated why Texas felt the need to become an independent country.
What is Texas Declaration of Independence?
200

The commander of the regular army forces at the Alamo who wrote the letter asking for help before deciding to stay and fight.

Who is William B. Travis?

200
The battle which took place outside of Goliad, in which Texas forces surrendered to the Mexican army and were later killed.
What is the Battle of Coleto Creek?
200

The uprising in which the Edwards brothers declared part of Texas to be independent of Mexico.

What is the Fredonian Rebellion?

200
The meeting in which Texas delegates declared independence from Mexico, selected officers for the temporary government, and wrote a constitution.
What is the Convention of 1836?
200
The document written in 1836 that set up the new plan of government for Texas, which included 3 branches of government.
What is the Texas Constitution of 1836?
300

The commander of the forces at Coleto Creek who surrendered and died in the Goliad Massacre.

Who is James Fannin?

300
One of the most famous battles in the world in which less than 200 Texans chose to fight to the death against over 5,000 Mexican soldiers rather than surrender.
What is the Battle of the Alamo?
300

This report by a Mexican general caused the Mexican government to place harsher restrictions on Americans living in Texas. Led to the Law of April 6th, 1830.

What is the Mier y Teran report?

300

The event where almost 400 Texas troops were executed after they had surrendered to the Mexican Army.

What is the Goliad Massacre?

300
The treaty that ended the Texas Revolution.
What is the Treaty of Velasco?
400
The Mexican President who warned that no prisoners would be taken at the Alamo.
Who is Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna?
400

List all four of the most important battles in the TX Revolution. 

What are the Battle of Gonzales, the Battle of Coleto Creek, the Battle of the Alamo, and the Battle of San Jacinto?

400

The Mexican law that forced the Texans to write the Turtle Bayou Resolutions. It outlawed immigration from the United States and slavery and raised taxes on goods from the United States. 

What is the Law of April 6th, 1830?

400

The Texas defeat that caused many people from the U.S. to volunteer in Houston's army and allowed the Texans to eventually win independence.

What is the Battle of the Alamo?

400

This letter asked for reinforcements at the Battle of the Alamo.

What is the Travis Letter?

500

The man who wrote the Texas Declaration of Independence. 

Who is George Childress?

500
The most decisive victory in the history of the world, in which Sam Houston defeated Santa Anna and forced him to surrender and remove the Mexican army from Texas.
What is the Battle of San Jacinto?
500

He was imprisoned in Mexico after officials read a letter he sent back to Texas colonists.

Who is Stephen Austin?

500
The desperate retreat of Texas colonists after the defeats at the Alamo and Goliad, in which they took everything they owned and burned what they could not take with them.
What is the Runaway Scrape?
500

The document written asking the Mexican Government to follow the constitution they wrote in 1824.

What are the Turtle Bayou Resolutions?

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