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Unit 4 Test Review
7th Grade Social Studies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Why Mexican Settlers Came to Texas | promoted land grants to encourage settlement and begin doing agriculture |
| Why Spanish Settlers Came to Texas | colonize indigenous people through forced assimilation |
| Why Anglo Settlers Came to Texas | Believed in Manifest Destiny to expand west and develop new farmland |
| 1821 | Mexico gained its independence from Spain |
| Describe the land the Americans and Mexicans were able to get in Texas in the 1820s | cheap land that was good for farming |
| Leader of the Old 300 | Stephen F. Austin |
| Leader that helped Moses and Stephen F. Austin | Erasmo Seguin |
| Settlers had to become Catholic, be loyal to Mexico, and have good moral character | State Colonization Law of 1825 |
| What the Mexican government did to get settlers to move to Texas | give empresario land grants to Anglos |
| How Stephen F. Austin chose who would be in his colony | They had to obey the law and become Catholic |
| Description of the Anglo settlements in Texas in the 1800s | permanent ranching and farming communities |
| Stephen F. Austin | brought 300 families and set up a colony between the Brazos and Colorado Rivers |
| Martin de Leon | encouraged Mexican migration to Texas and founded the town of Victoria, Texas |
| Reason why slaves were brought to Texas | to harvest cotton |