HIST 2301 CH 4

By 1828, the empresario Stephen Austin had agreed to settle _________ families on his land.

1,200

In spite of the efforts in Mexican law and policy to discourage slavery, _______percent of the inhabitants of Texas were slaves.

10

Most settler families in Austin's colony received at least a sitio of land or ___________acres.

4,400

President Bustamante of Mexico changed the rules of immigration into Texas once again. The law of April 1830 contained all the following decrees EXCEPT:

All empresario contracts were suspended and settlers ordered to leave Texas.

While the style of government changed frequently in Mexico, the first emperor was

Augustin I (Iturbide).

The federalists won the argument over how Mexico should be governed with the Constitution of 1824. All of the following were factors in that document EXCEPT:

Clauses similar to the first ten amendments of the U. S. Constitution were incorporated.

Why was Stephen F. Austin concerned about the validity of his land grant?

It had been granted by Spain, not Mexico.

What was the significance of the Fredonian Rebellion?

Mexico became increasingly suspicious of all Anglo-Americans.

Why did Mexico fear Anglo-Americans after the Fredonian Rebellion?

Mexico believed the Anglo-Americans intended to join Texas to the United States.

In 1828, Mexican president Pegraza was deposed by Guerrero who was replaced by Bustamante. What was the significance of Bustamante's successful coup?

Mexico would become a military dictatorship.

All of the following were requirements for receiving land in Austin's colony EXCEPT:

Settlers must pay all duties on imports immediately after they occupied their lands.

The legislature of the combined state of Coahuila and Texas passed a law in 1825 governing settlement there. It included all the following EXCEPT:

Settlers were not permitted to bring slaves into the state.

Why weren't General Manuel Mier y Terán's recommendations carried out immediately?

The presidency in Mexico changed hands three times in that same year.

Why did so many Anglo-Americans come to Texas in the 1820s and 1830s?

They came because of the availability of free or cheap land in Texas.

Mexican policies with regard to slavery in Texas changed frequently with the result that all the following were included in those policies EXCEPT:

Under the Constitution of 1824, all settlers were ordered to immediately free all their slaves.

While Texas was under Mexican law, 4,428 acres of land in Texas probably cost less than

X $50. X $1.25 an acre $150.

When Benjamin Edwards and his men rode into Nacogdoches and declared the Republic of Fredonia

X Anglo-Americans and the resident Cherokee Indians refused to support them. all of the above.

General Manuel Mier y Terán was sent to survey eastern Texas and determine where forts should be placed. He was disturbed by all the following EXCEPT that the

X Anglo-Americans were shrewd, unruly, and demanding. Anglo-Americans were plotting the overthrow of Mexico.

While Mexico controlled the area of Texas, the population growth was highest among the

X European settlers not from the United States Anglo-Americans.

Why was Stephen Austin the only person to receive a grant under the Imperial Colonization Law?

X Iturbide was deposed as emperor thereby invalidating the law The law was repealed soon after Austin received his grant.

As a result of the new Mexican Constitution of 1824

X Texas was permitted to form her own government. the two Spanish provinces of Texas and Coahuila became a single state within Mexico.

After his tour of East Texas, Terán proposed that Mexico should do all the following EXCEPT:

X encourage the Swiss and Germans to immigrate. allow the Anglo settlers to govern themselves.

Austin arrived to establish his colony only to find that

X he had been assigned land in South Texas much farther from Louisiana than he had been promised. X his colonists were at war with each other over the various land claims each had been assigned. Mexico had won her independence from Spain and his contract might be invalid.

All the following are TRUE about daily life in Mexican Texas EXCEPT:

X most families grew just enough food for themselves. X there were no improved ports for importing goods X there were no banks and little money.

The empresario Martín de León

X received a grant of land and founded the town of Guadalupe Victoria. all of the above.

After the Mexican Revolution, when Mexico claimed the area of Texas, its greatest fear about Texas was that

X the French would attack and try to reclaim Texas. the Texans would revolt and join Texas to the United States.

All of the following competed for power within the new country of Mexico, EXCEPT:

a group of the very poor, the pobres, who desired a pure democracy

The Fredonian Rebellion began as

an argument over whether those who had occupied their lands for many years had to pay the new empresario for those lands.

After the empire of Iturbide collapsed, the wealthy hacendados, the caudillos, and clergy advocated this form of government.

centralist with the power at the center

The National Colonization Law of August 18, 1824 decreed that

foreigners were not to settle within ten leagues of the coast or twenty leagues of the international border.

Benjamin Lundy spent years trying to obtain a grant of land in Texas to create a settlement for

free blacks.