Empresario System and Texas Empresarios

Front

Which Empresario negotiated a contract to bring Anglo families to Texas and died before he could fulfill his dream?

Back

Moses Austin

Front

Which Empresario was a Tejano rancher, was a friend of the Austin Family, and helped Stephen F. Austin receive an empresario land grant in Texas?

Back

Erasmo Seguin

Front

Which Empresario established the town of Gonzalez with Anglo settlers and was the second biggest empressario?

Back

Green De Witt

Front

Which Empresario is known as the Father of Texas, fulfilled his father’s contract, and took 300 Anglo families to Texas?

Back

Stephen Austin

Front

Which Empresario brought mostly Mexican settlers to his Texas colony?

Back

Martin De Leon

Front

Which Individual Rights was denied to Anglos living in Texas under the Constitution of 1824?

Back

Freedom of Religion

Front

I was the first to obtain permission to bring Anglo settlers to Spanish Texas; Who am I?

Back

Moses Austin

Front

A businessperson who was granted the right to promote settlement in Texas, made responsible for the new settlers that came, and helped Mexico by increasing the population of Texas.

Back

Empresario

Front

What was the significance of 1821?

Back

Mexico won its independence from Spain.

Front

The list above describes the ________________________.
· Catholicism was the official religion
· President elected by the states
· Central government was weak
· States had most of the power

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Mexican Constitution of 1824