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Taxes and Immigration
Potpourri 2
Short Answer
100
This is a tax placed on goods coming into a country.
What is a duty?
100
This is a disease caused by mosquitoes implanting parasites in the blood.
What is malaria?
100
Name three resolutions that the delegates made during the Convention of 1832.
1) Delegates asked that Texas be made a separate Mexican state. 2) Delegates asked that immigration from the U.S. be allowed. 3) Delegates asked that Texas be exempt from import taxes for a period of three years.
200
Though he refused to grant Texas statehood, Santa Anna agreed to repeal part of the law restricting this.
What is immigration from the U.S.?
200
As a result of the opening of Texas to new settlers, more crops were grown, more trade developed, and the population of Texas did this.
What is grew?
200
Name three problems that were facing Mexico City when Stephen F. Austin arrived there in 1833.
1) Santa Anna's government was not yet organized. 2) A cholera epidemic was sweeping the city. 3) Santa Anna was away from the city.
300
This term refers to the buying and selling of goods and services
What is commerce?
300
Austin approved of the Consultation because he thought Santa Anna was becoming this.
What is a dictator?
300
Name the six key points of the Law of April 6, 1830.
1) It outlawed immigration from the United States. 2) It cancelled incomplete land grants with empresarios. 3) It encouraged immigration of Mexicans and Europeans to Texas. 4) It forbade enslaved people from being brought into Mexico 5) It established new forts. 6) It added taxes to all foreign goods entering Texas.
400
This term means to recall or to do away with a law.
What is repeal?
400
This is a person who buys land with the hope of selling it for a large profit.
What is a land speculator?
500
He toured Texas for the Mexican government in order to recommend new policies.
Who is Manuel de Mier y Terán?
500
He moved a large force into Texas to arrest those he considered disloyal to Santa Anna.
Who is General Cós?