Name: ______Period______

Study Guide: End of Spanish Rule to Mexican National (Homework)

Date of Test: ______

  1. What is the difference in a Tejano & an Anglo settler? ______

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  1. Circle the event(s) that took place in the Mexican National Era of Texas history.
  • Pineda maps the Texas coast
  • Stephen F. Austin brings ‘Old 300’ to Texas
  • Mexico gets independence from Spain
  • Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla gives the ‘Grito de Dolores’
  • James Long declares Texas a republic
  • Caddo tribe build beehive like houses in the Piney Woods
  • Hernan Cortes defeats the Aztecs
  • Mexico writes a Constitution for the new republic
  • San Antonio is established
  • Anglo American settlers come get land grants with the help of empresario

  1. What major event (battle) was Jose Gutierrez de Lara associated with? ______
  2. What army was Gutierrez-Magee Expedition associated with? ______
  3. List 3 results/effects of the Mexican Independence movement.

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  1. Identify the significant event that took place in Texas history in the following years?

On the map

  1. Identify the 4 natural regions of Texas.
  1. Identify one natural resource for each region.
  1. What region had most of the empresario land grants?

10. Why did many settlers move to Texas in the early 1800’s? ______

11. What is an empresario? ______

12. Many people already living on an empresario’s land grant were known as what? ______

13. What is one effect of the Adams-Onis Treaty in 1819? ______

14. What was the purpose for Spanish settlement? ______

15. What was the purpose for Mexican settlement? ______

16. What was the purpose for Anglo settlement?

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17. Why did Moses Austin bring his family to Texas? ______

18. List 2 people associated with the Mexican Independence movement.

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  1. List 3 Purposes of Spanish Missions and Presidios in Texas

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  1. List 3 early Texas settlements (towns).

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21. A Federalist believed that who should control the government? ______

22. A Centralist believed that who should control the government? ______

23. What were three requirements for people to settle in Texas according to the Colonization Laws of 1825?

I.______II.______III.______

24. Under the Mexican Constitution of 1824, what newly created state was created? ______

25. ______Known as the “Father of Texas” founded the first significant colony in Texas. He brought over the “Old 300”.

26. ______He was from Missouri and received a land grant to settle 400 families. His colony was in the town of Gonzales, along the coastal plains of Texas.

27. ______He was born in Mexico and had experience as a military officer. He was the only empresario to colonize mostly Mexican settlers. Victoria was the town of his main settlement.

28. ______He asked the Spanish government for approval to settle people in Texas in 1820, because Mexico had not gained their independence from Spain yet.

29. ______He helped Stephen F. Austin establish a colony of Anglo Americans. He also served as a Texas representative to congress that wrote the Mexican Constitution of 1824.