empresarios revised

Why were Spanish officials worried about the number of Americans settling in Texas?

• They feared that Americans would outnumber Spaniards and eventually take control of the territory.
• They were concerned that Americans would turn the Native Americans away from the Catholic Church.
• They thought that Texas would become overpopulated.
• They were convinced that Americans would attempt to enslave Spanish citizens.

What Filibuster was given permission from Spain to wrangle horses and sell them for profit?

• Father Hidalgo

• James Long

• Philip Nolan

• Gueiterrez

What was the outcome of the Battle of Medina?

• Texas won and became independent
• they lost but inspired more to join the cause
• they one and wrote a new Consititution
• we won and started the State Colonization Law.

Priests and religious men lived at these for the purpose of converting Native Americans to Catholicism

• Missions
• Presidios

Soldiers lived at these to protect religious men and settlers who colonized in Texas

• Missions
• Presidios

What happened to the land the French had to give up in North America?

• Spain owned it but gave it back to France
• France owned it but sold it to the United States
• Spain and England split it after France was kicked out
• All of the above

The United States wanted to expand all the way to the west coast.
This is  ______________  conflict with New Spain

• a cause for
• an effect of

Someone who arranges business deals including the buying and selling of land.

• Filibuster
• Realtor
• James Long
• Empresario

After Mexico gained its independence from Spain the new Mexican government drafted this Federal Constitution...

• The Mexican Constitution of 1824
• Erasmo Seguin
• Filibuster
• Empresario

Started the independence movement in Mexico in 1810 and was executed.

• Father Hidalgo
• Moses Austin
• Stephen F. Austin
• Philip Nolan