10. SLAVERY EXPANDS SOUTH AND WEST, 1830

Quiz for Comparative Analysis Two Views on Texas Independence

Quiz for Comparative Analysis: Two Views on Texas Independence

Choose the best answer for each question.

1. What is William Travis trying to do by writing this letter from the Alamo?

Instigate war with Santa Ana.

Anger Sam Houston and the Texas leadership.

Intimidate Santa Ana and his forces.

Spare civilians from facing Mexican troops.

2. According to his letter, how did Travis and his men initially respond to calls for a surrender?

With a resigned surrender

With aggressive violence

With courageous determination

With a weak retreat

3. To whom is Benjamin Lundy referring when he mentions the “slaveholding interest . . . now paramount in the Executive Branch”?

Martin Van Buren

Andrew Jackson

John Quincy Adams

James K. Polk

4. According to Lundy, why does the United States want to expand into Texas?

To give slave states more power

To spread abolition into Texas

To mine abundant gold and silver

To provide a buffer with Mexico

5. What do the two documents say about the United States in the early 1800s?

All Americans were on board with the annexation of Texas.

Most Texans opposed the Texas Revolution and annexation.

Many Americans had deep-rooted and divisive sectional loyalties.

Southerners opposed the annexation of Texas into the United States.

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