Texas Empresario System Test

Who is famous for giving a speech known as "el grito de Dolores?"

• Augustine de Iturbide

• Father Miguel Hidalgo

• Hernan Cortes

• Juan de O’Donojú

What is significant about the Treaty of Córdoba?

• It created the Army of the Three Guarantees

• It gave Spain its independence from Mexico

• It gave Mexico its independence from Spain

• It gave Texas its independence from Mexico

Present day Texas was once ruled by who?

• the Aztecs

• Mexico

• Spain

• all of the above

Who was an Empresario who established a colony of more than 100 families in the early 1820s?

• Martin de Leon

• Stephen F. Austin

• Both of the above

• Neither of the above

Who was a Spanish conquistador who took over the Aztec Empire in 1521?

• Father Miguel Hidalgo

• Hernan Cortes

• Augustine de Iturbide

• Juan de O’Donojú

Leaders appointed by the Spanish government to govern large areas of land in the New World were known as?

• empresarios

• monarchs

• conquistadors

• viceroys

What did the job of an empresario involve?

• establishing a new colony

• dividing up the land

• enforcing the laws

• all of the above

Who was the first Mexican empresario of Texas?

• Martin de Leon

• Stephen F. Austin

• both of the above

• neither of the above

Who commanded the "Army of the Three Guarantees?"

• Father Miguel Hidalgo

• Augustine de Iturbide

• Hernan Cortes

• Juan de O’Donojú

Religious settlements that served to spread Christianity and Spanish culture to Native American groups were known as?

• convents

• missions

• presidios

• sanctuaries