Texas Colonization

Why did the Spanish government want to increase the number of settlers in Texas?

• to defend the area against France
• to increase trade with the United States
• to help stop raids from Native Americans
• to have more people to search for gold

Stephen F. Austin located his colony where in Texas?

• along the Rio Grande
• along the Red River
• in the Panhandle
• between the Colorado and Brazos rivers

Moses Austin became the first man to gain permission from Spain to bring _____ settlers to Texas.

• African American
• Anglo American
• Latin American
• Native American

The Spanish word _____ refers to a land agent whose job it was to bring new settlers into an area.

• criollo
• empresario
• mestizo
• vaquero

Settlers moving to Austin's colony had to agree to become _____ and Mexican citizens.

• Catholics
• farmers
• slave owners
• soldiers

After his father died, _____ took over the task of establishing a colony in Texas.

• Moses Austin
• Stephen F. Austin
• Baron de Bastrop
• Antonio Martinez

Mexico's independence in 1821 marked the beginning of a period known as the _____ era.

• Mexican National
• Mexican Imperial
• Texas Colonial
• Spanish Colonial

Stephen F. Austin's original contract allowed him to bring _____ families to Texas.

• 500
• 250
• 100
• 300

The Old Three Hundred were _____.

• the oldest people in Texas
• the first families brought to Texas by Stephen F. Austin
• the acres in Texas first settled in Austin's colony
• the miles people had to travel from San Antonio to Nacogdoches

Most of the settlers in Stephen F. Austin's colonies were _____.

• farmers
• poor
• enslaved African Americans
• soldiers