Colonization & Causes of the Texas Revolution

Missions, presidios, town of Bexar (San Antonio) all took place during this ERA?

• Mexican National

• Spanish Colonial

• European Exploration

• Statehood

All were reasons why Anglos wanted to move to Spanish/Mexican Texas EXCEPT -

• escape debt

• cheap land

• $1000 for every settler

• start new life

He received a Spanish land grant to establish an Anglo-American colony in Texas?

• Stephen F. Austin

• Green DeWitt

• James Power

• Moses Austin

He is called the "Father of Texas"

• Moses Austin

• Stephen F. Austin

• Green DeWitt

• Martin de Leon

Identify this famous Texan

• Moses Austin

• Green DeWitt

• Stephen F. Austin

• William B. Travis

What action did the Mexican government take to encourage the settlement of Texas?

• paid settlers money to come to Texas

• provided Anglos empresario land grants

• established religious freedom

• created Texas as its own Mexican state

The Colonization Law of 1825 affected which group the most?

• empresarios

• filibusters

• explorers

• merchants

1st Spanish settlers came to Texas to build missions; 1st Anglo settlers came to Texas to build?

• stores

• businesses

• towns

• farms/ranches

The purpose used to settle Texas by Anglos was to increase the population and what method did they use?

• empresario land grants

• sharecropping

• building churches

• creating new businesses

He helped Father Hidalgo during the Mexican revolution against Spain. He also went to Washington trying to gain U.S. support, but denied?

• Santa Anna

• Jose Gutierrez de Lara

• Erasmo Seguin

• Baron de Bastrop