Vocabulary
An adventurer who engages in private rebellious activity in a foreign country.
What is a filibuster?
Mexico united Texas with this state to form Coahuila y Tejas.
What is Coahuila?
Father Miguel Hidalgo issued ___ to start the Mexican Revolution
What is the Grito de Dolores?
This 1803 land deal doubled the size of the U.S.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The “Father of Texas.”
Who is Stephen F. Austin?
An agent who brings settlers to a colony.
What is an empresario?
Mexican colonization law of 1824 limited settlement near this place.
What is the coast (30 miles) or an international boundary (60 miles)?
This man led settlers back to East Texas to found Nacogdoches in 1779 after the Kings inspector ordered everyone to move to San Antonio and Goliad.
Who is Gil Y’Barbo
This treaty set the Texas border at the Sabine River.
What is the Adams-Onís Treaty?
The first man to gain permission from Spain to bring Anglo settlers.
Who is Moses Austin?
The movement of people from one place to another to settle.
What is immigration?
The 1825 colonization law gave single men thousands of acres provided they ____
What is Marrying a Mexican Woman
This 1813 battle south of San Antonio was a disaster for Texas rebels fighting for the Republican Army of the North.
What is the Battle of Medina?
The territory between Spanish Texas and the U.S. was declared this in 1806.
What is the Neutral Ground?
This empresario founded a colony of 41 Mexican families near the Texas coast.
Who is Martín De León?
The cultural blending of Spanish and American traditions in Texas.
What is a Tejano?
This group of people were the main settlers of Mexican Texas
what is Anglo-Americans
He was the pirate who briefly controlled Galveston Island.
Who is Jean Lafitte?
Mexico began as a nation with 19___ and 4____.
What is a State? What is a Territory?
He received permission to bring 400 families but failed to meet his goal.
Who is Green DeWitt?
Permission to settle a territory given to a settler by the government.
What is a land grant?
Name two requirements for Austin’s settlers.
What are be Catholic and become Mexican citizens?
The last major filibuster, he declared Texas independent in 1819.
Who is James Long?
The treaty that officially recognized Mexico’s independence from Spain in 1821.
What is the Treaty of Córdoba?
Austin’s original colony was located between these two rivers.
What are the Colorado and Brazos Rivers?