FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
SPANISH COLONIES
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the peninsulares and criollos
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a person who settles in an area, typically one with no or few previous inhabitants
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a person who sells and rents out buildings and land for clients
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a land agent that agreed to settle a number of people in a given place within a few years &In return, they received large grants of land
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Detailed explanation-1: -Empresario.An empresario was a land agent or land contractor. Under the system used by the Mexican government as a means of colonization (see MEXICAN COLONIZATION LAWS).
Detailed explanation-2: -Empresarios were contractors empowered by the government of Coahuila y Texas to recruit specific numbers of families to the territory. Mexican citizens were preferred as empresarios and as colonists, but the majority of the empresarios were from the United States.
Detailed explanation-3: -Land agents called empresarios made the arrangements for bringing settlers to a new colony. Empresario Stephen F.
Detailed explanation-4: -An empresario (Spanish pronunciation: [em. pɾe. ˈsaɾ. jo]) was a person who had been granted the right to settle on land in exchange for recruiting and taking responsibility for settling the eastern areas of Coahuila y Tejas in the early nineteenth century.