USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Mexican government worked with empresarios, who operated as land agents in Texas. Empresarios worked to bring settlers who would develop Texas for the Mexican government. In exchange, those settlers would receive title to land – a resource that was abundant. One of the most famous empresarios, Stephen F.

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: -De Leon, Martin (1765–1833). Martín De León, the only Mexican empresario to found a colony in Texas, was born in 1765 in Burgos, Nuevo Santander (now Tamaulipas), where his parents, Bernardo and María Galván De León, settled after moving from Burgos, Spain.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.