UNIT4 Mexican National Era

Old 300 Empresario

Original Anglo American settlers to immigrate

to Texas

a land agent whose job is to bring in new settlers to an area

vaquero Filibusters

Spanish Mexican cowboys in Mexico-

Texas area

Americans that drifted to Texas to see if Texas could be taken from Spanish control.

Mexican Revolutionary

Spanish Loyalist

Mexican rebels and Texans who wanted

independence from Spain

Spanish soldiers and others who sided with Spanish govt. in defeating the Mexican Rebels

immigration revolution

To move to a newland or country

rebellion against the current government in order to overthrow it

independenceFather Miguel

Hidalgo y Costillo

Freedom from control of the ruling government

or country

Mexican religious figure who began the first

rebellion of the Mexican Revolution; executed by

Spanish royal army

José Bernardo Gutiérrez de Lara

Battle of Medina1813

Mexican revolutionary (rebel) who tried with American Augustus Magee to free Texas from Spanish rule

After Gutierrez victories in Texas, Mexican Gen. Arrondondo

reclaimed the area for Spain at this battle and executed all

Texas “republicans”

Moses Austin Stephen F. Austin

First Anglo American to secure permission from

Spain to settle colonies in Texas 1821

Moses Austin’s son who became empresario for the first successful large Anglo

colony in Texas 1823

James Long Martin De León

American filibuster who tried to free East Texas from Spain and claim it

for U.S. 1819

early Texas empresario who started an Texas colony of

Mexicans along the Guadalupe River 1805

East Texas- U.S. versus Spanish boundary dispute

Green deWitt Erasmo Seguín

2nd most successful Texas empresario; established

town of Gonzales in Southwest Texas

Accompanied Stephen F Austin to Mexico as language

interpreter for permission from Spanish Gov. for Anglo

American colony in Texas

DeWitt Colony

Louisiana Purchase Adams - Onís Treaty

1803 U.S. buys Louisiana territory and questions if Texas land is part of

it

1819 U.S. and Spain settle boundary disputeSpain gets TexasU.S. gets Florida