TRUE OR FALSE?

1. General Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana proved to be one of the most able of the early presidents of Mexico. 2. After independence, Mexicans in the northern frontier states were supporters of centralism. 3. The most famous of the empresarios in Texas was Martin De Leon, who founded Victoria. 4. Texas and northern Mexico had very little to do with the Atlantic economy after 1820. 5. Mexicans and Texans benefited from the Atlantic trade because they exported mineral wealth, livestock, and livestock byproducts, such as hides, skins, and bones in great quantities, while at the same time they acquired machinery and consumer goods. 6. Erasmo Seguin of Texas helped to write the Constitution of 1824 under which Coahuila y Tejas were one state in Mexico. 7. The strategic importance of California to the economic and political elites of the U.S. became first known at the time of the gold rush. 8. Hispanic women enjoy greater legal rights to property in the Southwest than in other parts of the United States, a legacy of Spain and Mexico. 9. Tejano Legacy asserts that conflict was omnipresent between Mexicans and Anglos throughout the second half of the 19th century. 10. Protestants made very few converts among Mexicans in the Southwest after 1848 mainly because of their approach to conversion. 11. Some Native Americans, such as the Luisenos and Juanenos maintained their identity in southern California despite two conquests. 12. Among Hispanics, remarriage was quite common following the death of one spouse. 13. While a nuclear family was the norm for Hispanics in the Southwest, there were some extended families. 14. Particle inheritance was a very old legal right that led to the division and subdivision of land grants that over time resulted in the creation of small ranchos.