CHAPTER 8

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CHAPTER 8 Trashball Review
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• Row is team
• Only person w/number paper answers and represents
  team
• No whispering answers to team mates
• Papers down when someone is called on to answer
• EYES on screen for all questions --- THIS IS YOUR
  REVIEW, SO PAY ATTENTION!
• There is always the textbook to review!!! Dont
  make me go there!!!

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• set out on two voyages neither of which was
  successful
• brought mostly seeds, tools, and building
  materials
• ship upon which Austins first colonists sailed

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LIVELY
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• Were law-abiding, hardworking
• mainly educated people
• Austins first group of settlers

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The Old Three Hundred
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legal document proving land ownership
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Land title or land grant
LAND TITLE
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The Old Three Hundred had to agree to what 2
things?
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• Become a Mexican citizen
• Become Catholic

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period of low economic activity
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DEPRESSION
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San Felipe de Austin was
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capital of Austins first colony
SAN FELIPE DE AUSTIN
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• new state formed by the Mexican government in
  1824

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Coahuila y Texas
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• Dutch businessman living in San Antonio who
  helped Austin present his case for colonization
  to Governor Martinez

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Baron de Bastrop
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• Hoped going to Texas would enable him to regain
  his fortune
• Died before fulfilling his dream, but his son
  continued and fulfilled his dream

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MOSES AUSTIN
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• Because of the US depression in 1819, the price
  of _________ was high and _________ was scare.

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LAND MONEY
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Many of the Old Three Hundred came from?
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Southern US, especially Louisiana (right next
door to TX)
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She was one of the Old Three Hundred and a
widow who ran a successful plantation
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Jane Long
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Title given to Stephen F. Austin, because he
was so well respected and helped TX grow
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Father of Texas
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When Moses Austin lived in Missouri he became
a citizen of this country
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SPAIN
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Why did Austin find his settlers unhappy when
he returned to his colony in 1823?
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They had trouble with the Natives
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The Imperial Colonization Law made Austin
happy, b/c it secured his
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LAND GRANT
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Moses Austin originally got a land grant
from this country, but Stephen F. Austin had to
reconfirm the land grant with this country
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SPAINMEXICO
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What attracted people to want to join Austin
in colonizing Texas?
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• Cheap land in TX, 12.5 cents an acre
• Austin could allow ppl to pay off money owed over
  time, or pay with goods instead of cash

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Austin was granted the power to form this
group of volunteer soldiers which was important
in fending off Indian attacks
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militia
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Capital of Texas in 1820

• Remember it got moved from Los Adaes to this city
  which was thriving compared to other places in TX

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San AntonioHome of the Alamo
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• Offered cheap land in order to attract settlers
  to TX
• Helped to significantly boost Texas population
• Stephen F. Austin is the most famous one of these

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Empresario
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• This law helped to further open Texas
  colonization
• Created by the Mexican government

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State Colonization Law of 1825
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Why was Governor Martinez suspicious when
Moses Austin arrived in San Antonio
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Learned Moses was from the US, Martinez
thought he might be a filibuster
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He was a rancher and mayor of San Antonio
de Bexar that lead Stephen F. Austin to Governor
Martinez
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Erasmo Seguin
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Imperial Colonization Law was passed by
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Mexico
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Why did Mexico allow and encourage settlers to
move into their land
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Mexico needed a larger population in order to
keep control of its territory