7th Grade: Mexican Colonization and the Empresario System

Stephen F. Austin

"Father of Texas". 1st empresario to start an Anglo-American colony in Texas.

Anglo-American

A white person living in the United States

José Gutiérrez de Lara and Augustus McGee

Created the Republican Army Traveled in the Gutierrez-McGee Expedition to fight for independence Lost in the Battle of Medina, but were inspired to keep fighting & declare Galveston free.

National Colonization Laws

Determined how Texas would be ruled. It stated that those wishing colonization contracts should make arrangements with the legislatures of individual states and not the federal government.

Moses Austin

Father of SFA; received permission to bring the first Anglo settlers to Texas.

Battle of Medina

Fought on August 18, 1813 along the Medina River south of San Antonio between the republican forces of the Gutierrez-Magee expedition and the Spanish Royal army. The Republican army lost miserably, but it encouraged others to participate in the revolution.

Two famous filibusters-

James Long and Philip Nolen

Gutierrez Magee expedition

José Bernardo Gutiérrez and Augustus Magee proclaimed Texas independent of Spain, but were defeated.

James Long

Last major filibuster who came to help free Tejas of Spanish rule.

State Colonization Law of 1825

Law passed that further opened Texas to settlement and immigration. New settlers had to promise to follow Mexican law, convert to Catholicism and "to display sound moral principles and good conduct."

Annexation

Legally adding land area to a city in the United States

Mexican National Period

Mexico wins independence from Spain and rules Texas, 1821.

MEXICAN SETTLEMENT OF TEXAS- Influential people

Moses Austin Stephen F. Austin Erasmo Seguin Martin De Leon Green DeWitt (1831)

Empresario Contracts

México invited US people over by giving them __________________________, and these Invite businessmen to recruit people - Created a buffer between Comanche Indian raiders and Mexico

Father Hidalgo

Priest who started Mexican independence from colonial Spanish in 1811. Ten years before Mexico got their independence.

Anglo reasons for and methods of settlement in Texas.

Purpose - Economic opportunities of large farms to grow cash crops and small businesses; increase the population of Texas; new start; escape debt Method - Empresario grants

Mexican reasons for and methods of settlement in Texas.

Purpose - Economic opportunities of large ranches and small businesses; increase the population of Northern Mexico Methods - Civil settlements and empresario grants

Spanish reason for and methods of settlement in Texas.

Spanish To lay claim to Texas for Spain; acquire gold, silver, and resources using missions.

peninsulares

Spanish-born; ruled, highest social class

Erasamo Seguin

Tejano rancher who represented Texas at the Mexican Constitutional convention; located land for the Austin Colony and supported Texas independence

Merger stated in the Mexican Federal Constitution of 1824

Texas and Coahuila joined as a state, Texas was not organized as a separate state because of its small population.

Mexican Constitution of 1824

The constitution written after Mexico became independent from Spain in 1821. It formed a Federal Republic form of government.

The Old 300

The name given to Stephen F. Austin's first 300 settlers in his new colony, in Texas.

Why did the Mexican government pass colonization laws for Texas?

To have incentives for Anglo colonists to settle Texas and Coahuila

Philip Nolan

a filibuster from the United States that was sent to Texas with Spanish approval, but Spain was suspicious of the U.S. taking control of Texas

Revolution

a forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system.

land grant

a grant of land by the federal government, especially for roads, railroads, or agricultural colleges

Tejano

a person of Mexican descent living in Texas

filibuster

an adventurer who engages in a private rebellious activity in a foreign- ex. Philip Nolan & James Long

empresario

an agent who makes all arrangements to bring settlers to a colony

Jane Long

known as the "Mother of Texas"

immigrant

someone who moves to a new country to settle.