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A Mexican priest who gave the famous Grito de Dolores speech in 1810 asking for freedom and equal rights before leading an army of 50,000.
Who is Father Miguel Hidalgo?
Tried to stop filibuster activity in Texas and created societal divisions between the rich and poor.
Who is the Spanish Government?
Mexico officially won its independence from Spain in this year.
What is 1821?
Occurred in 1821 when rich and poor Mexicans united to defeat Spain and establish their own country.
What is Mexican Independence?
A proposal for independent Mexico promising freedom from Spain, making Catholicism the state religion, and granting equal rights to citizens.
What is the Plan of Igual?
The American businessman who first received permission to bring 300 U.S. families to Texas but died of an illness before starting the colony.
Who is Moses Austin?
Wrote the Constitution of 1824 and permitted U.S. immigrants to establish colonies in Texas.
Who is the Mexican Government?
The year that Mexico created a new constitution that set up an elected government and merged Texas with Coahuila.
What is 1824?
A document that established a republic, divided the government into 3 branches, and combined Texas and Coahuila into a single state.
What is the Mexican Constitution of 1824?
A land agent hired by the government to bring new families to settle in Texas.
What is an empresarios?
Known as the "Father of Texas," he brought the "Old Three Hundred" settlers to live between the Brazos and Colorado Rivers.
Who is Stephen F. Austin?
An American empresario who established a colony along the Guadalupe River in Gonzales, Texas.
Who is Green DeWitt?
Fought in August 1813 south of San Antonio, where the Spanish army defeated rebel forces, sparking a strong desire in Texas to end Spanish rule.
What is the Battle of Medina?
A legislation passed to invite settlers to Texas by providing large tracts of inexpensive land and 10 tax-free years.
What is the State Colonization Law of 1825?
The original group of Anglo-American families that Stephen F. Austin brought to settle in Texas for economic reasons.
What is the Old 300?
A San Antonio leader who helped Moses and Stephen F. Austin get permission to bring settlers to Texas
The only empresario to encourage Mexican migration, bringing Mexican families to settle near Victoria, Texas.
Who is Martin de Leon?
Mexico passed a colonization law offering cheap land and a 10-year tax exemption to encourage settlers in this year.
Africans brought to Texas by Anglo-Americans to cultivate cotton.
Who are slaves?
The official Mexican state created in 1824 by combining Texas and Coahuila.
What is Coahuila y Tejas?
Led fighters into Texas to gain independence from Spain, capturing La Bahia and Nacogdoches before losing a major battle.
Who is José Gutiérrez de Lara?
An American doctor angered by a treaty giving Texas to Spain, who led a group into Texas, declared it independent, and was later captured and killed.
Who is Dr. James Long?
Who is....?
Act requiring settlers to become Mexican citizens, convert to Catholicism, and be of good moral character in exchange for cheap land and 10 tax-free years.