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WorksheetsTexas Empresarios
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Which Empresario...
• Negotiated a contract to bring Anglo families to Texas
• Died before he could fulfill his dream
Moses Austin
Stephen Austin
Green De Witt
Martin De Leon
Erasmo Seguin
Which Empresario...
• The first successful empresario
• Fulfilled his father’s contract and took 300 Anglo families to Texas
• Known as the Father of Texas
Moses Austin
Stephen Austin
Green De Witt
Martin De Leon
Erasmo Seguin
Which Individual Rights was denied to Anglos living in Texas under the Constitution of 1824?
Freedom of Speech
Freedom of Press
Freedom of Religion
Freedom of Assembly
• A businessperson who was granted the right to promote settlement in Texas (land / real estate agent)
• Made responsible for the new settlers that came
• Helped Mexico by increasing the population of Texas
Spanish Conquistador
Anglo
Empresario
Tejano
How many families did SFA bring to Texas?
300
200
100
3000
What is a land grant?
Granting you a wish from a genie
Free Land
Indian Territory
Manifest Destiny
Who was using the land grants to settle in Texas?
Native Americans
French men
Anglo Americans
Chinese
According to the graphic organizer, how were merchants, doctors, and other colonists with special skills treated in Stephen Austin's plan for his first settlement?
They received additional land
Because they were not farmers, they received less land.
They received land in the colony's capital city.
They were entitled to prime land near the coast.
How did most African Americans come to live in the early Texas settlements?
Free African Americans bought most of the available land.
Free African Americans fled to Texas from Mexico.
Governors in Mexico encouraged African Americans to settle in Texas.
Southern farmers brought enslaved African Americans into Texas.
Into what three departments was Texas organized?
Bexar, Brazos, and Nacogdoches
Austin, DeWitt, and De Leon
Mexico, Texas, and the United States
San Antonio, Independence, and Goliad
Which is a reason why Americans came to Texas?
Adventure
Escaping political, criminal and financial problems in the United States
Cheap land
All of the above
