Empresarios

a person who arranged for the settlement of land in Texas during the 1800s

• filibuster

• empresario

• missionary

• none of the above

1st American empresario to get Spanish land grants in Texas; died before he could complete his empresario contract

• Moses Austin

• Stephen F. Austin

• Green DeWitt

• Dr. James Long

founded a colony for hundreds of Americans in Spanish Texas; completed his father's empresario contract

• Moses Austin

• Stephen F. Austin

• Green DeWitt

• none of the above

He helped Moses Austin reach an agreement with the Spanish government to settle Americans in Spanish Texas.

• Santa Anna

• Stephen F. Austin

• Baron de Bastrop

• none of the above

Stephen F. Austin's first group of settlers in Texas:

• the Austin Three Hundred

• the Old One Hundred

• the Old Three Hundred

• none of the above

Most of Austin's first settlers came from which part of the United States?

• the northern

• the western

• the southern

• none of the above

New settlers to Texas were expected to:

• live & work the land they were given

• practice the Catholic religion

• follow Spanish (& later Mexican) laws

• all of the above

Why did the Spanish government first turn down Moses Austin's request for an empresario contract?

• He had bad breath.

• He was not Catholic

• They thought he might be a filibuster.

• none of the above

Slavery was illegal in Mexico, so why did Mexico allow slaves to come with settlers to Texas?

• They wanted to attract settlers who would plant cotton.

• It would increase the amount of crops produced in Texas.

• More farming would make the value of Texas land greater.

• all of the above

What is a militia?

• professional soldiers

• volunteer soldiers

• a sewing group

• none of the above