The Empresario System
Who started the Texas Venture?
Answer: Who is Moses Austin?
Who took over the Texas Venture after Moses Austin died?
Answer: Who is Stephen F. Austin?
What was the Imperial Colonization Law of 1823?
Answer: A law that made land grants official.
What was the Fredonian Rebellion?
Answer: A rebellion led by Haden Edwards against the Mexican government.
What were the main towns in Texas by 1828?
Answer: San Antonio de Béxar, Goliad, La Bahía, and Nacogdoches.
What did Moses Austin want to do in Texas?
Answer: He wanted to bring 300 families to settle there.
What important permission did Stephen F. Austin get in 1821?
Answer: He got permission to bring families to Texas.
How much land could each family get under the State Colonization Law of 1825?
Answer: A league of land, about 4,428 acres.
What did General Mier y Terán report about Anglo settlers?
Answer: There were more Anglo settlers than Tejanos.
What did the Conventions of 1832 and 1833 ask for?
Answer: They asked for Texas to become a separate state.
Who helped Moses Austin with his plan?
Answer: Who is Baron de Bastrop?
What did Austin explain to the settlers about land?
Answer: How the land would be shared and what settlers needed to do.
Who was Martin De León?
Answer: An empresario who helped bring families to Texas.
What was the Law of April 6, 1830?
Answer: A law that stopped American immigration to Texas.
Who was Santa Anna?
Answer: The president of Mexico during the conflicts in Texas.
What was the purpose of the Empresario System?
Answer: To encourage American families to settle in Texas.
What did Stephen F. Austin build to help the colony?
Answer: What is San Felipe de Austin?
What did settlers usually do for a living in Texas?
Answer: They farmed, especially growing cotton.
What happened in Anahuac in 1832?
Answer: Disagreements between settlers and Colonel Bradburn over runaway slaves.
Why did Anglo settlers want to keep their enslaved workers?
Answer: They believed slavery was necessary for cotton farming.
What was one problem faced by Austin in starting the colony?
Answer: He had money problems in Missouri.
Why is Stephen F. Austin called “The Father of Texas”?
Answer: Because of his important work in starting the colony.
What caused fights over land in Texas?
Answer: Disagreements between empresarios like Green DeWitt and Martin De León.
What were the Turtle Bayou Resolutions?
Answer: A declaration opposing the Mexican government's actions.
What was one effect of Santa Anna’s centralism on Texas?
Answer: It caused more problems with Anglo settlers and increased unrest.