Get Lesson 12 A Child Of The Revolution

What was Father Eusebio Kino's major accomplishment? He established a network of 24 missions throughout California and the Desert Southwest.

By December of that year, the small Texas army captured the important crossroads town of San Antonio de Bexar and seized the garrison known as the Alamo. Mexican General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna recaptured the town on March 6, 1836, after a thirteen-day siege; the Mexican army suffered an estimated 600 casualties.

Defenders of slavery argued that the sudden end to the slave economy would have had a profound and killing economic impact in the South where reliance on slave labor was the foundation of their economy. The cotton economy would collapse.

By December of that year, the small Texas army captured the important crossroads town of San Antonio de Bexar and seized the garrison known as the Alamo. Mexican General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna recaptured the town on March 6, 1836, after a thirteen-day siege; the Mexican army suffered an estimated 600 casualties.

He established a network of 24 missions throughout California and the Desert Southwest. He assisted the escape plans of American Indians who were fleeing from a Spanish mission.

AMERICAN SETTLERS MOVE TO TEXAS To increase the non-Indian population in Texas and provide a buffer zone between its hostile tribes and the rest of Mexico, Spain began to recruit empresarios. An empresario was someone who brought settlers to the region in exchange for generous grants of land.

In order to build a tax base and encourage settlement in the new Republic of Texas, the government instituted a liberal policy of distributing the public domain to incoming settlers.

What was required of people who wanted to settle in Texas before the Mexican Revolution? They had to declare they would become loyal Spanish subjects.

Land agents called empresarios made the arrangements for bringing settlers to a new colony. Empresario Stephen F. Austin needed to let prospective colonists know that coming to Mexican Texas was possible.

Anglo-Americans were drawn by inexpensive land and believed annexation of Texas to the United States was likely and would improve the market for the land. Some settlers were fleeing debts and sought refuge in the Mexican colony, where they were safe from American creditors.

Land agents called empresarios made the arrangements for bringing settlers to a new colony. Empresario Stephen F. Austin needed to let prospective colonists know that coming to Mexican Texas was possible.

What was Father Eusebio Kino's major accomplishment? He established a network of 24 missions throughout California and the Desert Southwest.

By December of that year, the small Texas army captured the important crossroads town of San Antonio de Bexar and seized the garrison known as the Alamo. Mexican General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna recaptured the town on March 6, 1836, after a thirteen-day siege; the Mexican army suffered an estimated 600 casualties.

Defenders of slavery argued that the sudden end to the slave economy would have had a profound and killing economic impact in the South where reliance on slave labor was the foundation of their economy. The cotton economy would collapse.

By December of that year, the small Texas army captured the important crossroads town of San Antonio de Bexar and seized the garrison known as the Alamo. Mexican General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna recaptured the town on March 6, 1836, after a thirteen-day siege; the Mexican army suffered an estimated 600 casualties.

He established a network of 24 missions throughout California and the Desert Southwest. He assisted the escape plans of American Indians who were fleeing from a Spanish mission.

AMERICAN SETTLERS MOVE TO TEXAS To increase the non-Indian population in Texas and provide a buffer zone between its hostile tribes and the rest of Mexico, Spain began to recruit empresarios. An empresario was someone who brought settlers to the region in exchange for generous grants of land.

In order to build a tax base and encourage settlement in the new Republic of Texas, the government instituted a liberal policy of distributing the public domain to incoming settlers.

What was required of people who wanted to settle in Texas before the Mexican Revolution? They had to declare they would become loyal Spanish subjects.

Land agents called empresarios made the arrangements for bringing settlers to a new colony. Empresario Stephen F. Austin needed to let prospective colonists know that coming to Mexican Texas was possible.

Anglo-Americans were drawn by inexpensive land and believed annexation of Texas to the United States was likely and would improve the market for the land. Some settlers were fleeing debts and sought refuge in the Mexican colony, where they were safe from American creditors.

Land agents called empresarios made the arrangements for bringing settlers to a new colony. Empresario Stephen F. Austin needed to let prospective colonists know that coming to Mexican Texas was possible.