Chapter 7 Reading Questions Answers
Section 1
1. Depression
2. Austin
Richmond
3. Stephen F.
colonization
4. San Antonio
5. Soil
water
6. Surveyed
7. Farms
horses
8. 1823
100,000
9. Tonkawas
Karankawas
10. 1825
300
11. San Felipe de Austin
resources
cows
empresario
Old Three Hundred
Section 2
1. 19 states and 4 territories; they were united as one state
2. a.) no one could own more than 48, 708 acres of land b.) no colony
could be established within 10 leagues of the coast or 20 leagues of a
border without government permission
c.) only colonists who intended
to live on the land would receive land contracts
3. Saltillo
4. 4,428 acres
5. Families, single men, Roman Catholic, good moral character
6. Through the empresario system because the empresarios had acquired the
best land
7. Southern U.S.
8. Farms and plantations, mostly along the Brazos, Colorado, and Trinity
Rivers
9. Mary Austin Holley
10. Frances Trask