Review- Settlements and Empresarios

1. All of the following are characteristics of the mission-building era in Texas except:

• Forts protected the missions

• Missions were used to claim land

• Native Americans were encouraged to learn carpentry and farming

• Native Americans were prevented from accepting Catholicism

In 1819, the United States signed a treaty with Spain, establishing the Sabine River as the eastern boundary of Spanish Texas and transferring ownership of Spanish Florida to the United States. What Treaty is this?

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Treaty of the Louisiana Purchase

• Adams-Onis Treaty

• Treaty of Paris

Which of the following is true of the Treaty of Cordoba, 1821

• Mexico became independent from Spain.

• The Treaty of Cordoba awarded lands to Native Americans.

• The Mexican Empire claimed all of America as its territory and

  formed its own government.

• Texas won its freedom from Mexico

The events below led to...

Hildago calls for Independence

Gutierrez de Lara gets help from the U.S. to free Mexico from Spanish Rule

Filibusters try to free Mexico

• Mexico becomes independent of Spain

• The United States military sends troops to Texas to support

  Father Hidalgo

• American settlers arrive in Mexico

• Spain was forced to give Louisiana back to France

Stephen F. Austin, James Dewitt, and Martin De Leon are responsible for --

• Settling churches in Mexico

• Settling Americans in towns in Texas/Mexico

• Settling Land in California

• settling forts in Texas

Who settled the the first colony San Felipe De Austin

• Stephen F. Austin

• Juan Seguin

• Martin De Leon

• James Dewitt

One difference between Spanish and Anglo settlements in Texas was that Spanish settlements during the 1700s were primarily missions and trading posts, while most Anglo settlements in the 1800s were:

• Permanent Settlements in huge grants of land

• Built Missions

• Built Forts

• Built Small Communities

The Mexican Colonization Laws were designed to –

• help colonists locate reliable sources of water

• prevent Europeans from moving into Texas

• provide land grants and encourage settlement of Texas

• shift population from the Gulf Coast to the Hill Country around

  San Antonio.

Which of the following is a correct statement about Anglo settlement in Texas.

• Increase population in the US; sharecropping

• Increase population in Mexico; establishing churches

• Increase population in Texas; empresario grants

• Increase population in the south; creating ranches

Mier Y Teran’s Recommendations:

1) More Trade between Texas and Mexico

2) More soldiers sent to Texas

3) More immigration from Europe and not the US

Based on Mier y Teran’s Report which of the following was a reason for his recommendations?

• The ratio of U.S. Anglos to Mexicans was 10 to 1.

• trade between Texas and Mexico was not useful

• Mexican immigrants settling in Texas

• wanted to prevent Texas from declaring independence