Empresarios 4th Grade

Jean Lafitte

• Settler

• Empresario

• President

• French pirate

What year did Mexico win its independence from Spain?

• 1776

• 1821

• 1492

• 1845

What did the Mexican government issue those who settled in Texas?

• land grants

• loanes

• freedom

• slaves

What is another name for a Mexican citizen who settled in Texas while under Spanish control?

• vaqueros

• citizens

• Tejanos

• pioneers

Who was named "The Father of Texas"?

• Jean Lafitte

• Moses Austin

• Martin de Leon

• Stephen F. Austin

What were the group of colonists brought to Texas by Austin know as?

• The Old 300

• Then Old 360

• The Old Settlers

• The Old Empresarios

By the year 1830, 4,000 settlers were living in Austin's colony named_______________.

• Nacogdoches de Dallas

• San Antonio de Bexar

• San Felipe de Austin

• San Felipe de Isleta

Two other Empresarios who founded colonies in Texas were______________ and _______________.

• Leo Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo

• Martin de Leon and Green DeWitt

• Jose Altuve and Yuli Gurriel

• Meriwether Lewis and William Clark

Many settlers in Gonzales escaped being attacked and went to live in the colony.

• San Antonio

• Dallas

• San Felipe

• Austin

Almost all early colonies were settled in which three areas of Texas?

• Northwestern, central, and south

• Northeastern, cetral, and south

• Southern, eastern and central

• East, north, and west