FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
SPANISH COLONIES
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Federal Constitution of 1824
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State Colonization Law of 1825
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Grito de Dolores
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Mexican Declaration of Independence
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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.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Constitution of 1824 of the Republic of Mexico provided that each state in the republic should frame its own constitution. The state of Coahuila and the former Spanish province of Texas were combined as the state of Coahuila and Texas.
Detailed explanation-3: -In the hopes that an influx of settlers could control the Indian raids, the government liberalized its immigration policies for the region for the first time, and settlers from the United States were permitted in the colonies for the first time.
Detailed explanation-4: -Answer and Explanation: The government of Mexico offered Americans land in Texas because few Mexicans wanted to settle there. The northern regions of Mexico and the southern regions of Texas were (and still are) very sparsely populated due to lack of water and poor farmland.