USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Why did the Americans want to move to Texas? 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.

Detailed explanation-2: -Like other new frontiers before and after, Texas was attractive to American settlers because of cheap land prices (four cents for an acre of undeveloped land vs. $1.25 in the United States) and the opportunity to escape debts or other problems back home.

Detailed explanation-3: -America had no more land to the west but Mexico did. Mexico offered free land to American settlers who would come to Texas and homestead in areas threatened by Indian attacks. The Americans came homesteaded and fought the Indians.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.

Detailed explanation-5: -Land agents called empresarios made the arrangements for bringing settlers to a new colony. Empresario Stephen F.