Filibusters in Texas

Why did Philip Nolan concern Spanish leaders in Mexico?

• He was thought to be helping pirates stash stolen gold along the Texas coast

• He was known for spying on Spanish activities for French forces in Louisiana

• He was suspected of plotting to claim land in Texas for Canada

• He was responsible for making maps and stealing wild mustangs from Texas prairies

The Gutierrez-Magee Expedition was formed to-

• convince the United States to support Mexico

• suppress any attempts by settlers to rebel in Texas

• defend settlers from attacks from Native Americans

• continue the rebellion started by Father Hidalgo

Which filibuster was very angry about the Adams-Onis treaty? He was later captured and executed in 1822 after leading an army into Nacogdoches and declaring Texas' independence from Spain.

• Philip Nolan

• Augustus Magee

• Dr. James Long

• Shorty

Who is known as the Mother of Texas?

• Abigail Adams

• Dolly Madison

• Martha Washington

• Jane Long

Which of the following is the definition of a filibuster?

• a person who organizes and manages a business

• a person who wages unofficial war on a country, acting for their own benefit

• an important financier or industrialist

• a person in charge of an empire

Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla helped start the Mexican struggle for independence with his

• resignation speech

• eulogy for King Philip of Spain

• Sermon to the Masses

• Grito de Delores

Which were the top two classes in New Spain?

• Indians and Mestizos

• Mestizos and Criollos

• Criollos and Peninsulares

• Mestizos and Peninsulares

The _______ were the social class of people in New Spain who were of mixed Spanish and Native American blood (3rd class).

• Indians

• Criollos

• Peninsulares

• Mestizos

American horse wrangler, accused of being a spy by the Spanish government, killed in a clash with Spanish soldiers

• Philip Nolan

• Jean Lafitte

• Jose Bernardo Gutierrez de Lara

• Luis Michel Aury

Pirates based in Galveston, who raided Spanish ships in support of the Mexican Rebels

• Louis Michel Aury & Jean Lafitte

• James & Jane Long

• Philip Nolan & Stephen F. Austin

• Jose Gutierrez de Lara and Augustus Magee