Unit 4: Mexican National Period

San Felipe de Austin

Capital of Austin's colony

Saltillo

Capital of Coahuila y Tejas

Slavery

Cause for the African American population increase during the Mexican National Era

cash crop in Texas that most Anglo-Americans grew for $$$

Cotton

3 requirements of Anglo colonists

Display good conduct, convert to Catholicism, become Mexican Citizen

Problems faced by Austin's Colony

Drought forces settlers to leave, settlers had land disputes, attacks by the Karankawa and Tonkawa Indians

Baron de Bastrop

Dutch businessman who helped Moses Austin and Stephen F. Austin establish a colony in 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. Spain destroyed the Republican Army of the North and put a halt to the Revolution

Jose Gutierrez de Lara

Founder and leader of the Republican Army of the North and fought for Mexican Independence

4 Main Empresarios

Green DeWitt, Martin de Leon, Stephen F. Austin, Moses Austin

Green DeWitt

He is known as the 2nd most successful empresario; he established the town of Gonzales; and his colony became prosperous in farming & ranching.

Reasons Anglos wanted to leave the US for Texas

Land was expensive, recession in the US, people were in debt

State Colonization Law of 1825

Law passed by the state government of Coahuila y Texas that further opened Texas to settlement and immigration.

1821

Mexico gains independence from Spain and Stephen F Austin gets his contract to settle 300 families from US in Texas

Coahuila y Tejas

New state created after the Mexican Constitution of 1824 that included Coahuila and Texas

Reasons Texans started to get upset

Saltillo was far away, Mexicans didn't want slavery, Texans didn't have a say in government

Father of Texas

Stephen F. Austin

Old 300

The name given to Austin's first 300 settlers in his new colony

Martin de Leon

The only empresario to found a Texas colony of Mexican settlers, given permission to establish a colony along the lower Guadalupe River in the town of Victoria

He died

Why was Moses Austin unable to colonize Texas?

Militia

a military force that is raised from the civil population to supplement a regular army in an emergency.

Immigrant

a person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there

National Colonization Law of 1824

allowed each Mexican state to set its own colonization policies and created new restrictions on where Anglos could settle

Reasons settlers wanted to come to Texas

cheap land, escape debt, new start, economic opportunity

Erasmo Seguin

fHelped Stephen F Austin get land grants and helped write the Mexican Constitution

Grito de Dolores

fiery speech given by priest Father Miguel Hidalgo in 1810, started Mexico's independence movement

Stephen F Austin

known as the Father of Texas, led the second and ultimately successful colonization of Texas by bringing 300 families from the United States.

Empresarios

land agents who worked for Mexico to recruit American settlers to come to Texas.

dogtrot cabin

log homes with two separated rooms that Anglo-Americans lived in when they moved to Texas

Brazos and Colorado Rivers

rivers that border SFA's colony