Mission Impossible
This is the type of fortified military outpost the Spanish built to protect priests and settlers from attacks.
What is a presidio
Mexico officially gained its independence from this European empire in the year 1821.
What is Spain?
This man is called the "Father of Texas" for fulfilling his father's dream of bringing the first Anglo-American colonies to Texas soil.
Who is Stephen F. Austin?
This minor 1826 rebellion in Nacogdoches, where Haden Edwards declared a short-lived independent republic, deeply alarmed the Mexican government.
What is the Fredonian Rebellion?
This Texas city, established in 1718, grew out of the mission-presidio system and became the largest and most important Spanish military hub in the province.
What is San Antonio de Bexar?
This famous San Antonio mission, originally known as San Antonio de Valero, was built to serve as a halfway point between East Texas and the Rio Grande.
What is the Alamo.
Under the Mexican Federal Constitution of 1824, Texas was combined with this neighboring region to form one large Mexican state.
What is Coahuila? (The state was Coahuila y Tejas)
This is the nickname given to the original 300 Anglo families who first settled in Stephen F. Austin’s colony along the Brazos River.
What are the Old Three Hundred?
This Mexican general conducted a famous inspection tour of Texas in 1828 and warned that Anglo settlers were completely ignoring Mexican laws.
Who is Manuel de Mier y Teran?
These are the specific two Texas rivers between which Stephen F. Austin chose to locate his original colony due to the fertile farming soil.
What are the Brazos and Colorado Rivers?
This invisible threat brought by European priests and soldiers killed a massive percentage of American Indians living inside the missions.
What are European diseases (like smallpox or measles)?
This political philosophy, favored by Anglo settlers, distributes power between a central national government and individual states.
What is Federalism?
This prominent Mexican empresario founded the town of Victoria and settled families who were mostly of Mexican or Tejano descent.
Who is Martin de Leon?
Passed in response to the Mier y Terán report, this strict piece of legislation banned all further U.S. immigration and placed customs taxes on U.S. imports.
What is the Law of April 6, 1830
This term refers to Texas residents of Mexican heritage who maintained deep cultural roots in the region and often navigated tensions between Anglo settlers and the Mexican government.
What are Tejanos?
This 1813 battle fought during early Mexican independence movements is known as the bloodiest battle in Texas history.
What is the Battle of Medina?
This was the official, mandated religion that all settlers moving to Mexican Texas were legally required to practice.
What is Roman Catholic?
This English term refers to a land agent whose job was to recruit settlers, divide up land plots, and enforce Mexican laws in their colony.
In this 1832 document, angry Texan colonists at Anahuac stated they were not rebelling against Mexico, but rather supporting the federalist Santa Anna.
What are the Turtle Bayou Resolutions?
This historic East Texas town was a major gateway into Texas from Louisiana and was the site of both the Old Stone Fort and the Fredonian Rebellion.
What is Nacogdoches?
This Spanish explorer and Franciscan priest is known as the "Father of lower Texas missions" after he helped establish the first Spanish mission in East Texas (San Francisco de los Tejas) in 1690.
Who is Father Damian Massanet?
This 1823 Mexican colonization law—passed under the short-lived regime of Emperor Agustín de Iturbide—granted Stephen F. Austin permission to settle his first colony and exempted his settlers from paying taxes for six years.
What is the Imperial Colonization Law?
This empresario's colony near Gonzales was highly successful, but his settlers later had to fight to keep a small brass cannon given to them for defense.
Who is Green DeWitt?
This centralist Mexican military commander at Anahuac enraged Texan settlers by illegally arresting William B. Travis and refusing to return runaway enslaved people.
Who is Juan Davis Bradburn?
This South Texas town on the Guadalupe River was founded in 1824 by empresario Martín de León and served as the primary cultural and economic center for Tejano ranching families.
What is Victoria?