Chapter 10: Steps Toward Independence

What did Santa Anna ignore in order to make himself a dictator?

• Constitution of 1824

• Texas Declaration of Independence

• Texas Constitution

• The people of the United States

What did the Mexican officials think was needed in Texas?

• a temporary government

• a committee of correspondence

• more soliders

• a cannon

Who had given the people of Gonzales a small cannon to protect themselves from Native Americans?

• The Mexican government

• The Spanish

• The United States

• General Cos

Who sent a small group of soliders to retrieve the cannon at Gonzales?

• General Cos

• Stephen F Austin

• Santa Anna

• Urgartechea

What did the residents of Gonzales do with the cannon once they heard the soliders were on their way to retrieve it?

• They put it in a display case

• They buried it

• They handed it over to the soliders

• They moved to the next town over

The townspeople dug up the cannon and then decorated it with a white flag that said ___?

• Come and Take It

• Good Luck

• Na, Na, Na, Na

• Texas Live On

What reasons did the Texans give for fighting at Gonzales? Pick all that apply

• Mexican soliders were trying to take the cannon

• Santa Anna wasn't upholding the Constitution of 1824

• Because they felt like it

• Ugartechea siege Texas land for himself

What did the Battle of Gonzales mean to the Texas?

• Nothing at all

• They could keep the cannon and return back to their lives

• A rallying point to create support

• They lost so they stopped trying to fight Mexico

What did the Battle of Gonzales mean to the Mexicans?

• Nothing at all

• They used it as a rallying point for support

• They lost so they just returned home and didn't want to fight Texas anymore

• Mexico was at war with Texas

What did the Texas do a week after the Battle of Gonzales?

• went to Washington-On-The-Brazos

• Attacked San Antonio

• Attacked Mexican garrison at Goliad

• delegates attended the Consultation