Growing State
New Texans
German in Texas
Other Immigrants
Critical Thinking
100
A system under which a person applied for a plot of land
What is Land Grant System?
100
The states Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina
What are the states of the upper south?
100
People of high rank or title
What is a noble?
100
This term is used when ones customs and habits are changed to those of the surrounding culture.
What is assimilate?
100
These were items Henri Castro provided to help his settlers.
What is medicine, cows, farm tools, seeds, along with other necessities?
200
To leave one's country or region and move to another
What is Emigrate?
200
This term was used in the freeing of slaves
What is manumission?
200
This word defines an ideal community, where residents intend to share the work and the property.
What is Utopia?
200
This French Empresario helped settle hundreds of people, mostly from Alsace, near San Antonio.
Who is Henri Castro?
200
Poles immigrated to Texas for this reason.
What is fleeing war and revolution in there home country?
300
These people agreed to settle a number of other people in a short period of time in exchange for grants of land
What is Empresario?
300
The states South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana are all a part of the
What is lower south?
300
Group of immigrants who founded the town of Serbin
Who are the Wends?
300
This region is on the border of France and Germany.
What is Alsace?
300
This Irish author wrote the "The Rise, Progress, and Prospects of Texas", which in return encouraged some people to immigrate to Texas.
Who is William Kennedy?
400
This number represents how many settlers had landed in Texas by 1850
What is 212,000?
400
This business man founded a colony in the area of present day Dallas
Who is William S. Peter?
400
This Germans letters to his home country inspired other Germans to move to Texas.
Who is Johann Friedrich Ernst?
400
Utopian community founded near present day Dallas.
What is La Reunion?
400
This is the main reason that Europeans immigrated to Texas.
What is escape war and lack of economic opportunities in their homelands?
500
These events in the United States led some people to immigrate to Texas
What is Depression, Panic of 1837?
500
This state provided many of the settlers for peters colony
What is Kentucky?
500
This organization was founded by German nobles to settle Germans in Texas
What is the Adelsverein?
500
This gentleman was the first Swedish immigrant to Texas, who helped bring other Swedes to the state.
Who is Swante Magnus Swenson?
500
In 1850 there were ________ Texans of Mexican origin.
What is 14,000?
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