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
