MNE Vocab

Empresario, worked with Spanish government to bring Americans to Texas

• Moses Austin

• Empresario

• Tejano

• Immigration

Brought 300 American families to Texas

• Immigration

• Treaty of Cordoba

• Stephen F Austin

• Green DeWitt

A person who was contracted by the Mexican government to bring colonists to settle in Texas.

• Empresario

• Stephen F Austin

• Moses Austin

• Immigration

The movement of people from one place to settle in another place.

• Treaty of Cordoba

• Mexican Federal Constitution of 1824

• Moses Austin

• Immigration

The unique cultural blending of Spanish and American traditions in Texas; a person born in Texas with Spanish and/or Mexican heritage.

• Treaty of Cordoba

• Stephen F. Austin

• Immigration

• Tejano

A Mexican priest who started the Mexican War of Independence with his Grito de Dolores. He wanted people of all classes, or social ranks, to be equal.

• Mexican National Era

• Immigration

• Father Miguel Hidalgo

• Mexican Federal Constitution of 1824

First constitutional government in Texas; created the state of Coahuila y Tejas, gave rights to Anglo Texans

• Moses Austin

• Mexican Federal Constitution of 1824

• Green DeWitt

• Father Miguel Hidalgo

(1821 - 1836) This period of time included Mexico's fight for independence from Spain, Mexican colonization of Texas, and Texas under Mexican rule.

• Tejano

• Treaty of Cordoba

• Mexican National Era

• Mexican Federal Constitution of 1824

1821, established Mexico as an independent Constitutional Monarchy

• Treaty of Cordoba

• Empresario

• Mexican National Era

• Tejano

Established a colony of 166 families near Gonzales

• Treaty of Cordoba

• Father Miguel Hidalgo

• Tejano

• Green DeWitt