empresario system

Coming to Texas

Multiple Choice

• A businessperson who was granted the right to promote settlement in Texas (land / real estate agent)

• Made responsible for the new settlers that came

• Helped Mexico by increasing the population of Texas

• Spanish Conquistador

• Anglo

• Empresario

• Tejano

Multiple Choice

A military adventurer who tried to stir up rebellion in another country is a

• creole

• anglo

• filibuster

• militia

Multiple Choice

Which empresario is the 1st to receive a land grant (contract) to settle families in TX?

• Moses Austin

• Stephen F. Austin

• Martin de Leon

• Green Dewitt

Multiple Choice

Which Empresario...

• The first successful empresario

• Fulfilled his father’s contract and took 300 Anglo families to Texas

• Known as the Father of Texas

• Moses Austin

• Stephen Austin

• Green De Witt

• Martin De Leon

• Erasmo Seguin

Multiple Choice

Stephen F. Austin’s original colonists were called ____.

• The Old 300

• Austin's Assembly

• The Old 400

• The Original 300