Name:____________________________
Period:___
Mexican National Era Test Review
I. Comparing and Contrasting the methods and purposes for colonization of Spain, Mexico, and
Anglo-Americans:
Spanish
Settlement
Purpose
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Secure Spanish control in New
World
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Maintain control of their
territory
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Gold, silver and resources
Method
·
Create a colony in Spain’s
name
·
Resettled other Spanish
colonist ex. Canary Islanders
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Mission and Presidio system
·
Creating settlements
Mexican
Settlement
Anglo
Settlement
Purpose
·
Increase population in northern
Mexico
·
Maintain control of their territory
Purpose
·
Increase population in Texas
·
Utilize opportunities provided for
economic gain
Method
·
Empresario Grants
·
Supporting towns already in the
area
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Large ranches
·
Creating settlements
Method
·
Allowed because of the National
Colonization Law
·
Empresario Grants
·
Settled in northern & eastern Texas
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Farming/Agriculture
·
Creating settlements
Purposes for Colonization:
1. What do all three groups have in common in terms of their purpose for colonizing
Texas?
2. What is unique (different) about Spain’s purpose for colonizing Texas?
3. What do Mexico and the Anglo-American purposes have in common?
Methods for Colonization:
4. What do all three groups have in common in terms of their methods for colonizing
Texas?
5. What is unique (different) about Spain’s methods in colonizing Texas?
6. What is unique (different) about the Anglo-American’s methods in colonizing Texas?
II. Important Events:
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1810 – Father Hidalgo’s speech
encourages Mexicans, Texans, and
others to fight for independence
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1820 – Moses Austin gets permission to
colonize Texas with Americans but dies
before he completes his plans
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1821 – Mexico is independent from
Spain
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1821 – Stephen F. Austin fulfills his
father’s dream by settling 300 families
from the United States. They are known
as the “Old Three Hundred.”
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1823-1825 National Colonization Laws
7. Which event in 1821 had a direct impact on Stephen F. Austin being able to bring settlers into Mexican
Texas?
8. How did Father Hidalgo’s speech influence the fight for Mexican Independence?
III. Mexican War for Independence (Mexican Revolution):
Battle of Medina
· Fought August 18, 1813 along the Medina River south of San Antonio between the
republican forces of the Gutiérrez-Magee expedition and the Spanish royalist army
· The Republican army lost miserably but it encouraged other to participate in the revolution
9. What was the impact that the Battle of Medina had on the Mexican war for Independence?
IV. Mexican Constitution of 1824 and the Colonization Laws of 1825:
Mexican Federal Constitution of 1824
· The constitution written after Mexico became independent of Spain
· The republic took the name of United Mexican States, and was defined as a representative
federal republic, with Catholicism as the official religion
· Created the state of Coahuila y Tejas merging the two provinces
· Favored by Anglo-American settlers because it was so similar to the US Constitution
10. Why were the Anglo-American settlers in favor of the Mexican Constitution of 1824?
11. What did the Anglo-American settlers most likely disagree with about the Mexican Constitution of 1824?
State Colonization Law of 1825
· Law that set up guidelines to the colonization of Coahuila y Texas
· Allowed Stephen F. Austin and other empresarios to receive land grants in Texas
· Provided many benefits to Anglo-American settlers
· Required Anglo-American settlers to obey all of Mexico’s laws
12. What was the purpose of the State Colonization Laws of 1825?
V. Adaptations and Modifications Texans have made to their environment:
How settlers used natural resources and the environment included:
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·
·
·
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Colonial Homes – Built from timber and rocks
Dog Run Homes – Built with a breezeway for shade and to catch the breeze
Home Furnishing – Made from natural resources in the area
Buckskin Clothes – Made from deer hide
Water Wells – Built to acquire water near their home
Food – Killed animals and grew crops
13. What were some positive ways colonists adapted to their environment?
14. How did this help them to survive?
VI. Vocabulary:
15. A form of government in which power is shared between the national government and the state governments____________________________
16. A form of government in which citizens choose their leaders by voting. Voters elect representatives (people who
represent them) to make laws- ______________________________
17. A person who received a large amount of land in Texas from the government of Mexico in exchange for bringing
and managing new settlers to the land. The word is Spanish for entrepreneur__________________________________
18. A person who fights an unauthorized, unofficial war against a foreign country______________________________
VII. Map:
19. Where (in which region) are most of the land grants located? Why?
Spanish Colonial Review
20. What were the purposes of missions?
21. What were the main characteristics of the Spanish Colonial Era?
22. Which region (Coastal Plains, North Central Plain, Great Plains, or Mountains and
Basins) was the most colonized region in Texas by the Spanish?
23. Who led the rebellion against Spain?
How the Spanish Colonization Era still has an impact on Texas Today
The Roman Catholic religion is still being practiced by some people today
Many towns (San Antonio, El Paso, Corpus Christi) and rivers (Neches, Guadalupe, Rio
Grande) were named by the Spanish