Anglo Colonization

What is an empresario?

• The leader of a government

• Someone in charge of a Spanish mission

• Someone in charge of settling Texas

• The top of the top in the caste system

Martin De Leon is important because...

• He is the only empresario to use Mexican settlers.

• He is the only empresario to use Anglo settlers.

• He is the only empresario to settle in California.

• He is the only empresario to use the Gulf as drinking water.

Stephen F. Austin is important because...

• He was the most successful empresario and he later became known as the Father of Texas

• He had amazing sideburns.

• He traveled the Mississippi River.

• He began fights with other settlers.

To get land in Texas, an Anglo American had to do what?

• Become Catholic

• Live on the land

• Become loyal citizens of Mexico

• All of the above

The purpose of the Empresario System was to...

• Find gold

• Gain glory for Mexico

• populate Texas

• Convert Native Texans to Christianity

Why did the Anglo Americans come to Texas?

• Expensive land

• to follow the French, cause they are always right

• religious freedom

• Cheap land at low prices

Who was the first Anglo-American to receive permission to settle people in Texas?

• David Bowie

• George Washington

• Moses Austin

• Father Hildalgo

Who was his son that took over when he passed away?

• Stephen F. Austin

• Abraham Lincoln

• Sherlock Holmes

• James Long

What was the official religion of Mexico?

• Lutheran

• Methodist

• Pentacostal

• Catholic

Moses Austin met with governor Antonio Martinez of San Antonio to proposed what?

• to buy land

• gun and ammunition exchange

• increase trading limit between the two cities

• to bring 300 Anglo American families to Texas.