USA HISTORY

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. One of the most famous empresarios, Stephen F.

Detailed explanation-2: -Mexico refused to recognize the Republic of Texas, and intermittent conflicts between the two countries continued into the 1840s. The annexation of Texas as the 28th state of the United States, in 1845, led directly to the Mexican–American War.

Detailed explanation-3: -How did Texas settlers’ view of Mexico and its people contribute to the history of Texas in the 1830s? American slaveholders in Texas distrusted the Mexican government’s reluctant tolerance of slavery and wanted Texas to be a new U.S. slave state.

Detailed explanation-4: -Wanting to defend Texas from United States expansionism and hostile Indians, Mexico continued the Spanish colonization plan after its independence in 1821 by granting contracts to “empresarios, ” land agents who would settle and supervise selected, qualified immigrants.