Unit 4 Review

What did the State Colonization Law of 1825 essentially reconfirm? 

• The plan of Iguala of 1821
• The Colonization Law of 1823
• The Declaration of Indepencedence 1814
• The Mexican Federal Constitution 

What role did empresarios play in settling the Texan frontier?

• They organized efforts to combat American Indians
• They encouraged settlers to move to Texas.
• They built industries that employed settlers
• They fought to prevent foreign immigration to Texas. 

What was the capital of the first Colony established in Texas?

• San Felipe de Austin
• La Bahia
• Austin’s Colonies
• Washington on the Brazos

Anglo settlers were required to prove this before coming to settle their land grants in “Mexican Texas”?

• They have been baptized in the Lutheran Church
• Their parents were raised in the Baptist Church
• They were married in the Protestant Church
• They were members of the Catholic Church

What is the information below describing? o cheap land o fertile soil o start a new life, o easy payment terms for land o generous land policies 

• Factors that pulled settlers away from their homeland
• Life in Germany in the 1800’s
• . Factors that attracted any settlers to try for a new life in Texas
• . Life in the northeastern United States

I brought more settlers to Texas than any other Mexican empresario and this is why I am considered to be the most successful empresario. I worked hard to make my colonies successful in Mexican Texas. Who would have said this?

• Martin de Leon
• Moses Austin
• Lorenzo de Zavala
• Stephen F Austin

What was one of the responsibilities of an empresario?

• Require their settlers to become Catholic
• Require their settlers to become Mexican Citizens of good character
• Promote the settlement of Texas
• All of the above

As the OLD 300 traveled from their homes in the southern United States, they adapted to the environment and used the following forms of transportation in order to arrive in Texas? 

• flatboats made to travel the shallow rivers
• . many children walked along with their families and took turns riding in the wagons
• many families rode horseback and carried their belongings in covered wagons 
• all of above

What influenced Moses Austin in his attempt to colonize Texas?

• . Spanish officials forced Austin to give up all of his money and goods and leave Spanish territory
• Austin was robbed by pirates when they raided a ship on which he was traveling
• Austin invested all of his money in a gold mine that failed to produce any gold.
• There was a depression that caused many banks to fail, including the one in which Austin was part owner.

The State Colonization law of 1825, which encouraged the empresario system, was created to:

• Move the Texas capital to San Antonio
• Increase immigration in Texas
• Prevent further protestant immigration and outlaw slavery
• provide a militia to the colony