Miscellaneous Info
This overarching war between Texas and Mexico led to the battle.
Spanish American War
Texas Revolution
What is the Texan Revolution?
This famous folk hero and frontiersman from the backwoods of Tennessee volunteered and ultimately died during the battle.
Who is Davy Crockett?
Mexico’s prohibition of this American institution angered many Texas settlers who wanted to grow cotton.
What is slavery?
This rallying cry was used to motivate Texan soldiers and remains a commonly used symbol of Texas resistance and pop culture
What is "Remember the Alamo!"
The fort that would later become the Alamo was founded by this empire during the early 18th century.
What is the Spanish Empire?
The Alamo is located in this city in southern Texas.
Dallas
San Antonio
Houston
What is San Antonio?
This stubborn and sometimes controversial leader was the president of the United States when the Alamo fell.
John Quincy Adams
Andrew Jackson
James Monroe
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This religion was mandatory for all Texans, which was unpopular with American settlers in Texas.
What is Catholicism?
The site of the Alamo now functions as a historical _____ and attracts over 2.5 million visitors annually.
What is a museum?
Initially, the fort was created in an attempt to educate Native Americans about this European philosophy.
What is Christianity?
It was during this year that the battle took place?
1835
1836
1837
What is 1836?
This political leader and general commanded the Mexican forces during the battle and was accused of cruelty for his actions.
Who is Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna?
Texans viewed the Mexican government as ______ and uninterested in the affairs of Texas.
___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
Starts will a c
What is corrupt?
Due to the valiant struggle of the Texas defenders against impossible odds, the Alamo is sometimes compared to this ancient battle between 300 Spartans and hundreds of thousands of Persians.
What is the Battle of Thermopylae?
This religious structure is one of the only parts of the Alamo that still stands and was the last position held by the Texan defenders
What is The Chapel?
It took ___ assaults by the Mexican army to overrun the defenders.
two
three
four
What is 3 Assaults?
A renowned hero in his own right, this colonel was second in command of the Texan forces and was famous for his skills with a knife.
Who is James Bowie?
Most Texans were of _____ descent, which led to a lack of identity in the Texas territory.
What is American?
The revenge sought by many Texans after the Battle of the Alamo is sometimes used to explain the decisive Texan victory at this battle a month and a half later.
What is the Battle of San Jacinto?
After the fort was secularized in the early 1800s, the first of these institutions in the history of Texas was founded in the Barracks to help the weak and sick.
What is a hospital?
Historians estimate that approximately ___ Mexican soldiers assaulted the Alamo.
1500
2500
3000
What is 2,500 Mexican soldiers?
The first major meeting of delegates in Texas history, this convention sought (and failed)to negotiate reconciliation between the settlers and Texas.
Convention of 1830
Convention of 1831
Convention of 1832
What is The convention of 1832?
This was the name historians have given to the massive retreat of Texan civilians following the battle.
Runaway Cause
Runaway Scrape
Runaway Confusion
What is The Runaway Scrape?
Initially, the Alamo was known by this name
Mission San Antonio Valero
Mission San Antonio de Llama
Mission San Antonio Muertos
What is Mission San Antonio de Valero?