Test 2

Question 1

Thomas Ashe

Answer 1

• rode through the Appalachians and wrote what he saw
• liked to fight
• founding member of the Irish Volunteers
• fought British forces

Question 2

Moses Austin

Answer 2

• constant entrapreneur
• wanted success for his family and name
• lead mining, banking, land speculation
• sent SFA to a very prestigious boarding school
• died of ammonia
• sent a final letter to SFA asking him to move to Texas and fufill his dream

Question 3

Stephen F Austin

Answer 3

• son of Moses Austin
• one of the few with a college education in Texas
• learned to speak, write, and read proper Spanish
• signed documents in his Spanish name
• very cultured man

Question 4

Martin De Leon

Answer 4

• the only Mexican empresario to found a colony in Texas
• came from a family of wealth
• captain, highest rank of the criollos (purebred spainards/elite ground)

Question 5

McGloin and McMullen

Answer 5

The two applied for and received a grant from Mexico in 1828 to colonize 200 Irish families on the Nueces River

Question 6

Power and Hewston

Answer 6

Partnership to establish a colony and applied for an empresario contract to colonize the Texas coast with Irish Catholic and Mexican families

Question 7

Lorenzo De Zavala

Answer 7

• first vice president of the republic of Texas
• got a grant to settle 500 families along the southeastern Texas
• active supporter in the independence movement
• drafted the constitution of the rep of Texas
• translator for Sam Houston when communicating with Santa Ana

Question 8

Jane McManus Storm Caznieu

Answer 8

• beautiful
• only lived in Texas for 8-10 years
• early 1830’s: wanted Germans to come to America
• came up with “manifest destiny”
• went by male names
• spied for USA
• died on a boat coming from NYC

Question 9

David G. Burnet

**look up more dumbass

Answer 9

-him and Sam Houston hated each other

Question 10

Sam Houston

Answer 10

• noticed by Andrew Jackson for his ability to fight and leadership in the battle of Fort Memes
• gets shot in the thigh that never really heals

Question 11

Miguel Hidalgo

Answer 11

• part of the elite “coriollos” group of Mexico
• catholic priest
• odd and bad morals
• father of Mexican Revolution
• released the “gritto de delores”, mexican dec of ind.
• put to death in summer of 1811

Question 12

Reasons for the collapse of Spain in Western Hemisphere

******

Answer 12

-spanish empire failed

Question 13

Erasmo Seguin

Answer 13

• a good man to know in order to make money

- San Antonio political figure, businessman, postmaster

Question 14

Baron de Bastrop

Answer 14

• respected man
• advice is listened to
• took Moses Austin to governors office and convinces him to give Austin a land grant

Question 15

Samuel May Williams

Answer 15

-Entrepreneur & associate of Stephen F. Austin

Question 16

Panic of 1819

Answer 16

• First major financial crisis
• The bust of the boom (Banks and land values collapse)
• The Austin’s lost it all

Question 17

Augustin de Iturbide

Answer 17

• 1821/1822 Mexican agents travel Europe looking for king/queen of Mexico
• They find… Augustin I
• Empire from May 19th 1822 to March 19th 1823
• Shot and killed in 1824

Question 18

John Q. Adams

Answer 18

• Sixth president of the US (1825-1829)

- Started the Republican party

Question 19

Charles Dickinson

Answer 19

• Was killed by Andrew Jackson

- Studied law under US Chief Justice John Marshall

Question 20

Ayuntamiento

Answer 20

The principle governing body of the Spanish municipalities

Functioned as the town council

Question 21

Fort Mims

Answer 21

• 1813 Creek indians led by William Wetherford(chief red eagle)
• The Red Sticks
• Attacked innocent people
• Killed people hardcore
• Jackson comes off death bed to aveng them

Question 22

Write a biographical sketch of the Austin family

Answer 22

• Hey Sarah, go fuck yourself that Bexar shit wasn’t on the fist review!!
• Father= Moses Austin (5 Children~3lived to maturity)
• Two sons= Stephen F. And Brown Austin
• One daughter= Emily Austin

Question 23

Andrew Jackson

Answer 23

• man of hatred
• marries Rachel Roberts
• nickname “Old Hickory”
• becomes president
• general of the Tennessee Militia
• took good care of his army when the government denied them any funds
• killed Charles Dickens
• evolved the Democratic Party

Question 24

Borderlander Culture

Answer 24

• Scottish clan of 100,000

- 1725-1775

Question 25

Vara

Answer 25

• measurement for land
• equaled one step
• approximately 33 1/3 inch

Question 26

Labor

Answer 26

• land unit
• 177 acres
• each family that entered Stephen F Austin’s colony got a “labor of land”

Question 27

League

Answer 27

• land unit
• what cattle raisers received in Stephen F Austin’s colony
• if the family combined ranching and farming they got both a labor and a league

Question 28

Plan de Iguala

Answer 28

• SFA’s plan for the organization of congress for the Empire of Mexico
• April 8, 1823

Question 29

Election of 1824

Answer 29

• John Quincy Adams was elected president
• considered the “corrupt bargain”
• election that formed the two different republican parties

Question 30

Election of 1828

Answer 30

• rematch between Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams
• Andrew Jackson won
• first democratic president

Question 31

Alcalde

Answer 31

• acted as chief executive and a judge in minor cases in a Spanish towns
• head of the town council

Question 32

Horseshoe Bend

Answer 32

-where Jackson catches the red sticks after the battle at Fort Mims

Question 33

Adams Onis Treaty

Answer 33

• signed feb 22, 1819 by John Quincy Adams

- fixed the western boundary of the Louisiana Purchase as beginning at the mouth of the Sabine River

Question 34

What were the jobs of the Empresario?

Answer 34

Land agent or land contractor

Question 35

Mexican War for independence

Answer 35

-Mexico was trying to gain independence from Spain