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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Houston request of the U.S. government?
(a) Relief from taxation.
(b) Money.
(c) Land.
(d) Nation status.

2. Texas annexation was defeated in Congress in which year?
(a) 1844.
(b) 1842.
(c) 1848.
(d) 1846.

3. Houston rode to ____ to attempt to head off and halt the expedition team.
(a) Bucksnort.
(b) Sunshine Hill.
(c) Indianola.
(d) Refugio.

4. Houston received an appointment to serve as a _____ in the Tennessee militia.
(a) General.
(b) Colonel.
(c) Major.
(d) Captain.

5. In which state did Sam Houston live as a child?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Virginia.
(d) North Carolina.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the position that Houston offered to the soldier?

2. What subject did Houston want to study at a "proper" academy?

3. Houston started a plantation at which site?

4. Sam Houston was descended from which group of immigrants?

5. Who served as the Secretary of State in that administration?

(see the answer key)

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