People
This person finished his fathers wish to set up a colony in Texas
Stephen F. Austin
Texas was once part of which Mexican state?
Coahuila
This was the year Mexico finally gained independence from Spain
1821
An adventurer who engages in private rebellious activity in a foreign country
Filibuster
The movement of people to settle in another place
Immigration
This person was an American businessman who had a dream of moving to Texas and setting up an American colony
Moses Austin
Why was Moses Austin not able to fulfill his dream of colonizing Texas?
He died of pneumonia
This was the year that the Mexican Constitution was written
1824
An agent who makes all the arrangements to bring settlers to a colony
Empresario
The unique cultural blending of Spanish and American traditions in Texas
Tejano
This person ended slavery in Mexico in 1829 and was Mexico's first black president
Vicente Guerrero
Stephen F. Austin
This is the year Father Miguel Hidalgo called for Mexican Independence from Spain
1810
Constitution
A forcible overthrow of a government
Revolution
These people came to Texas as an Empresario and set up a colony after Stephen F. Austin
Green DeWitt & Martin De Leon
What was Stephen F. Austin's first group of settlers called
The Old Three Hundred
1803
State sponsored settlement of people to new territories
Colonization
A grant of public land
Land Grant
Name ONE Filibuster that caused problems for Spanish Mexico
Philip Nolan
Augustus Magee
James Long
Jean Lafitte
What were the three requirements to become a Mexican citizen
2. Speak Spanish
3. Convert to Catholicism
1823
Adding territory to existing territory
Annexation
A way of organizing a political system in which a single authority has power and control over the entire system
Centralism