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Power point
10/21/2013 – 10/25/2013
Monday
10/21/2013
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Warm up
ISN 73
• Empresario: The Spanish word for
“contractor”, a person who puts together
business deals
• Title: The legal right to own a piece of
property
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Chapter 5: Colonization of Texas
Moses Austin & Stephen F.
Austin
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ISN 75
• Pass out worksheet “The Austin’s & the Old
300 in Texas”
• Students you will need to fill in the worksheet
based off the next few slides and the lecture I
will give
• The worksheet is for a
GRADE!
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Moses Austin
• Business man who had many failed
ventures in the U.S.A
• Wanted to start fresh in the West
• Granted permission from Spain and given a
sitio (4.428 acre plot of land)
• Officially became a Spanish citizen
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Moses Austin (continued)
• Moses started a bank that failed due to
speculators - (those who buy cheap and sell
high)
• Traveled to Texas to get more land from the
Spanish
• This plan was approved but he got sick on
the voyage back home
• He died on June 10, 1821 but his son
Stephen F. Austin would carry out his plan
for settling Texas
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Stephen F. Austin
• Started out for Texas at 27 years old
• Chose land between the Colorado and Brazos Riversgood for agriculture
• Agriculture: the occupation concerned with cultivating
(to till and prepare land or soil for the growth of crops)
land, raising crops, and feeding, breeding, and raising
livestock; farming
• He began rounding up settlers under the following
conditions:
– Pledge loyalty to Mexico not America
– Become Roman Catholic
– Follow the strict rules of the colony
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Stephen F. Austin’s
Colony and
the Old 300
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Settlement Begins
• Lively – ship that carried settlers and supplies
to the Colorado River
– Sailed on Nov. 20, 1821
• Lively wrecked near Galveston
– Supplies and settlers were lost
• The first settlers brought slaves
• Austin disliked slavery, but colonists would not
come to Texas without them.
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Problems in the Colony
• Austin gone for 1 year
• Drought
• Karankawas – saw colonists as intruders
– Several colonists were killed
• Colony size decreased
• Settlers organized a militia to protect the
colonists from Indian attacks
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The Old Three Hundred
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Call for new settlers
1824 – almost 300 families
1,347 white people
443 slaves
Most colonists were from the Southern
U.S.
• The old 300 are the first 300 families to
TX
• But, only 297 received grants for land
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Women of the Colony
• Jane Long
– Wife of James
Long (filibuster)
– “Mother of Texas”
– Received land
grant in Fort Bend
– Opened a hotel
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Mary Crownover Rabb
1823
9 kids
Travels and
Adventures in Texas
in the 1820’s (book
about her memories
along the Brazos
River)
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Time Out! Recall
• Who were the Old 300?
• What challenges did settlers in Austin’s colony
face?
• Who was known as the “Mother of Texas” and
why?
• What is a militia?
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Life in the Colony
• Women cooked and cleaned
– Build fires
– Make soap
– Made clothes
– Watch kids
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Lived in log cabins with dirt floors
Had to bring everything with you (wagon)
Almost no crime
Peace with neighboring Indians
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San Felipe de Austin
1823 – town created at
heart of colony
Near present-day Sealy
San Felipe de la Garza
(MX Governor) suggested
the name
Called the town San
Felipe
Housed the government
offices of the colony
SFA conducted his
business there
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Overall Achievements of Austin
• Austin had lots of power in Texas
• Helped settlers
• Served as a link between settlers and MX
Gov’t
• Austin wrote…“I owe loyalty and gratitude to
Mexico.”
• Austin won 3 more contracts for more than
900 families
• Most successful Empresario in Texas
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Time Out! Sequencing
Put the following in chronological order:
• The Lively sails from New Orleans.
• Stephen F. Austin travels to Mexico City.
• Jane Long arrives in Austin’s colony.
• Stephen F. Austin founds San Felipe de Austin.
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Colonization Law 1823
• Settlers could get large
amounts of land for cheap
• No Taxes for 6 years then
half for the next 6
• Would have to become
Mexican citizens
• Must be catholic
• No Drunkard
• No idler
• No gambler
• No frontiersman
• Employed empresarios to
settle land (200 families)
• No sale or purchase of
slaves
Colonization Law 1824 76
• No land to be purchased
within 20 leagues of
international border
• Same rules
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