Unit 4: Spanish Missions to Mexican National era Vocabulary

Spain’s king appointed him to find solutions to New Spain’s problems. His solution was that Spain should only have 2 Texas missions and have peaceful trade relations with Native Americans. Galveston is named after him.

• Bernardo de Galvez
• Marques De Rubi

• Father Miguel Hidalgo

• Stephen F. Austin

The king of Spain sent him to report on conditions in Spanish America. His report resulted in Spain abandoning 33 missions in Texas. Only two missions remained–La Bahia (in Goliad, TX) and San Antonio.

• Marques De Rubi
• Bernardo Galvez

• Moses Austin

• Green DeWitt

In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson made this purchase that doubled the size of the Nation overnight and ended French occupation of North America.

• Louisiana Purchase
• The Old 300

• Commerce

• Immigration

Colonists who purchased land from Stephen F. Austin in Mexican Texas.

• The Old 300
• Louisiana Purchase

• 1763 Treaty of Paris

• Trade Relations

A land agent whose job it was to bring new settlers into an area.

• empresario
• presidios

• Texians

• tejanos

Someone who travels to an unclaimed territory to settle.

• pioneer
• buffer

• Tejanos

• immigration

A protective barrier from something harmful.

• buffer
• raid

• cede

• empresario

The act of moving to a new country.

• immigration
• trade relations

• commerce

• 1763 Treaty of Paris

The buying and selling of goods and services.

• commerce
• immigration

• The Old 300

• Louisiana Purchase

Relationships based on the buying and selling of goods.

• Trade Relations
• Texians

• Tejanos

• Raid