FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
SPANISH COLONIES
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Question
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Families were given 640 acres of land
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Farmers get 177 acres of land
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Both A, B and D
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Ranchers were offered 4428 acres of land
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Detailed explanation-1: -The State Colonization Law of 1825 incentivized people to move to both Texas and a nearby state within Mexico. The incentive was extremely small fees for large portions of land, in some instances up to thousands of acres.
Detailed explanation-2: -On August 18, 1824, the Mexican government passed a new national colonization law. This law allowed foreigners to settle on any vacant public land in Mexico, but restricted foreigners from settling within twenty leagues of the border with another country and within ten leagues of the coast.
Detailed explanation-3: -The State Colonization Law of 1825 allowed Mexican citizens to purchase up to 11 leagues of land. In 1830, speculators such as James Bowie began buying these grants from Mexican citizens.
Detailed explanation-4: -In order to settle Texas in the 1820s, the Mexican government allowed speculators, called empresarios, to acquire large tracts of land if they promised to bring in settlers to populate the region and make it profitable.