Mexican Colonization and the Empresario System

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Mexican National (7.1A)

Characterized by the Anglo colonization of Texas with the empresario system following the establishment of Mexico as independent from Spain and the creation of the Mexican Constitution of 1824

Long Expedition (7.2D)

Dr. James Long led a group from Mississippi to Nacogdoches where he declared Texas independent from Spain.

Purposes for settlement in Texas: Anglo (7.2F)

Economic opportunities - large farms to grow cash crops and small businesses, New start, Escape debt and Empresarios grants

Purposes for settlement in Texas: Mexican (7.2F)

Economic opportunities - large ranches and small businesses Civil settlements and empresarios grants

Battle of Medina (7.2D)

Fought August 18, 1813, along the Medina River south of San Antonio between the republican forces of the Gutiérrez-Magee expedition and the Spanish royalist army

Galveston Pirates (7.2D)

Jean Lafitte and other pirates attacked Spanish ships

State Colonization Law of 1825 (7.2D)

Law that set up guidelines for the colonization of Coahuila y Texas and allowed Stephen F. Austin and other empresarios to receive land grants in Texas

José Gutiérrez de Lara (7.2D)

Leader of the Mexican Republican Army of the North and opposed Spanish Rule, Supported several filibuster expeditions and first Governor of Mexican Texas

1821 (7.1B)

Mexico's independence from Spain

Erasmo Seguin (7.2E)

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

Purposes for settlement in Texas: Spanish (7.2F)

To lay claim to Texas and Missions, presidios, and civil settlements

Martin De Leon (7.2E)

a Mexican empresario who settled 200 Mexican families in South Texas (between the Lavaca and Guadalupe River). He and his wife founded the town of Victoria in 1824

Philip Nolan (7.2D)

a filibuster from the United States that was sent to Texas with Spanish approval

Revolution

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

land grant

a grant of public land, especially to an institution, organization, or to particular groups of people

filibuster

an adventurer who engages in private rebellious activity in a foreign country

empresario

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

Green DeWitt (1831) (7.2E)

an important American empresario who settled 166 families in the area near present-day Gonzales

Father Miguel Hidalgo (7.2D)

credited with sparking the Mexican War for Independence. Student of the Enlightenment was a champion of the poor and indigenous populations in Mexico

Stephen F. Austin (1821) (7.2E)

first American to recruit and settle Americans in Texas/Mexico. He settled 300 families and was known as an empresario. This led to the colonization by other American settlers in Texas/Mexico.

Moses Austin (1820) (7.2E)

first American to work with the Spanish government to settle Americans in Texas

Annexation

incorporation by joining or uniting

Gutierrez-Magee Expedition (7.2D)

organized the Republic of the north and proclaimed Texas independent of Spain, but were defeated. It encouraged others to free Texas and Mexico from Spanish rule

Merger of Texas and Coahuila as a state (7.2D)

stated in the Mexican Federal Constitution of 1824

Colonization

the action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area

Constitution

the basic written set of principles and precedents of government

immigration

the movement of people from one place to settle in another place

Tejano

the unique cultural blending of Spanish and American traditions in Texas

Mexican Federal Constitution of 1824 (7.2D)

written after Mexico's independence from Spain and Created the state of Coahuila y Tejas, merging the two provinces


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