Sections 1 & 2
To help people rebuild, the ____________ gave land to many of the people who had lived in Texas before the Revolution.
Constitution of 1836
Many __________ were drawn to the Republic because the Constitution of 1836 ensured that slavery was legal.
Slaveholders
In 1838 a group of Tejanos in Nacogdoches led by _____________ reacted to this poor treatment.
Vicente Córdova
In 1842 a group of German businesspeople formed the German Emigration Company also called what?
Adelsverein
Who replaced Prince Carl after returning home two months later?
Baron Otfried Hans Freiherr von Meusebach
Hoping to encourage immigration, the Republic of Texas set up a land grant policy modeled after the _______________.
Empresario System
Even veterans of the Texas Revolution like ___________ risked being forced to leave.
Greenbury Logan
With a small group of Tejano and Indian allies, he took up arms in the _____________.
Córdova Rebellion
After acquiring land in the Hill Country, the company sent ___________________ to Texas in 1844 followed by a group of peasants and craftspeople. He wrote letters home about his mission.
Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels
In Texas, the baron changed his name to ____________. He continued the work begun by Prince Carl, and New Braunfels grew and prospered.
John O. Meusebach
From 1836 to 1847, the population of Texas increased by nearly _______.
100,000
Congress passed the __________, which allowed the Ashworths and all free African Americans who were in Texas at the time of the Texas Declaration of Independence to stay.
Ashworth Act
A few held positions of power in the San Antonio area, such as ______________, a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence.
José Antonio Nava
The port, which was called __________ by the Germans, was later renamed Indianola.
Karlshafen
In 1840 Texas and France signed a treaty that encouraged French immigration. A few years later, _____ _______ brought one of the first groups of French settlers to Texas.
Henri Castro
By far the largest group of new immigrants to the Republic came from the ____________ in search of land and economic opportunities.
United States
____________, who had helped negotiate with the Cherokees during the war, was one example. A wealthy business owner, he had to deal with repeated attempts by other townspeople to take his property. Although he had the resources to challenge his persecutors in court, other free African Americans did not.
William Goyens
The largest group of European immigrants to Texas were the ________, who had first come in the early 1830s.
Germans
The port, which was called Karlshafen by the Germans, was later renamed what?
Indianola
Irish empresario, ______ ________ had accompanied Stephen F. Austin on his first trip to Texas in 1821.
James Hewetson
With the increase in U.S. immigration, the number of slaves in Texas rose from some 5,000 in 1836 to at least ______ by 1845.
30,000
___________, a hero of the revolution and mayor of San Antonio from 1840 to 1842, witnessed several conflicts between Tejanos and U.S. settlers.
Juan Seguín
By 1847 the what company had sent more than 7,000 immigrants to Texas?
German Emigration Company
In March 1845 the prince and a group of settlers established ___________ along the Guadalupe and Comal Rivers.
New Braunfels
Irish-born Texan, ____________ encouraged this immigration in his 1841 book, Texas: The Rise, Progress, and Prospects of the Republic of Texas.
William Kennedy