Jeopardy

What city was the capital of Coahuila y Tejas?

• Saltillo

Who was the first Texas representative to Saltillo.

• Baron Bastrop

This is a person who brings new settlers to an area?

What is an “empresario”?

This empresario was the father of Stephen F. Austin.

• Who was Moses Austin?

This friend helped Moses Austin become an empresario.

• Who was Baron Bastrop?

This is how Baron Bastrop helped.

He talked to Governor Martinez

Stephen F. Austin raised a militia to fight against

Native Americans

He was the Spanish governor in San Antonio.

Who was Governor Martinez?

This is how Moses Austin died.

• What is pneumonia?

This man took over when Moses Austin died.

Who was Stephen F. Austin?

This man from San Antonio went with Stephen F. Austin to see the governor.

Erasmo Seguin

Stephen F. Austin chose land between these two rivers.

• What are the Colorado and Brazos Rivers?

New settlers in Texas had to adopt this

religion.

What is the Catholic religion?

The first settlers had to be loyal to this country.

What is Spain?

Stephen F. Austin went to this city for a year.

What is Mexico City?

Spain was defeated by this country

• What was Mexico?

How did Mexican independence effect Stephen F. Austin?

He lost his contract to settle Texas.

This is something Stephen F. Austin learned in Mexico City.

How to speak Spanish

This means to measure the boundaries of land.

• What is a survey?

This is where most Texas immigrants came from.

• What is the United States?

This is why settlers came to Texas.

• Land was cheap.

This was the price for an acre of land.

• What is 12.5 cents ?

Austin was permitted to settle this number of

families.

What is 300 families?

These were Stephen F. Austin’s first settlers.

Who were the “Old Three Hundred”?

If a settler married a Mexican woman, the government gave him

More land

This was the name of Stephen F. Austin’s ship.

• What was the “Lively”?

Stephen Austin’scolony had problems with these Indians.

Who are the

Karankawas and

Tonkawas?

This word means a temporary army unit.

•What is a militia ?

One member of the “Old Three Hundred” was the first mother of an

Anglo child in Texas.

Who was Jane Long?

This was the colony’s capital city.

• What was San Felipe de Austin?

Slaves were used in Texas to grow this crop.

What was cotton?

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This man was the 2nd most successful empresario

Who was Green DeWitt?

This empresario brought in 200 families.

Martin deLeon

Centralists believed that power should be concentrated in the …

National government

Stephen F. Austin could deal with different cultures.

He learned Spanish

Colonists came from several countries such as …

The United States, Mexico, Ireland