Empresario Key People
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Created by:
codcook on October 20, 2011
Description:
These people will go into your "Key People" Notebook. Keep this all year to study.
Classes:
Miller/Munoz Texas History, KMS Tx History
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Jose Gutierrez de Lara | -Co-leader of the Gutierrez-Magee expedition. -Helped capture Nacogodoches -Defeated in 1813 at the Battle of Medina |
| Battle of Medina | -August 1813 -Apart of the Gutiérrez-Magee expedition. -Republican Army of the North routed due to them arguing over which government Tx would have. -Goliad and Nacogodoches become deserted. |
| Mexican Federal Constitution of 1824 | -Written by Federalists in Mexico after Iturbide was overthrown. -Divided the Mexican nation into 19 states and 4 territories -Coahuila and Texas united into "Coahuila y Tejas" -Texas could become its own Mexican state after it's population grew enough. |
| State Colonization Law of 1825 | -Allowed foreigners to immigrate to Tx. -Colonists had to show good moral character. -Had to be Roman Catholic. |
| Moses Austin | First America to receive Spanish land grant in Mexico, later Texas. He died and passed land to his son. |
| Stephen Austin | known as the Father of Texas, led the second and ultimately successful colonization of the region by bringing 300 families from the United States. |
| Erasmo Seguin | a rancher and the alcalde, or mayor of the town, led Austin to Governor Martinez, helped in Stephen F. Austin's efforts to establish a colony in Texas |
| Martin de Leon | The only empresario to found a Texas colony of Mexican settlers, given permission to establish a colony along the lower Guadalupe River in the town of Victoria |
| Green de Witt | founded Gonzales, second most important empresario |
| Hayden Edwards | -Had permission to settle in the Nacogodoches area of East Texas. -Discovered people already on his land. -Asked for proof of titles but was rejected by Political Chief Jose Antonio Saucedo. |
| Jose de Escandon | -Founder of over 20 missions -"Father of the Rio Grande Valley" |
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