FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
SPANISH COLONIES
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To gain religious freedom
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To build missions and forts
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To search for cities of gold
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To find cheap farmland
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Detailed explanation-1: -The policy of the American government for the sale of unoccupied land within its borders to settlers also, unwittingly, encouraged many Americans to migrate to Mexican Texas after 1821.
Detailed explanation-2: -Americans to Texas, 1820-1845 As early as 1803, Americans settled there. After the Mexican Revolution of 1824, the Mexican government needed settlers to protect it from foreign invasion, and they offered liberal land grants to anyone who would become citizens, accept the Catholic faith, and settle there.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Mexican government encouraged Americans to settle in Texas to prevent border violations form horse thieves and to protect the territory from Native American attacks.
Detailed explanation-4: -Section 107. Against this background, Moses Austin traveled from Missouri to Spanish San Antonio in 1820 to apply for an empresario grant to bring Anglo-American families to Texas.
Detailed explanation-5: -Thousands of Americans, primarily from slave states, flocked to Texas and quickly came to outnumber the Tejanos, the Mexican residents of the region. The soil and climate offered good opportunities to expand slavery and the cotton kingdom. Land was plentiful and offered at generous terms.