Filibusters
Filibuster means this.
What is a pirate?
Empresario means this in Spanish.
What is businessman?
Famous frontiersman who played his fiddle during the Battle of the Alamo.
Who was Davy Crockett?
General and eventual dictator of Mexico.
Who was Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna?
This event happened in 1821 when the people of Mexico toppled the Spanish rulers.
What is the Mexican Revolution?
Considered the "Mother of Texas."
Who was Jane Long?
He convinced the Spanish government to grant land to immigrants from the United States to Texas.
Who was Moses Austin?
Former governor of Tennessee and friend of President Jackson, he led the Texians to victory over Mexico.
Who was Sam Houston?
The religion that Mexico required the settlers to have.
What is Catholicism?
The last battle of the Texas revolution resulted in the defeat of Santa Anna.
What was the Battle of San Jacinto?
Irishman who sold wild horses and wished that Texas would become part of the United States.
Who was Philip Nolan?
He was in charge of bringing 300 families from the US to Texas.
Who was Stephen F. Austin?
Future hero of the Alamo, he was imprisoned by Bradburn at Anahuac.
Who was William Barret Travis?
The Texians supported this because it was modeled after US laws and granted them many rights.
What was the Constitution of 1824?
The "Come and Take it" flag was flown at this battle.
What was the Battle For Gonzales?
This attempt at establishing an independent Republic in Texas ended because the leader was cruel and lost the support of his followers. They captured San Antonio.
What was the Gutierrez-Magee expedition?
Settlers left their homes in the US and often left this sign on their doors.
What is GTT (Gone to Texas)?
She survived the Battle of the Alamo and was sent to Gonzales to warn the Texians not to continue the fight against Mexico.
Who was Susanna Dickinson?
This Mexican general surrendered San Antonio after the Texians, led by Ben Milam captured the Alamo.
Who was General Cos?
These two early victories for the Texians resulted in the evacuation of the Mexican Army from Texas.
What were the battles of Velasco and Nacogdoches?
James long sought the assistance of these pirates who lived on Galveston Island.
Who were the Lafitte brothers?
This infamous empresario was sent away after leading the Fredonian Rebellion.
Who was Haden Edwards?
A Tejano hero of the Texas War for Independence, he led a company of Tejano soldiers at the Battle of San Jacinto and later served as a senator and mayor of San Antonio.
Who was Juan Seguin?
The name of the bugle call played by Santa Anna at the Battle of the Alamo.
What was "Deguello" which means to slit the throat or to slaughter?
While the massacre at the Alamo is more famous, there was another massacre at this place.
What is Goliad?