Early Texas Settlers

New economic opportunities and cheap land attracted who to Texas?

• Native Americans

• Early Settlers

• Spanish generals

• Spanish priests

Which is NOT a fact about Martín de León?

• brought Mexican settlers to Texas

• founded Victoria, Texas

• his colony maintained Mexican customs

• he was once a Spanish missionary living in Texas

How did the new immigrants to Texas modify the land for agriculture?

• built a railroad to transport goods

• cleared the land of trees

• dug a mote around their land

• grew orchards to collect the seeds

Why wouldn't the Mexican government honor Moses Austin's land grants?

• They didn't like the Anglos from the United States or their ways.

• They couldn't communicate with Stephen F. Austin due to a language barrier.

• Stephen F. Austin moved the colonies to Texas before asking.

• They were written by the former Spanish government that they had overthrown.

Who adopted the vaquero techniques when working with horses and cattle?

• the Native Texans

• the early settlers to Texas

• only the Mexican settlers

• only the Anglo settlers

Where did the early settlers in Texas get their cattle?

• from the Texas plains

• from the Spanish mission stockyards

• from Mexico City

• from the United States

How did the early settlers of Texas ship goods in and out of the area?

• the Brazos and Colorado Rivers

• the Spanish Trail

• the Atlantic Ocean

• the Mississippi River

Who brought Anglo settlers from the United States to Texas?

• Martín de León

• Moses Austin

• Stephen F. Austin

• José Rodriguez

Which empresario had to get a new grant from the Mexican government?

• Martín de León

• José Garcia

• Hector Ochoa

• Stephen F. Austin

Who are the "Old Three Hundred?"

• the Spanish missions abandoned in Texas

• the Anglo settlers Austin brought to Texas from the US

• the # of cattle that Austin's colony caught

• the amount of Spanish horses on the Texas plains