Texas History Chapter 5
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| What was the land like in south Texas and what was it good for? | show 🗑
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| show | It had plenty of rainfall and rich soil; good for farming
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| Why did most Mexicans not want to settle in Texas? | show 🗑
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| What did the colonization laws of 1823 and 1824 do? | show 🗑
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| show | Merchant (sold dry goods); miner (lead mining); banker
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| show | His bank failed because the speculators couldn’t pay back their loans
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| show | 1820
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| show | Baron de Bastrop
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| Who was asked to take over the plans for settling after Moses Austin died? | show 🗑
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| show | Mexico gained its independence
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| What did Stephen F. Austin offer to bring settlers to his colony? | show 🗑
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| What did the settlers have to do in return? | show 🗑
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| Who were the Old Three Hundred? | show 🗑
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| show | Austin was absent (in Mexico City) for a full year Drought (no rain fall) Karankawas Colony shrunk in size; Some colonists left & few came
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| How did Austin deal with some of these problems? | show 🗑
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| Describe what life was like for women in the colonies of Texas. | show 🗑
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| Who moved to Austin’s colony and set up a hotel for immigrants? She was also called the “Mother of Texas”. | show 🗑
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| show | Mary Crownover Rabb
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| show | Ireland (Irish)
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| Which empresario was very careful about recruiting the right “kind” or “type” of settlers? | show 🗑
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| show | Haden Edwards
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| Which empresario received a contract to bring 400 families to Texas and founded the town of Gonzales? | show 🗑
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| Who was the only Mexican empresario and founded the town of Victoria? | show 🗑
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| show | Mary Austin Holley
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| By the mid-1830s, two regions existed in Texas. What were the two regions and who lived there? | show 🗑
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| What was created to deal with settlers concerns about self-rule? | show 🗑
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