Unit 4: Mexican Colonization and the Empresario System

1.       Mexican Federal Constitution of 1824

• restricted practicing education freely

• restricted practicing business freely

• restricted practicing religion freely

• restricted practicing trading freely

1.       Filibuster; executed for leading army into Nacogdoches for declaring Texas independence from Spain

• Philip Nolan

• Green DeWitt

• Stephen F. Austin

• Erasmo Sequin

1.       Gutierrez-Magee Expedition = convince US to support ____________

• United States

• Louisiana

• Texas

• Mexico

1.       rancher; located land for Austin colony

• Green DeWitt

• Erasmo Seguin

• Stephen F. Austin

• Martin DeLeon

1.       Martin De Leon colony settled by _________ families.

• French

• Asian

• Anglo

• Mexican

1.       Migration to Mexican Texas for ________ farmland.

• cheap

• expensive

• free

1.       Anglo colonization in Texas followed the empresarios who obtained land grants from Mexico.

• True

• False

1.       The Coastal Plains had less land grants and the most successful ones.

 

• True

• False

1.       Plantations and ranches were in ______ Texas and central Texas.

• north

• south

• east

• west

1.       African American slaves were brought into Texas during the _________ National Era.

 

• Mexican

• Asian

• American

• French