Unit 4 Review Part 2

Which of the following BEST describes the contributions of Martín de León?

• Ensured that empresarios could receive land grants

• Established a Texas colony, primarily consisting of Mexican settlers

• Brought 600 settlers to Texas from the United States

• Acted as a filibuster along the Gulf Coast

Which of the following best represents a characteristic Stephen F. Austin sought in his

prospective colonists?

• Religious individuals who would start their own Catholic settlement

• People who opposed the institution of slavery

• Gamblers who would make money for the new settlement

• People of good character who would be loyal to the Mexican government

According to the diary entries shown, the author is most likely —

• a Spanish explorer

• a Spanish missionary

• an Anglo farmer

• an Anglo merchant

Religious centers, livestock ranches, forts known as presidios, and towns are characteristics of —

• French colonies

• Spanish settlements

• American Indian colonies

• Mexican settlement

Determine which contribution explains each individual’s significance to European Colonization of Texas.

Match each description with the correct era of Texas history.

• Spanish Colonial Era

• Exploration of Texas by European countries like France and Spain

• Mexican National Era

• Establishment of missions and presidios by colonial and religious leaders

• Age of Contact

• Anglo colonization of Texas with the empresario system

Match the following

• Anglo

• Continued use of the empresario system; brought enslaved people for manual labor

• Spanish

• Distributed land grants to develop Texas and solidify Mexico's claim to the land

• Mexican

• Secure control of the New World and its gold, silver, and natural resources

Match the following

• Moses Austin

• an important American empresario who settled 166 families in the area near present-day Gonzales

• Martin De Leon

• a Mexican empresario who settled 200 Mexican families in South Texas (between the Lavaca and Guadalupe River). He and his wife founded the town of Victoria in 1824.

• Green DeWitt

• first American to recruit and settle Americans in Texas/Mexico. He settled 300 families and was known as an empresario. This led to the colonization by other American settlers in Texas/Mexico.

• Stephen F. Austin

• first American to work with the Spanish government to settle Americans in Texas

Match the following vocabulary definitions with the correct terms.

• Immigration

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

• Land Grant

• A LARGE unit of land (4,480 square yards - almost a football field)

• Acre

• Large pieces of land given to empresarios by the Mexican government

• Empresario

• An agent who makes all the arrangements to bring settlers to a colony

Match the following vocabulary definitions with the correct term.

• Settler

• Government-sponsored settlement of people to new territories

• Moral

• a lung infection - can be deadly

• Colonization (colony/colonist)

• being a good person

• Pneumonia

• A colonist - a person who settles, or makes a home, in a new place

Who was the first American to work with the Spanish government to settle Americans in Texas?

• Moses Austin

• Stephen F. Austin

• Martin De Leon

• Green DeWitt