USA HISTORY

FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE

SPANISH COLONIES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Where were the most successful Empresario settlements located
A
Mountains and Basins
B
Great Plains
C
North Central Plains
D
Gulf Coastal Plains
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Austin is probably the best known and most successful empresario in Texas. The first group of colonists, known as the Old Three Hundred, arrived in 1822 and settled along the Brazos River, ranging from the Gulf of Mexico to near present-day Dallas.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Establishment of the Empresario System The Colonization Act of 1825 offered land grants to help entice settlement in Texas. Between 1824 and 1835, empresario colonies formed throughout Coahuila y Tejas, with around 8 spread along the Gulf of Mexico, as well as about 8 colonies in north and central Texas.

Detailed explanation-3: -Stephen F. Austin was the most successful of all the empresarios in Texas. In addition to overseeing his father’s original contract, he received additional contracts in 1825, 1827, and 1828, distributing about 4 million acres to 1, 200 families.

Detailed explanation-4: -Allowing for this fact, the largest concentration of Spanish land grants in Texas today is located in the area between the Nueces and Rio Grande rivers. What is today south Texas was then the northern extent of Nuevo Santander, a region the crown entrusted for colonization to José de Escandón y Helguera in 1746.

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