FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
SPANISH COLONIES
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populate Texas
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created a buffer between the US and central Mexico
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created economic growth
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led to Mexican independence
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Detailed explanation-1: -Following Mexico’s independence in 1821, the Mexican government used the empresario system to commission empresarios who could settle Texas. These entrepreneurs coordinated family groups that wanted to settle in Northern Texas. The empresario system offered land grants to settle Catholic families in the region.
Detailed explanation-2: -Empresarios acted as land agents, recruiting a certain number of people to move to Texas. They provided settlers with loans and supplies. They also acted as the colony’s representative to the Mexican government. For their services, the empresarios were paid with large grants of land.
Detailed explanation-3: -EMPRESARIO SYSTEM. After Mexican independence in 1821, the Mexican government contracted “empresarios” or land agents to aid the settlement of Texas. Each empresario agreed to settle a specific number of Catholic families on a defined land grant within six years.
Detailed explanation-4: -The empresario received a grant of land on which to settle the colonists he recruited, though he did not, in fact, own this land. It was the empresario’s responsibility to survey the land and then issue title to that land.