Spanish Missions
What was the main purpose of Spanish Missions?
What is to convert Native Americans to Catholicism and establish Spanish influence?
What was an empresario?
What was a land agent who recruited settlers to Texas?
What is a filibuster in Texas history?
What is someone who enters foreign territory to pursue unauthorized military or revolutionary activities?
Which government relied heavily on Catholic missions and military presidios to settle Texas?
What is the process of adopting another group's language, religion, and customs?
What is assimilation?
These military settlements protected missions and nearby settlers.
What are presidios?
Who is known as the Father of Texas?
Who is Stephen F. Austin?
Which filibuster led an expedition to Texas in 1819 and challenged Spanish authority?
Who is James Long?
Which system used empresarios and private land grants to encourage settlement?
What is the Mexican settlement method?
What is a land grant?
What is land awarded by a government for settlement or other purposes?
Name one activity that helped missions become self-sustaining.
What are farming, ranching, weaving, carpentry, or masonry?
What did Mexico's Federal Colonization Law of 1824 allow states to do?
What was to establish their own colonization rules, within federal guidelines?
What was the name of the 1819 agreement that defined the boundary between the United States and Spanish territory?
What is the Adams–Onís Treaty?
What was one primary goal of Spanish settlement?
What was to convert Native peoples and strengthen Spanish territorial control?
What does Tejano mean?
What is a Texan of Spanish or Mexican descent?
Who was a key Catholic missionary associated with early Texas missions?
Who is Fray Damián Massanet?
What was the purpose of the State Colonization Law of 1825?
Which revolution began in 1810 and eventually led to Mexico's independence from Spain?
What is the Mexican War of Independence?
Under Mexican settlement policies, who received land grants to recruit settlers?
Who are empresarios?
What type of government divides power between national and state governments?
What is a federal republic?
What was the purpose of the 1767 Rubí Report?
What was to recommend changes to Spanish Texas defenses and settlement, including reducing some missions and strengthening military protection?
Name one push factor and one pull factor that encouraged Anglo-American migration to Texas.
What are a push factor such as the Panic of 1819 and a pull factor such as inexpensive land or the chance to start over?
What did the Treaty of Córdoba in 1821 recognize?
What was Mexican independence from Spain?
What major change in government occurred when Mexico became independent in 1821?
What was the end of Spanish colonial rule and the beginning of Mexican rule?
What did the phrase 'GTT' mean to settlers heading to Texas?
What is 'Gone to Texas'?