Empresario (What is an empresario?) Land Grants

Purposes for and methods of settlement

Settlement Chart Draw a 3 column chart in your social studies spiral. Spanish Mexican Anglo Settlement Settlement Settlement Purpose Wanted How they did it Method

Spanish Settlement Purpose ◦ Secure Spanish Control in the New World ◦ Gold, Silver, and Resources  Method  A colony of Spain  Resettled other Spanish Colonists (Canary Islanders)

Spanish Wanted To lay claim to Texas How they did it ◦ Created Missions, Presidios, and Civil Settlements (What is a civil settlement?)

Mexican Settlement Purpose ◦ Increase population in Northern Mexico  Method  Empresario Grants  Supporting towns already in the area  Large Ranches

Mexicans Wanted ◦ Economic opportunities How they did it ◦ Created civil settlements and empresario (what is an empresario?) grants

Anglo Settlement Purpose ◦ Increase population in Texas  Method  Allowed because of the National Colonization Law (What were the colonization laws?)  Empresario Grants  Settled in Northern Texas  Farming Agriculture

Anglos Wanted ◦ Economic Opportunities ◦ New Start ◦ Escape Debt (What is debt?) How they did it ◦ Empresario Grants