FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
SPANISH COLONIES
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Question
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Mexico hoped to make more Americans Mexican citizens
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To become Christians
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Mexicans did not want to populate Texas themselves
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violent Native attacks were prevalent in Texas
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Detailed explanation-1: -Feeling threatened by the native groups, and worried that the United States would try to take Texas, the Mexican government moved to enact policies to move more settlers into the area to help implement control over the region. The Mexican government worked with empresarios, who operated as land agents in Texas.
Detailed explanation-2: -Land agents called empresarios made the arrangements for bringing settlers to a new colony.
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: -In 1823, Mexico’s authoritarian ruler Agustín de Iturbide enacted a colonization law authorizing the national government to enter into a contract granting land to an “empresario, ” or promoter, who was required to recruit a minimum of two hundred families to settle the grant.