Empresario and Pre Revolution Study Guide

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Empresario and Pre Revolution Study Guide

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1. Why did many settlers move to Texas in the early 1800’s? ______

2. What was the purpose of the Turtle Bayou Resolutions?

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3. Who was the President of Mexico?______

4. Which law banned immigration from the U.S. into Texas, stopped settlers from bringing slaves, and canceled many empresario contracts? ______

5. What is an empresario?______

6. Many people already living on an empresario’s land grant were known as what?______

7. When was the Mexican Constitution written?______

8. Who and what caused the Fredonian Rebellion?______

9. Who were the “Old 300”?______

10. What region of Texas were many of the land grants in Texas located? Why?______

11. What were some requirements of the Colonization Laws of 1825?______

12. What was the purpose for Spanish settlement?______

13. What was the purpose for Mexican settlement?______

14. What was the purpose for Anglo settlement?

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15. What era of Texas history do empresarios belong?______

16. What happened in the year, 1821?______

17. Why did Moses Austin bring his family to Texas?______

18. What happened to Stephen F. Austin, when he met with government officials in Mexico City in 1833?______

Use the word bank below to identify the following people

19. ______Known as the “Father of Texas” founded the first significant colony in Texas. He brought over the “Old 300”.

20.______The two brothers who declared the republic of Fredonia, free from Mexican rule. It was later known as the Fredonian Rebellion.

21. ______He was from Missouri and received a land grant to settle 400 families. His colony was in the town of Gonzales, along the coastal plains of Texas.

22. ______He was born in Mexico and had experience as a military officer. He was the only empresario to colonize mostly Mexican settlers. Victoria was the town of his main settlement.

23. ______He asked the Spanish government for approval to settle people in Texas in 1820, because Mexico had not gained their independence from Spain yet.

24. ______He helped Stephen F. Austin establish a colony of Anglo Americans. He also served as a Texas representative to congress that wrote the Mexican Constitution of 1824.

25. A Federalist believed that who should control the government?______

26. A Centralist believed that who should control the government?______

27. What was the law that angered many Texans?______

28. What were three requirements for people to settle in Texas?

I.______II.______III.______

29. Under the Mexican Constitution of 1824, what newly created states was created?______

30. What year did Mexico abolish slavery?______

31. What year did it become illegal to important slaves into Texas? ______