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Anglo/European Colonization
Unit #3 test
26 cards·by Mrs. Ramsey
As a result of the Louisiana Purchase, the United States?
doubled in size
Who clamed to fight for Mexican Independence but had other, more personal motives?
Jean Laffite
Who was the last Spanish Governor of Texas?
Antonio Martinez
According to the colonization laws of 1825, a man who married a Mexican woman
received extra land
The headquarters for the "Little Colony"
Bastrop
Filibusters were
adventurers
Stephen F. Austin raised a militia on his return from Mexico City to
protect the colony from Native Americans
A government in which voters chose people to represent them is a
republic
Many Anglo Americans settled in Texas because they
wanted good farmland at a cheap price
The headquarters fror Green de Witt's colony
Gonzales
Capital of Austin's colony
San Felipe
The Texas adventurer who captured Nacogdoches in 1819 with 300 rebels was
James Long
When Mexico became independent from Spain in 1821, the largest settlement in Texas was
San Antonio
Trouble within the Republican army resulted from
Americans and Mexicans quarreling over the nature of the government
The province united with Texas to form a new Mexican State
Coahuila
In the Mexican government, Centralists were people who believed
power should be concentrated in the national government
The leader of the East Texans who founded Nacogdoches was
Gil Ybarbo
Who were reluctant to relocate to San Antonio
settlers in East Texas
Stephen F. Austin decided a good place for a colony was
between the Colorado and Brazos Rivers
Stephen F. Austin requested land along the coast for his colony because
he needed a port
The majority of immigrants to Texas during the 1820s were from
the United States
The Adams-Onis Treaty resulted in
Florida becoming part of the U. S.
What three European nations claimed land in North America by 1750
France, England, Spain
Spain's effort to colonize texas int he late 1700s was impeded by
conflicts with Native Americans
The original settlers to Austin's colony were called the
Old Three Hundred
What is a vaquero?
cowboy