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Baron de Bastrop helped Moses Austin colonize 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.

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Baron de Bastrop helped Moses Austin colonize Texas

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  1. Baron de Bastrop helped Moses Austin colonize Texas

  2. Stephen F. Austin was allowed to chose land for a colony • Stephen F. Austin raised a militia

  3. Mexican Independence from Spain • Austin lost his contract to settle Texas • Needs permission from new country

  4. The original settlers to Austin’s colony http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hkcZilKChI&feature=related

  5. Many Anglo Americans settled in Texas

  6. Encourage Mexican settlers to come to Texas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY3aljAO7qU

  7. colonists in Texas thought they needed slaves

  8. Centralists were people who believed • power should be concentrated in the national government. Believed states and the central government should share the power

  9. Stephen F. Austin could deal effectively with people of different cultures • Austin learned the Spanish language

  10. first Anglo American to secure permission from the Spanish to bring settlers to Texas

  11. Tejano who was a representative to the Coahuila and Texas legislature

  12. San Antonio citizen who accompanied Stephen F. Austin to see the governor

  13. 2nd most successful empresario in Texas

  14. empresario who settled 200 Mexican families in Texas

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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 Independence1821

  18. Believed power should be concentrated in the national government • The Centralists support Emperor Agustin de Iturbide to be Mexican leader

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 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

  22. THE SIX FLAGS OF TEXAS • Spain • France • Mexico • Republic • United States • Confederacy

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