Transcript the six flags of texas

• Baron de Bastrop helped Moses Austin
colonize Texas
• Stephen F. Austin was allowed to chose land
for a colony
• Stephen F. Austin raised a militia
• Mexican Independence from Spain
• Austin lost his contract to settle Texas
• Needs permission from new country
• The original settlers to Austin’s colony
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• Many Anglo Americans settled in Texas
Encourage Mexican settlers to come to Texas
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colonists in Texas thought they needed
slaves
• Centralists were people who believed
• power should be concentrated in the national
government.
Believed states and the central government
should share the power
• Stephen F. Austin could deal effectively with
people of different cultures
• Austin learned the Spanish language
first Anglo American to secure
permission from the Spanish to bring
settlers to Texas
Tejano who was a representative to
the Coahuila and Texas legislature
San Antonio citizen who accompanied
Stephen F. Austin to see the governor
2nd most successful empresario in
Texas
empresario who settled 200 Mexican
families in Texas
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Financial Panic of 1819 United States
Empresario under Spanish flag
Spain 300 years against immigration
Spain fearful of filibusters
Moses Austin and Slave Richmond travel to Mexico
City capitol of New Spain
• Viceroy or Governor Martinez rejects empresario
contract
• Bareon De Bastop convince governor Martinez to
allow empresario contract
• Moses Austin dies of pneumonia
• Stephen Austin travels with Erasmo Seguin a San
Antonio citizen to Mexico City to see governor to get
contract switched to his name
• Governor allows empresario contract to be switched
to Stephen Austin
• Stephen Austin chooses area between Brazos and
Colorado Rivers for his first colony
• Old Three Hundred were the first families to
Stephen Austin’s colony
• Joseph Hawkins loans Stephen Austin money
to buy supplies and ship called the Lively
• Militia a group of citizens who are like an army
but serve only when needed
• Mexico Independence 1821
• Believed power should be concentrated in the
national government
• The Centralists support Emperor Agustin de
Iturbide to be Mexican leader
• Federalists believe power should be shared
between the states and national government
• 1823 Emperor Iturbide is overthrown by the
Federalists
• Federalist write the Mexican constitution on
1824
• VOCABULARY
• Filibuster- an individual who carries out rebellious
activities in a foreign country
• Empresario- the Spanish word for a land agent
whose job it was to bring in new settlers to an area
and arrange business transactions
• Petition- a request
• Survey- measure for size and for boundaries
• Title- proof of ownership
• Frontier- the edge of settlement
• San Felipe de Austin- government center of
Stephens Austin’s colony
• Saltillo- the capital of the state of Coahulia y Tejas
• Sterling Robertson- leader of the Nashville Company
who opposed land claims of Austin
• Baron de Bastrop- friend of Moses Austin and
representative to the Coahuila and Texas legislature
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THE SIX FLAGS OF TEXAS
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Republic
United States
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