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What is an adventurer who engages in private rebellious activity in a foreign country
What is a filibuster?
He was the 1st person who settled an Anglo (WHITE) colony in Texas.
Who is Stephen F. Austin?
American & Mexican Settlers came to Mexican Texas for this.
What is Cheap land?
What did Anglo settlers bring to Texas that caused Controversy between them and Mexican Government?
What is slaves?
He was known as the "Father of Texas."
Who is Stephen F. Austin?
French Pirate who controlled Galveston bay and refused to help Dr. James Long
Who is Jean Lafitte?
Stephen F Austin put together milita to help against the Native American attacks called the.
Who are the Texas Rangers?
In the Mexican federal constitution of 1824, what was not allowed?
What is freedom of religion (had to be catholic)
What battle ended with the defeat of the Guiterrez-Magee Expedition
What is the Battle of Medina?
What treaty between Mexico and the US established the East Texas Border that we still have today
What is the Adams Onis Treaty??
Captured Nacogdoches, delcared Texas Independent, and was later captured and killed in a Mexican prison in 1822.
Who is Dr. James Long?
Mexican Empresario who brought ONLY Mexican Settlers to Texas.
Who is Martin De Leon?
In what region did most empresarios and settlers live?
Coastal Plain( Great for farming, lots of water)
What happened in the year of 1825?
What is the Mexican Colonization laws
Why is 1821 is a significant date in Texas's history.
Mexico won its independence from Spain
He was suspected of plotting to claim land in Texas for the United States and many thought he was a spy. H e was really capturing wild horses for profit.
Who is Philip Nolan?
He established the town of Gonzales.
Who is Green DeWitt?
Anglo and Spanish colonization were different in Texas how?
Anglo settlers followed empresarios, Spanish settlers were more interested in establishing missions and converting native Americans.
What started or sparked the Mexican Revolution
What is Father Hidalgos speech, the "cry of dolores"
This sale between the United States and the France in 1803 that gave the US a large amount of land is the
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Who was a Tejano rancher who represented Texas at the Mexican Constitutional Convention?
Who is Erasmo Seguin
Mexican Officials tried to maintain Mexican cultures in Texas by establishing what three requirements for the Empresario system?
1. They had to be Roman Catholic
2. They had to be loyal Mexican Citizens
3. They had to live on the land
The establishment of Anglo settlements in Texas is known as what Era?
What is the Mexican National Era?
What rebel group was formed to continue the rebellion started by Father Hidalgo after this death?
Who is Gutierrez-Magee Expedition?
Why did the Mexican government give the empresarios land grants only in east and central Texas?
What is so the Anglo settlers could act as a buffer(neutral zone) between Mexico and the United States.