Name: ______________________________________________
Class Period: ________
This is due on Monday,
October 19th.
Texas Settlement & Empresarios Review
Directions: Answer the questions below:
Test on Tuesday, Oct. 20th .
1. Who is Marques Rubi? What did he recommend to the King of Spain?
What did he recommend?
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2. What is the largest settlement inn Texas during this period?
3. Who is Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla and how did he help create Mexico?
4. What year was Mexico Independence of Spain?
5. What is a filibuster and how did they help shape Texas?
Philip Nolan
James Long
Jane Long
Jean Lafitte
6. How did the Louisiana Purchase change the size of the United States?
7. Which filibuster led two unsuccessful expeditions into Texas and was killed in Mexico City?
8. Who led a revolt against Spanish rule, and became known as the Father of Mexican Independence?
9. Who was a mustanger, but was killed by the Spanish because he was suspected of being a spy for the
French?
10. Jean Laffite was in control of what island? (town still exists today!)
11. List 5 different examples of the Spanish legacy in Texas.
12. Did Mexicans want to settle in Texas? Why/Why not?
13. Did Anglos want to settle in Texas? Why/Why not?
14. What was the Spanish/Mexican criteria for settlers to move to Texas?
15. Define the term Empresarios:
Moses Austin
Stephen F Austin
William Goyens
Martin Deleon
Juan Sequin
Green DeWitt
1. What was the result of the Adams-Onis
Treaty?
Write the vocabulary word in the correct definition box.
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Alliance
Detachment
Filibuster
Friar
Granary
Lariat
Liberation
Mestizo
A person of mixed Spanish and Native
American heritage
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Freedom
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A small unit of a military force
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Presidio
Republic
Tejano
Vaquero
A government in which the people elect
representatives to make governmental
decisions.
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A Spanish cowboy
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An agreement among countries to work together
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A Catholic priest belonging to a religious
order
A Spanish fort, or military outpost
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A room to store grain
A person of Mexican heritage that calls Texas
home
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An individual who carries out unauthorized
warfare against a foreign country
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A long, light rope
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