Mexican Independence And The Empresario Era Question Preview (ID: 57450)


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an adventurer who engages in private rebellious activity in a foreign country
a) filibuster
b) empresario
c) immigration
d) Tejano

an agent who makes all the arrangements to bring settlers to a colony
a) filibuster
b) Tejano
c) empresario
d) immigrant

the movement of people from one place to settle in another place
a) immigration
b) Tejano
c) filibuster
d) empresario

the unique cultural blending of Spanish and American traditions in Texas
a) immigrant
b) filibuster
c) empresario
d) Tejano

a grant of public land, especially to an institution, organization, or to particular groups of people
a) revolution
b) colonization
c) land grant
d) constitution

a forcible overthrow of a government, in favor of a new system
a) revolution
b) colonization
c) land grant
d) constitution

when a group of people move to a new place and establish a new government
a) constitution
b) land grant
c) revolution
d) colonization

a set of rules and principles by which a state is to be governed
a) revolution
b) constitution
c) colonization
d) land grant

On September 16, 1810, this person, a priest from the town of Dolores, began a revolt against Spanish rule.
a) Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
b) Stephen F. Austin
c) Moses Austin
d) Martin de Leon

Only empresario to found a colony in Texas using Mexican settlers. Established the current city of Victoria.
a) Stephen F. Austin
b) Moses Austin
c) Martin de Leon
d) Green DeWitt

The empresario system dramatically increased the ______ of Texas.
a) poverty
b) colonization
c) population
d) fertile land

Mexico was worried, however, about settlers’ ______, as new people began to immigrate and settle in the territory..
a) loyalty
b) health
c) descendants
d) nationality

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