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Remembering the Alamo

Quiz by Dawn Tate

Grade 4
Social Studies K-HS (Archived)
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)

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  • Q1
    1. Why did the Spanish go to Mexico?
    B: to establish a fort and a mission
    A: to convert the natives to Christianity
    D to search for gold
    C to create a new government
    30s
    113.15.b.3.A
  • Q2
    2. President Santa Anna was able to _______________
    A: keep Texas as part of Mexico
    B: win the battle for the Alamo
    D: prevent his troops from dying in the Alamo battle
    C: take all the gold from the Alamo
    30s
    113.15.b.3.A
  • Q3
    3. What was the main reason Texans did not support President Santa Anna?
    B: He became a dictator.
    C: He taxed them too much.
    A: He wouldn’t let them have weapons.
    D: He outlawed slavery.
    30s
    113.15.b.3.B
  • Q4
    4. What does siege mean?
    B: to look closely at
    C: to abandon
    D: to attack
    A: to make enemies of
    30s
    113.15.b.3.B
  • Q5
    5. Why were so many Texans killed at the Alamo?
    B: They were outnumbered.
    A: They had no weapons.
    D: All of the above
    C: They couldn’t speak Spanish.
    30s
  • Q6
    6. Defiant means _________________.
    C: to move into a territory
    D: to take over a country
    B: to resist an enemy
    A: to cooperate
    30s
  • Q7
    7. President Santa Anna was not killed by Sam Houston because _____________________.
    D: he agreed to pay money for the damage and turn over the Alamo
    A: he said he would leave Mexico and return to Spain
    C: he recognized Texas’s independence and took his troops out
    B: he agreed to join Houston’s army and fight the Mexicans
    30s
    113.15.b.3.A
  • Q8
    8. Why would few additional troops have been able to come to the aid of Colonel Travis and his men at the Alamo?
    B: Everyone supported the Mexicans.
    A: They didn’t know they needed help.
    C: It was too dangerous to get in.
    D: They couldn’t find the Alamo.
    30s
  • Q9
    9. The U.S. leaders wanted settlers to live in Texas to _______________.
    C: kick out the Tejanos
    D: expand the United States
    A: find gold
    B: control the river
    30s
  • Q10
    10. How would the Texan soldiers have felt while Santa Anna and his troops were attacking them at the Alamo?
    C: like a cat sleeping peacefully in the sun
    D: like a skier who had just taken a jump
    A: like a lion was breathing down their necks
    B: like a football team who had just scored
    30s

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