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

• Anglo colonization of Texas with the empresario system

• Age of Contact

• Establishment of missions and presidios by colonial and religious leaders

• Mexican National Era

• Exploration of Texas by European countries like France and Spain

Match the following

• Mexican

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

• Anglo

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

• Spanish

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

Match the following

• Martin De Leon

• 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.

• Green DeWitt

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

• Stephen F. Austin

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

• Moses Austin

• 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.

Match the following vocabulary definitions with the correct terms.

• Acre

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

• Empresario

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

• Immigration

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

• Land Grant

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

Match the following vocabulary definitions with the correct term.

• Colonization (colony/colonist)

• Government-sponsored settlement of people to new territories

• Pneumonia

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

• Moral

• a lung infection - can be deadly

• Settler

• being a good person

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