Vocabulary
Vocabulary 2
Stephen F. & Moses Austin
Texas Trivia & Stuff
Miscellaneous
100
A group of armed citizens who serve as soldiers during an emergency
What is a militia?
100
The legal right to own a piece of property
What is a title?
100
This happened when Moses Austin went to San Antonio in 1812
What is gained a contract as an empresario?
100
Governor of Texas
Who is Rick Perry?
100
This is how Mexico's colonization laws made settlers want to settle in Texas
What is offering land at low prices?
200
The work of cultivating the soil, producing crops, and raising livestock
What is agriculture?
200
A piece of land consisting of 4,428 acres
What is a sitio?
200
3 occupations Moses Austin had before he became an empresario
What is store keeper, mine operator, and banker?
200
The capital of Texas
What is Austin?
200
Fort St. Louis threatened the Spanish claim to Texas by....
What is showing that other countries were interested in Texas?
300
A person who has official permission to bring settlers to Texas
What is an empresario?
300
an official count of the population of the area
What is a census?
300
List one problem that Stephen F. Austin's new colony suffered from.
What is Native American attacks, drought, or long absence of leader?
300
After the Freedonian Rebellion, Mexican authorities wanted this.
What is a report on Texan's attitudes?
300
Mexicans did not want to colonize Texas because of this.
What is attacks from the Native Americans?
400
A land division within Texas created by the Mexican government
What is a department?
400
A person who buys a large area of land and sells pieces of it to others
What is a speculator?
400
This convention decided to send SFA to Mexico City
What is the Convention of 1833?
400
People who are not part of the military
What are civilians?
400
This European country had two colonies in Texas
What is Ireland?
500
An association of two or more people in a business venture
What is a partnership?
500
The first families to settle in Texas with Austin
What is the Old Three Hundred?
500
The state that the Austin's came from originally.
What is Missouri?
500
Was colonization a success or failure? Explain.
Success based on growth in population.
500
True or False....Mexico allowed Texas settlers to keep their slaves.
True
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