Texas Empresarios
Name the five empresarios we have studied.
Moses Austin, Stephen F. Austin, Erasamo Seguin, Green DeWitt and Martin DeLeon
What were the first settlers in Texas called?
Who are the old three hundred?
Which religion did the new Mexican government name as the accepted religion of that land?
What is Catholicism?
Why did people build colonies near bodies of water?
Why is so they travel by water, drinking water, water crops?
What is the raising of plants and animals for food called?
What is agriculture?
Who was the first Empresario?
Who is Moses Austin?
What were the original documents that gave land to the settlers called?
What are land grants?
What speech helped begin a revolution?
What is the Grito de Dolores?
SFA persuaded the Mexican government to pass laws that would help people move to Texas. These laws started the what?
What is Texas Fever?
What is an area of land given by the government to individuals?
What is a land grant?
Who is a person who received land as a gift by the Mexican Government and could sell it to others?
Who is an Empresario?
How did the empresario system help Texas to grow?
Ecouraging families to settle and farm the land.
Who wrote the Grito de Dolores?
Who is Father Miguel Hidalgo?
Who does the old three hundred refer to?
The original settlers.
What is it called when one nation establishes its presence in another region of the world?
What is colonization?
Who was the first Mexican empresario in Texas?
Who is Martin De Leon?
What year did Mexico win its indpendene?
What is 1821?
Three types of settlements built by the Spanish in Texas were?
What are missions, presidios, towns?
What is the system that allowed people to bring families to Texas in exchange for the land was called the _____________system?
What is the empresario system?
"The usually violent attempt of many people to end rule by one government in order to create a new one"
What is the Revolution?
Who was the father of Texas?
Who was Stephen F. Austin?
What is a Texan with a Mexican ancestor called?
Who is a Tejano?
What type of government did Spain have?
What is a monarchy?
Why did people want to move to Texas?
People wanted to move to Texas causse of the new democratic government set up by the constitution of 1824.
"Powers that are reserved to state governments instead of the federal government"
What are State Rights?