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Age of Empresarios Graphic Organizer (On-Level)
Use your study guide, notes and chapter 7 text to complete the graphic organizer. Please be specific!
Timeline—
On the timeline below, put the following six events in order. Write the name of the event above or below the box with year provided.
Events: SFA starts a colony of Anglo Americans in Texas in ________; Mexican General (or National) Colonization Law of
_________; State Colonization Law of ________; Moses Austin gains permission from Spanish government to colonize Texas with
Anglo Americans in ________; the Mexican Federal Constitution of ______; Mexico gains independence from Spain in _________.
Sept. 1821
1820
1823
Aug. 1821
1825
1824
People ID
Person or Group
Identification/Description
People who believed that governmental power should be concentrated in the national, or central, government in Mexico City.
The original 297 families that settled in Austin’s first colony. Most came from the
Southern states and selected the best land available.
Mexican-born empresario who settled Mexican settlers in Texas. An expert horseman and rancher that settled families along the Guadalupe River near the coast.
First Anglo American to secure permission from Spain to bring American settlers to
Texas.
People who believed in the sharing of governmental power between the states and
the national government.
The next most successful empresario behind Stephen F. Austin. He established the
town of Gonzales and by 1831 had settled 166 titles of land.
Leading citizen of San Antonio who escorted Stephen F. Austin to meet with Spanish Governor Martinez in August 1821.
Son of Moses Austin who became the most successful empresario and settled hundreds of families in Texas.
Essential Questions
Name the Era that deals with efforts of Mexico to populate and retain Texas from the formation of the Republic of
Mexico in 1821 through the Texas Revolution in 1836.
What political group wrote the Mexican Constitution of 1824?
What was the name of the Mexican state that combined the two provinces?
What law allowed SFA and other empresarios to receive land grants in Texas?
What law recognized slavery but outlawed slave trading?
Give at least two causes and two effects of why Stephen F. Austin was a successful colonizer.
Empresarios
Empresario, Year
Stephen F. Austin, 1821-1825
(1st Colony)
Stephen F. Austin, 1827
(2nd Colony)
Green DeWitt, 1825
Martin and Patricia de Leon, 18051824
James Power & James Hewetson,
1828
John McMullen & James McGloin,
1828
Nancy Tevis, 1824-1836
Town Founded or Capital