ANGLO
COLONIZATION
I.The
plight of Texas in 1820
A.depopulated
B.underdeveloped
C.Indians
D.United
States to the east
II.Enter
Moses Austin
A.background
B.the
Texas scheme
C.Baron
de Bastrop
D.Stephen
F. succeeds his father
III.The
empresario system
A.established
by 1824 national colonization law & 1825 state law
B.Austin
most successful
1.300
families in first colony by 1825
2.five
contracts in all
3.8,000
people in Austin’s Colony by 1832
IV.Other
empresarios
A.Green
DeWitt (Gonzales)
B.Martín
de León (Victoria)
C.Haden
Edwards (Nacogdoches)
1.Fredonian
Rebellion (Nov. 1826-Jan. 1827)
V.Immigrant
population by 1834
A.20,000
Anglos
B.5,000
slaves
VI.Mexico’s
motives
A.pin-cushions
for Indian arrows
B.taxpaying
citizens
C.jobs
& economic development
D.it
beats illegal immigration
VII.Theimmigrants’
motives
A.Panic
of 1819
B.land
1.U.S.
land policy
2.land
policy in empresario system
3.cotton
profitable
VIII.
The immigrants
A.Scots-Irish
from Upper South
B.plantation
settlers from Lower South
C.“cluster
migration”