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Chapt 5 Review Test

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What did the settlers have to do in return?
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What were some of the problems SFA’s new colony had?
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In what year did Moses Austin get his empresario contract from Spain?
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What was the land like in south Texas and what was it good for?
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What were some jobs that Moses Austin had?
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Describe what life was like for women in the colonies of Texas.
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By the mid-1830s, two regions existed in Texas. What were the two regions and who lived there?
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What did Stephen F. Austin offer to bring settlers to his colony?
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How did Moses Austin lose his fortune when he was in the Louisiana Territory (Missouri)?
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Why did most Mexicans not want to settle in Texas?
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What was created to deal with settlers concerns about self-rule?
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How did Austin deal with some of these problems?
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What happened in 1821 that would jeopardize Austin’s empresario contract?
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What was the land like in east Texas and what was it good for?
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What did the colonization laws of 1823 and 1824 do?
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Who were the Old Three Hundred?
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• Land for 12.5 cents an acre (compared to US for $1.25per acre)• Later he rebated most of the fees• A sitio of land for ranching plus and additional 177 acres for farming
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It was flat & grassy; good for ranching
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 Had to become Mexican citizen Adopt Roman Catholic religion
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Rivers weren’t deep enough in east Texas for transportation; hostile Native Americans
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Department of Nacogdoches, Bèxar & Brazos
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Mexico gained its independence
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It was very hard. They did not have any labor-saving devices; they had to make their own soap; few medicines and few doctors; made their clothing without sewing machines; watch over their children to keep them safe; no schools
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 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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Granted large amounts of land; didn’t have to pay taxes for 6 years; had to become Mexican citizen; 1824 – gave control of granting contracts to the state governments
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His bank failed because the speculators couldn’t pay back their loans
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The first families of Austin’s colony
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1820
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He created a militia to protect the colonists from attacks by Native Americans; he called for new settlers
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Merchant (sold dry goods); miner (lead mining); banker
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North Texas – Anglos (Americans who lived in Texas) & South Texas – Tejanos (people with Mexican ancestry who lived in Texas)
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It had plenty of rainfall and rich soil; good for farming
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Who was the only Mexican empresario and founded the town of Victoria?
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Who helped Moses Austin get this contract?
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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”.
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Which empresario received a contract to bring 400 families to Texas and founded the town of Gonzales?
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Which empresario was very careful about recruiting the right “kind” or “type” of settlers?
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Who wrote about the “many trials and troubles” that she and her family faced on the Texas frontier?
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Who was asked to take over the plans for settling after Moses Austin died?
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Which empresario tried to revolt against Mexico by declaring Texas an independent nation called the Republic of Fredonia?
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Who helped to promote settlement in Texas by writing about Texas history and offering guidance to new immigrants?
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What country had people come and settle in two colonies in Texas?

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